I got this old iMac G3...

My teacher recently has given me an old Blue iMac G3... I am not sure what generation, but he said it stopped working one day out of the blue and he took the hard drive and just ditched it. I have another iMac G3 Lime tray-loading one, and was wondering:

A) Is the Hard Drive in the lime iMac G3 compatible?

B) Any ideas on whats wrong?

C) Is there a way to connect a firewire cable from my MacBook to the iMac to start it up? Or how do I fix this?

I am getting it on Friday, but I want to have a headstart quick.

I will see what I can do. Does Best Buy or Circuit City sell any of the drives needed for an iMac G3?

And if I don't get this to work, can I just scrape the memory atleast and put it in my previous iMac G3, the lime one only has 64 MBs.

Okay, I will give you more info on it when I receive it either tomorrow or Friday. Thanks!

Alright, well I recieved the imac, and it didn't come with a Hard Drive, and the two ram sticks were seperate (One is a kingston, don't know the specs, and the other one says PC133 128 MB.) And while putting in the ram, one of the clicky things that keep the ram sticks on fell off! Not a good start! I manage to still put in the ram, not knowing if they are upside down of not. I than try to atleast turn the thing on with hard drive or not, and all it does is give faint clicky sounds, but no light. This is not a good sign... I than thought of a brilliant idea, I tried to take out my iMac G3 333 MHZ Hard Drive, but one of the screws to it looks like it has been through a shredder! The part where you put in the end of the screwdriver in is completely worn out to the point where it has no grip. I tried for over an hour with different screwdrivers to no avail.

Not a good start! Any ideas?

Alright, well, this morning I got the light to turn on, and it turns on green, monitor still not on, so I put in a OS 9 disk hopefully to boot off of OS 9...


The drive lets me put in the disk, and I try to press and hold down c. The green light keeps getting dimmer, than it keeps on just shutting down.

Bad power supply?

I added the 6 GB Hard Drive from my old iMac 333 mhz running OS 9.2.2.

It does the same thing over and over, it won't spit out my OS 9 disk either. I am thinking maybe it is a bad power supply?

Does the iMac 333 MHZ use the same power supply as this iMac?

thanks for the fast reply.

I tried holding down option, but again, the light turns on, but nothing else. No noises or anything.

Nothing new happened ;(

I have come to a 90% conclusion it is a power supply problem. I will try swapping the PRAM battery quick though.

If it doesn't work, anyone know where I can get a power supply for one of these slot loading? Or can I just swap power supplies?

Thanks for your help everyone!