Strange imac g3

[Lololobolosse]

I just got an imac g3 dv but it's strange it's an m5521 but it's normaly 350mhz for the m5521 but mine is a 400mhz with the daughter board for the firewire and a dvd drive.

Sorry if i made mistakes my english is not really good.

 

[California]

I just got an imac g3 dv but it's strange it's an m5521 but it's normaly 350mhz for the m5521 but mine is a 400mhz with the daughter board for the firewire and a dvd drive.

Sorry if i made mistakes my english is not really good.

Not strange. It's just the 400MHZ DV. I had one. If the DVD drive works all the better. It actually played movies in Tiger pretty decently.

 

[California]

Not strange. It's just the 400MHZ DV. I had one. If the DVD drive works all the better. It actually played movies in Tiger pretty decently, especially if your speakers are still good.

 

[Lololobolosse]

Thanks and it just repaire by itself the crt was making strange noise and not turning on but a strange image started to be on the screen and restart after restart the imac repair by itself and i got it for 15bucks not working

 

[Lololobolosse]

And did it's a rare model and then how it worth in working condition with the original keyboard mouse and power cable ?

 

[California]

I'm not sure it is a rare model except if it has a working DVD drive, which I recall are difficult to find and difficult to replace with newer optical drives that are much smaller. If you are asking if it is worth anything, I have no idea. I believe they were the beginning of the updated iMac G3 firewire design, which was slightly more streamlined than the iMac G3's without firewire and a tray loading cd player, plus better graphics/video card.

 

[Lololobolosse]

I'm not sure it is a rare model except if it has a working DVD drive, which I recall are difficult to find and difficult to replace with newer optical drives that are much smaller. If you are asking if it is worth anything, I have no idea. I believe they were the beginning of the updated iMac G3 firewire design, which was slightly more streamlined than the iMac G3's without firewire and a tray loading cd player, plus better graphics/video card.

Yes the dvd player isbworking but why it's only the dvd player that have problem loading and ejecting discs ?

 

[California]

Yes the dvd player isbworking but why it's only the dvd player that have problem loading and ejecting discs ?

Yes, these were poorly made drives. Back in the day, there were work-around solutions using standard size "superdrives" or smaller cd/cdr/dvd/dvdr units wedged inside the iMac G3 case. Go back fifteen years on this site and you may find some solutions.