First post, by TheAbandonwareGuy
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For some reason my Bondi Blue iMac won't boot. Normally I would think i was sold a bad PC.
But the lady i bought this from showed me it turned on running what i believe was OS X 10.2
Now, here's where I (think) the issue occured. The lady unplugged it from the wall while running.
As it sits it doesnt show anything that makes me think it has life. No power light, no electric sounds, no CRT power up sounds, no chime. Nothing.
I've tried holding the damn power button in, i've tried quick press, hard press, everything.
So somewhere between the place i met and my house (20 miles, i had it secured in my vehicle during transported and i carried it by the carrying handle) something has caused this.
I was very careful not to cause any big bumps or knock it into anything carrying it.
As far as i can tell there are 3 possibiltys:
It needs a CUDA reset (Not sure how to do that, but appears to require disassembly)
It needs a PVRAM battery (Costs money, but fixable)
The power flyback failed (Its a big paper weight)
I'm not a mac expert. Could somebody who has more mac experience point me in the right starting direction? I'm hoping its not a flyback failure (wouldn't really make sense but either way it would be the death of the machine for good). Right now I'm just going to let it sit for 12 hours while i research the issue.
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