Once and a while I like messing around with my iMac g4 and today I had installed Sorbet Leopard and was running the maintenance script and had left for a bit. When I returned I saw the script message saying to restart by pressing and holding the power button or pressing restart. That's when I noticed I couldn't move the cursor and the keyboard stopped working. So I did a force restart and it no longer boots. I hear the chime, the screen flashes briefly, but remains black. I don't hear the hard drive initiating either. I tried doing the NVRAM reset thing, holding cmd option p r for about 20 seconds but nothing happened. I've also pressed the PMU reset button under the service panel but that didn't work either. Computer beeps once if I have no RAM installed, so at least that works. I'm assuming if the hard drive were to die, I would at least see a screen with an error message? What could be the problem?
There's a solid red light on underneath the service panel when the computer is on. The one case/cpu fan does spin.
If it matters, I had originally removed the PRAM battery because if I put the computer back into storage I didn't want the chance of it leaking since it's the original battery. I did put the battery back in while troubleshooting but that didn't change anything.
There's a solid red light on underneath the service panel when the computer is on. The one case/cpu fan does spin.
If it matters, I had originally removed the PRAM battery because if I put the computer back into storage I didn't want the chance of it leaking since it's the original battery. I did put the battery back in while troubleshooting but that didn't change anything.