[Wunk]

Since today our iMac has suddenly stopped booting..

It's been a while since we used the keyboard on it due the dog eating through the USB cord.. (been operating it using VNC)

Today I fixed the USB cable successfully, keyboard worked fine.., but since the mouse was ALSO eaten (damn dog ), I decided to plug in an optical USB mouse to the keyboard.., then things went bad...

It jumped out of powersave mode with a garbled screen, no sweat, let's reboot it..
And that was the last we saw of the iMac..

When we turn it on now, it just plays the chimes theme, and falls silent, power LED stays orange, screen doesn't turn on..

We've reset the NVRAM using the command-option-p-r (that works, so the USB port is still in working order), to no avail..

We replaced the RAM with another stick.., no avail..

I tried hitting the CUDA switch.., still nutn..

I even tried command-option-o-f and then typing blindly:
reset-nvram
reset-all
mac-boot

Nothing happens..

Also tried disconnecting everything non-vital, disconnected all USB devices, disconnected the HD and CD-Rom, even the videoconnector.., but it still doesn't do anything more then playing the chimes thing when we start it up..


Anyone has any clue what could be broken ? (my first guess would be that I fried the main board somehow)

Unfortunately I don't have a battery tester here to test the onboard battery, should an iMac boot without the battery attached or when it's empty ?

[waffffffle]

I'm sorry that I can't be much help. But my iMac rev B just became braindead in the same way, the power light stays amber, and nothing else. I haven't been home enough to fix it but my mom is pissed that she has no computer anymore. If you find out how to fix this please let me know.

[Wunk]

Still no clue.., we managed to get a new iMac 333 for $150.., so we'll prolly end up using our current one for spare parts if I don't find a solution..

I'm not gonne send it in for repairs, I can most likely buy 2 second handed imacs for the money that's gonne cost me..

[waffffffle]

Yea I actually fixed my Rev B iMac by using the logic board from a Rev A that had a dead power supply (and had already lost its CD and hard drive). So now I have an iMac with a dead power supply, broken logic board, and no hard drive or cd drive. I think I might throw it out, or make an iMacquarium.

[Wunk]

Same here, we got an Rev A imac 233 for little money, we took the processorboard, memory and harddisk of the broken one, and put them in there, works like a charm again :-)