Uh Oh…Anyone had this? My intel imac wont boot. Initially the on/sleep/glowing button Flashed on and off brightly, and nothing on the screen. Now when press the on button, I hear a faint whirring twice inside, but the button just glows really dimly. No Flashing lights…Black screen. Im not liking this. If you’ve heard of this before, my imac had the issue of the vertical lines going down the lcd, that were multiplying slowly…I was saved by external monitor…If anyone has any info on what Ive just hit, that would be great. Luckily I’ve got a powerbook now but theres still shitloads of work on my imac that I dont really want to lose.//scared:-(
Is it possible to read a Mac HD with a LInux box? Or do you have to use another Mac? I suppose if you happen to have an external enclosure laying about, that would probably be the easiest solution, right? Although I’ve been using this iMac for a couple of years, I still feel like a noob…
If you had an Intel Macbook, you could use Target Mode (hold Command-T while connected to your iMac va firewire) to boot the iMac’s OS onto it.
Look into it, Target Mode may work with older Macs.
It saved my life once before I was smart enough to get an external backup.
Hans I guess I might bring this over and try what Joe suggests- Can you take a Firewire to firewire cable home tonight and I’ll see if I can get over there later?
Otherwise it looks like the plan is to crack the case and stick the HD into an external enclosure, and run it off my powerbook. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, let me know? Cheers
The Hard disc inside is just a plain old seagate Hard drive, except the ass end of it looks nothing like a normal HD, that I’ve seen anyway. In these pictures, does anyone recognise this plug, and is it straightforward to insert this into an external enclosure?
Just BTW: target mode dates back to the first firewire Powerbooks and iBooks.
A lot of folks think that Steve Jobs made Apple “cool again”. Apple was pretty damn cool technically without Steve Jobs, they just didn’t do a good job of selling it (or picking the right products to sell).
One little factoid: Apple switched CPU architectures in 1993-4 (680x0 → PowerPC) and had fewer backward compatibility problems than a typical Windows revision (e.g. Windows 3.x → Windows 95) or their own switch from 24-bit to 32-bit memory addressing.
