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G3 help
- Thread starter G3 Ownz
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Erm... can you be more descriptive? Are you sure there were no loose power or drive cables after your attempted fix? When you say it doesn't turn on, what exactly happens? Does the power light come on? Does the drive spin up? Does the fan spin up? Do you get as far as a grey (or whatever) screen on the display?
For that matter, is this a PowerMac or an iMac?
For that matter, is this a PowerMac or an iMac?
ummm no nothing happens at all, i hold the power, and absulutly nothing happens, it is a imac, ive been back in her about 21 times just making sure the cables are tight, i did notice there is a tiny batery in there by the trey drive does that have to do anything?
Please use complete sentences... none of us are mind readers.
Do you mean a battery like a watch battery? When you say "in there by the trey drive," is it seated in a battery mount, or just sitting in the case?
There's a clock battery in the computer... I am having trouble finding you a link on where the mount for it is on the motherboard, but it should be pretty obvious.If it's dead, you can see this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86181
here is the picture, this is my first imac so i really dont no the specs or anything.
http://i14.tinypic.com/66txsfb.jpg
http://i14.tinypic.com/66txsfb.jpg
Hmmm, I ran across a few threads here and there, but they seem to say kind of random and different things. I'm not sure. Some suggestions they make...and I'm not saying these make complete sense to me:
Unplug the power cable, Pull the RAM out and also that backup battery you were talking about; wait a minute and put them back in, and then try restarting.
I don't understand what the pulling the RAM part has to do with anything, but I think the idea of this is to force a PRAM reset when you can't do it from the keyboard.
Sorry, and good luck!
Unplug the power cable, Pull the RAM out and also that backup battery you were talking about; wait a minute and put them back in, and then try restarting.
I don't understand what the pulling the RAM part has to do with anything, but I think the idea of this is to force a PRAM reset when you can't do it from the keyboard.
Sorry, and good luck!