[undotwa]

Specifications:

iMac 'Blueberry' (1999) 400 MHz DVD
128 MB RAM, 10 GB HD
0S 9.1

Diagnosis: Makes long low pitch beep sound, hard drive doesn't startup up, monitor doesn't turn on, however power light flashes an orange colour to green and continues to flash. Nothing else happens.

It's weird, working fine, then bam, gone? Doesn't even make a normal Mac OS 'bong' just beeeeep. What is wrong?

[undotwa]

Well I think I've found what the problem is:

The analogue board has gone Costs bloody $1400 AU to fix, no point. Guess what I'll have to do is just throw the machine out.

Today, I have lost:

1 PowerBook 1400cs (Screen Smashed)
1 iMac 233 MHz (logic board fried)
1 iMac 400 MHz (analogue board fried)

Sad day for me. Only an iMac 500 MHz left...

[awaspaas]

Tried eBay for an analog board?

[Mac Zealot]

Originally posted by undotwa:
Well I think I've found what the problem is:

The analogue board has gone Costs bloody $1400 AU to fix, no point. Guess what I'll have to do is just throw the machine out.

Today, I have lost:

1 PowerBook 1400cs (Screen Smashed)
1 iMac 233 MHz (logic board fried)
1 iMac 400 MHz (analogue board fried)

Sad day for me. Only an iMac 500 MHz left...

why don't you stick the analog board from the 233 into the 400?

Or is this even possible?

[Captain Obvious]

Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
why don't you stick the analog board from the 233 into the 400?

Or is this even possible?

Not even close to possible. They aren't wired the same nor would it fot.

[Rodster]

If you need Apple parts you could try http://processor.com/ , there you'll find a list of Third Party Parts Resellers. When I did Third Party Repairs I used them alot. You'll find parts cheap and some of the vendors even provide tech support.

Good Luck !

[vmarks]

The long low beep is not the analog board.

One beep means that no RAM is installed or detected.
Re-install your RAM.

[carnagex2000]

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Internal Use Only

Affected Products:
iMac (Slot-Loading)
iMac (Summer 2000)
iMac (Early 2001)
iMac (Summer 2001)

Solution

DANGER! This procedure exposes you to high voltages that can result in death or serious injury. DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS PROCEDURE IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN CERTIFIED AS AN APPLE-AUTHORIZED TECHNICIAN.

Follow the steps below to solve the problem.

Do you hear one error beep at startup?

1. Make sure the DRAM are PC-100 SDRAM. Reseat the SDRAM and try again.

2. If no SDRAM is present, install a known-good PC-100 SDRAM and try again.

3. If DRAM is present, replace DIMM one at a time with known-good PC-100 SDRAM.


Do you hear two error beeps at startup?
Verify that only SDRAM PC-100 DIMMs are installed. The iMac ships with PC-100 SDRAM memory and is not compatible with EDO DIMMs.

Do you hear three error beeps at startup?
Replace the existing SDRAM one DIMM at a time with known-good PC-100 SDRAM.

Do you hear four or five error beeps at startup?
Replace the logic board.


(taken from my applecare tech training documents)