OK, so you may recall me mentioning with my eMac, when I was doing a fixup to the hard drive, I accidentally snapped off the connector for the power button off the logic board. Well, we soldered the wires back onto the logic board at the appropriate spot (but not the connector), and then accidentally broke the power button off the retainer ring.
I ordered a new button kit from Apple Palace, but it hasn't arrived yet. Once it does, I will try and put the new button and retainer ring onto the existing cable. If that doesn't work, I may have to try a local repair shop, or the Apple Store as a last resort. Or should I sell the broken eMac on eBay (many computer geeks buy broken computers on eBay for the parts or to do repairs on them, generally they go much cheaper than completely-functional computers) and buy a better model? (Not sure whether to get another eMac or a used iMac G4/G5 or a PowerMac, as money is tight on my part and I can only afford the G4 stuff.)
I tried removing the hard drive on the eMac, putting it in a USB 2.0 enclosure, and booting up from it on one of my college's Fine Arts building's 24-inch iMacs, selecting the power option to "Automatically restart after power failure," but that didn't help.
Any tips/comments/suggestions? I would greatly appreciate this as I feel a little down having to be stuck with Windows for now (even if it's Windows 7, which is better than XP and Vista anyway)
I ordered a new button kit from Apple Palace, but it hasn't arrived yet. Once it does, I will try and put the new button and retainer ring onto the existing cable. If that doesn't work, I may have to try a local repair shop, or the Apple Store as a last resort. Or should I sell the broken eMac on eBay (many computer geeks buy broken computers on eBay for the parts or to do repairs on them, generally they go much cheaper than completely-functional computers) and buy a better model? (Not sure whether to get another eMac or a used iMac G4/G5 or a PowerMac, as money is tight on my part and I can only afford the G4 stuff.)
I tried removing the hard drive on the eMac, putting it in a USB 2.0 enclosure, and booting up from it on one of my college's Fine Arts building's 24-inch iMacs, selecting the power option to "Automatically restart after power failure," but that didn't help.
Any tips/comments/suggestions? I would greatly appreciate this as I feel a little down having to be stuck with Windows for now (even if it's Windows 7, which is better than XP and Vista anyway)