g4m3rof1337

Alright.
Someone threw out a grey iMac G3.



I owned one of these awhile ago.

It gives me a beep when powered up, and the power button gives a signal, the screen remains blank.

I do not have a mouse or keyboard plugged in, I assume a PC kind would work.



If I can not get this to work, what do you recommend I do.

Besides, throwing it out, or selling it.



Thanks.

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paratwa

What else would you want to do with it if it does not work?

You could donate it.

g4m3rof1337

I was thinking mod wise, opening it up, putting new parts in there, using it as a PC.

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Nevakonaza

maybe the hard drive is dead?

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spanky

I'd bust the screen open, poor gasoline in it, and send it to it's grave.

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tlarkin

A beep indicates an error on POST. Take out the memory and try powering it up with one stick at a time and see if it is bad memory. Also, get yourself an apple keyboard because there are keyboard commands you can do to reset things firmware level wise.

If it is the model where the RAM slot is on the bottom, open it up and look for the PMU button, which is a silver box with a black button on top of it usually located around the battery. Unplug power and press and hold it for approximately one second, no longer no shorter. Leave it sitting unplugged for a few moments then plug it back in and power it back up.

My first guess is unseated or bad RAM. Reset the PMU next to see if it is power management.

oscaryu1

Memory, GFX, or motherboard.

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paratwa

I wonder what kind of surprises there will be on the Hard drive. If the hard drive is even there that is. Maybe the OS was wiped before they tossed it.

tlarkin

Well, it gets a bit different with those machines. You see, there is the main logic board which has the CPU, the mother board, the GPU, and the chipset all as one part. Then there is the PAV board (most commonly failed part) which is the Power Analog Video board. That part basically takes the video signal from the GPU and directly runs it into the CRT, the board also supplies power to all the machine and to the CRT itself. The DC board (down converter) converts power down to spec for the logic board, since the PAV board and CRT needs different voltages. Those iMacs are engineer by some genius on acid is all I can say. Because it makes no sense, they cram 50lbs of parts in a 15lb case, and who ever engineered has to be a very smart person to fit it all together like that.

I have probably repaired over 1,000 of those iMacs in my life time easily. Several years back when they first came out I worked for an AASP and we were like the only one in town. So, I repaired everyone's iMacs, even businesses iMac's because their IT staff didn't know mac at all. I can probably take one of those apart screw for screw in my sleep and put it all back together with both hands tied behind my back while eating a slice of pizza, because I have had to take so many of them apart.

paratwa

There you go g4m3rof1337. I bet he even has a few parts laying around you could talk out of him.