Aqua-Soft ForumsWell I finaly had to shoot my Rev.A iMac in the head. The IDE controller died in it and that spells its doom. Its been a good friend for over 3 years even with all its quirks and there were a few. The monitor was never bright enough until I figured out how to adjust it myself internaly. The quasie notebook/cheapo CD Drive died almost 2 years ago witch made getting new installs of OS X a new adventure in hell. I just finally got OS X 10.2 installed and all tweaked when things started acting screwy again. Like the hard drive kept spining up and down. I thouhgt it might be the drive so a swaped it out but it still happened. So I tried useing a notebook hard drive and that worked for about 2 months and then tonight smoke came from the top of the vent and that as they say was that. So I have pulled the cup card out with the memory and pulled out the hard drive as well, kept the keyboard and mouse and I took it for a walk out to the dumpster. I am sure there will be a few people who will see it and say ooh and iMac lets get it. But there in for a suprise. I am now gong to find another one if I can for the right price. Wish me luck. Now I just have my PC and a couple of much older Macs. 
My Imac Died!
You poor guy. 
-You should have kept the casing and made a pc case mod with the iMac casing. That would be soo coo. hehe
Happy mac hunting in the future. 
Cheers
hey impulse man, listen to me, you wanna get your mac safe and being able to check the lowest level transistor in your motherboard, get TECHTOOS PRO
My imac died recently and i was thinking the harddrive was f'd up. So after reinstalling and realizing its not the HD, tech tool pro found that actually one of the memory chips was burned out. This is a unique program and it saved me tons of cash to send my imac to a lab in order to see whats up w/ it.
You must have that software if you have a MAC.
TRUST ME on this.
GOKU.
Well I do have the software but it does absolutly no good if you have no way of booting anything. No CD no HD. I even tried a USB floppy and ZIP. No go. I tried changing the memory out and that had no effect either. As I had said the IDE chanel had been acting funcky for over the last few months and with the fact the CD drive was long dead I just couldn't see paying to have it repaired. I am sure it would have cost way to much for as old as it was. I do have a PowerTower Pro with a G3 card in it and I can run OSX 10.1 on it but I can't get OS X 10.2 to install on the SCSI drives. I did have an IDE PCI card and I could run 10.2 on it with IDE drives but I had to return the card to my friend so that was that. The G3 card also has a few problems from time to time but thats normal for Power Computings motherboards or so I have read. So I will just have to save up for a newer Mac of some kind.
As for converting the iMac into a PC. I thought about it but in the end the amount of moding and trying to get the monitor to kick on would just be a hassel. I was thinking of putting in one of those little ITX motherboards but space is very tihgt in there. I have built PCs into several Mac enclosers before. I have installed a MicroATX motherboard into both a PowerMac 8500 and a 7200 cases. I have a PowerMAc 9500 full tower case that is next in my plans.
I am also going to take a Power Mac 6100( the pizza box mac ) and build an ITX motherboard into it for a entertainment/browser PC for the home entertainment center. Its the perfect size for this and when painted black it looks like a nice piece of stereo equipment. Sounds like fun.
Originally posted by impulseman36@Jan 15 2003, 07:19 PMAs for converting the iMac into a PC. I thought about it but in the end the amount of moding and trying to get the monitor to kick on would just be a hassel. I was thinking of putting in one of those little ITX motherboards but space is very tihgt in there. I have built PCs into several Mac enclosers before. I have installed a MicroATX motherboard into both a PowerMac 8500 and a 7200 cases. I have a PowerMAc 9500 full tower case that is next in my plans.
I am also going to take a Power Mac 6100( the pizza box mac ) and build an ITX motherboard into it for a entertainment/browser PC for the home entertainment center. Its the perfect size for this and when painted black it looks like a nice piece of stereo equipment. Sounds like fun.
Cool. -Tell us how it goes.
Cheers.
If you send it to me, I will dominate it and spank it for being naughty and it *will* work again. 
As I said I had walked it to the dumpster. Its long gone. Before I took it out I did some mesuring and the ITX motherboard would have fit but trying to power it and getting a CD drive in there would have been way beyond what I felt it would be worth. I will stick to hacking the desktop and tower cases. I am thinking of putting up a site that documents my adventures in Macintosh to PC case hacking.