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Hi All
My friend has just given me his Imac to fix !
Anyways, being a pc-nut, and knowing nothing about Macs, I thought I would post here for some help.
Its an iMac G5, with a 2.1Ghz Processor and looks to have 1gb ram, and 250gb hdd, and I think a 20" screen.
Anyways, it was working perfectly, and booting up etc. Then one day it stopped booting up, and now when switched on just hangs with an icon which alternate between the apple smilie logo and a question mark.
Googling tells me that it is looking for a bootup device. I have used the OSX install disks to run the apply hardware test, and that checks out all the devices including the logic board as fine.
When trying to re-install OSX all is fine until it gets to the select volume, and there is no harddrive to install to on the options bit. Even using the disk utilities or hardware profile, no drive appears under ATA, S-ATA etc etc.
Thus my hunch is that the system is not detecting the hard drive. When switching on, I can definitley hear the hard drive spin up.
Transferring my PC knowledge across, is there a CMOS battery ? Would replacing this help ? I have read about resetting the PRAM, would that help ? Should I buy a new hard drive to replace this one ? Any way to get into a Bios type thing ?
All ideas gratefully recieved !
R
Mehul
My friend has just given me his Imac to fix !
Anyways, being a pc-nut, and knowing nothing about Macs, I thought I would post here for some help.
Its an iMac G5, with a 2.1Ghz Processor and looks to have 1gb ram, and 250gb hdd, and I think a 20" screen.
Anyways, it was working perfectly, and booting up etc. Then one day it stopped booting up, and now when switched on just hangs with an icon which alternate between the apple smilie logo and a question mark.
Googling tells me that it is looking for a bootup device. I have used the OSX install disks to run the apply hardware test, and that checks out all the devices including the logic board as fine.
When trying to re-install OSX all is fine until it gets to the select volume, and there is no harddrive to install to on the options bit. Even using the disk utilities or hardware profile, no drive appears under ATA, S-ATA etc etc.
Thus my hunch is that the system is not detecting the hard drive. When switching on, I can definitley hear the hard drive spin up.
Transferring my PC knowledge across, is there a CMOS battery ? Would replacing this help ? I have read about resetting the PRAM, would that help ? Should I buy a new hard drive to replace this one ? Any way to get into a Bios type thing ?
All ideas gratefully recieved !
R
Mehul