[oldimac]

Hello all,
I've got an old imac 233 running OS 9.2 (I think) most certainly not X. Anyhow, the monitor was on its way out for about a year and finally died the other day. From what I've read here and elsewhere it sounds like the flyback transformer, as the machine made some loud snapping sounds over the last year. One day it just quit. The machine still starts and runs and makes all of the appropriate sounds, but the display is blank. I ordered the mac monitor cable convertor and cannot seem to get anything happening when I hook an external monitor to it. The adaptor I got has ten switches on it with all sorts of resolution/sync settings, so I'm wondering if this might have something to do with it. I'm plugging it into a 19 inch Samsung LCD. Does anyone out there have any ideas on how I can make this work? I would really like to get my digital photos off of this machine before I retire it.

Also, does anyone know how difficult it would be to take the HD out of the mac and install it in an external case so that I could plug it into a PC? Would this even be possible?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[JKT]

Take a look at the various links to service manuals for the first gen iMacs in this thread. Removing the hard drive is pretty easy. Incidentally, the person who started the thread had the exact same issue and appears to have solved it using some form of adaptor. The native resolution of the iMac is 1024x768 (though I forget the Hz... 60??) so I would try using that setting on yours to see if you can get it to work. Other than suggesting that, I haven't the foggiest what to do.