You are reading a single comment by @M_V and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
salad
lynx
@M_V
My late 2008 iMac has been sitting in its box for the 18-24 months since I got a pc.
It was working albeit slowly when I put it away but I just recently I made some space in the spare room so got it back out and it wouldn’t start up, just made 3 loud beeps, pause & repeat when I tried to power it up.
Google suggested a problem with the ram (which I’d upgraded to 2x 2gb cards) so I put the original 1gb cards back in and it worked for a couple days but now it gets to the loading screen (grey, Apple logo with progress bar underneath) and when the bar is about 1/3 the way along, it just powers itself down.
Terminal?
Don’t really want to spend much/anything on it, I only got it back out as there’s space in there for a printer to be set up permanently rather than keptbin the cupboard and brought out as needed as I do now. Thought I could also use it for music and stuff when I’m working on the spare room but I also have a laptop which can serve this purpose so maybe I’m best putting the iMac on eBay as spares/repairs. I think I deleted everything off it when I went over to the pc but I might be signed into google and outlook and stuff on it. Obviously can’t check as I can’t power it up but if someone repairs it...