Just purchased a Bondi iMac for $9.00 will not start...HELP!

[punkmac]

😀 spotlight would be sooooo helpful, I can't find on thing on that machine.

Where in PA are you?

Spotlight does rock. I am right outside Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area.

About 10 mins away from NJ.


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[punkmac]

OP: Richmon said it sounds like the boot ROM. Couldn't be that much $ on eBay. They're socketed, right?

If nothing else, you could hide out a bit and prowl eBay for a Sonnet Harmoni board. That'd get that iMac into good, functional shape.



You could run Linux on it. Don't think X11 would be that good, but you could always turn it into an Ampache server for your music (my favorite idea), an Apache webserver, get good with your UNIX-y CLI skills, if you aren't already (always a nice bonus for OS X)...

Any reasonably modern computer can be useful for something. I'm not much for games and hate the classic OSes, but you could have a lot of fun with it if you want to get your feet wet.

Yes it does sound like the boot ROM, and yes it is socketed, and they are 2 SO-DIMMS, and yes, I should think about the upgrade card. Whew! I really Appreciate this blast of ideas!

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[punkmac]

price?

I have a Sonnet Harmoni board that I don't know what to do with; no longer have a pre firewire iMac.

I like these old machines. If you want to buy the Harmoni card from me (i bought it last year from someone on MR) let me know. It adds firewire and I think bumps you up to 600mhz.

I don't know how it would affect the boot rom or whatever is wrong with your machine, though. But again let me add that I got a friend's Bondi 233 running with Panther on 384mbs and got her to get a new deskstar 80 gig 7200 in there and it runs great. You can always pull out the ram and hard drive when you are done.

What would you be asking for something like that?

 

[ReanimationLP]

These Bondi macs are kinda slow unless you up the RAM to at LEAST 384 MB in OSX.

I had one, upped it to 256, and then sold it off 2 years ago.

I know a store near my area called PC Retro sells them with 288 MB of RAM completely refurbed for 59.99.

Not a bad deal if I do say so myself. 😉

 

[California]

What would you be asking for something like that?

I think i paid something like seventy five bucks so half that or less than half would be thirty five bucks. Let's say 35USD shipped. But I can't promise anything other than I think they have very long warranties on them, you'd have to call Sonnet when you get it to check. I also think that they retail or retailed for 299 at one time so it is a deal.

 

[ReanimationLP]

I think i paid something like seventy five bucks so half that or less than half would be thirty five bucks. Let's say 35USD shipped. But I can't promise anything other than I think they have very long warranties on them, you'd have to call Sonnet when you get it to check. I also think that they retail or retailed for 299 at one time so it is a deal.

Thats dirt cheap for that card.

I think Sonnet still sells em for 200.

 

[punkmac]

wow!

I think i paid something like seventy five bucks so half that or less than half would be thirty five bucks. Let's say 35USD shipped. But I can't promise anything other than I think they have very long warranties on them, you'd have to call Sonnet when you get it to check. I also think that they retail or retailed for 299 at one time so it is a deal.

That sounds like a great deal! I wonder if that includes a new boot ROM on the processor card? It would have to come with something to tell it to "see" the firewire.

I read also that they were only supported up to 10.3.9. I have Tiger (box) and Jaguar from my other iMac. I would like to update to one of these of course. Firewire would be the only way(Target Disk Mode) or have Apple send me the CD version of Tiger.

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[punkmac]

These Bondi macs are kinda slow unless you up the RAM to at LEAST 384 MB in OSX.

I had one, upped it to 256, and then sold it off 2 years ago.

I know a store near my area called PC Retro sells them with 288 MB of RAM completely refurbed for 59.99.

Not a bad deal if I do say so myself. 😉

60 bucks! I could pick out one for each family member and my Mom!

Plus shipping of course or make a trip to awesome Glen Burnie.

 

[SiggySputnik]

Sounds like OLOD to Me

That's the Orange Light of Death. This usually happens (and happened to me a few years ago) when your A/V board and Flyback transformer bomb on your machine. One sure way to test this is to open the back of your iMac and plug an external monitor into the Video Connector. This is just as easy as attaching a monitor to a normal PC Video connecter. If the computer boots up with the external monitor, you definitely have the OLOD. Your best bet for getting this to work is to either put up with having the external monitor connected at all times, with the iMac's monitor dead, or pull it apart and build yourself one of the converted ones that have guides online. That's it!