Hi,
I've never had/or been given a slot-loading iMac before, so i was rather pleased to receive two today - and my favourite colour, the dark blue models! One has a perfect CRT but lousy case plastics (UV damaged), whilst the other looks good but appears to have a dim CRT.
They're both specced as ...
- 500Mhz G3
- 128MB - 384MB in the other
- Really quiet 40GB HDs
- CD drives - can't tell if any better (no OS installed)
One didn't turn on and emitted my favourite "three beeps", which indicates a RAM problem. Opened up the hood underneath, found a loose 256MB stick of RAM - ten seconds later, 100% working!
With two, I'm probably going to build up a "super" iMac - overclock to 600Mhz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, DVD drive (pretty sure I've got these parts spare), and merge the best plastics. Cool!
JB
I've never had/or been given a slot-loading iMac before, so i was rather pleased to receive two today - and my favourite colour, the dark blue models! One has a perfect CRT but lousy case plastics (UV damaged), whilst the other looks good but appears to have a dim CRT.
They're both specced as ...
- 500Mhz G3
- 128MB - 384MB in the other
- Really quiet 40GB HDs
- CD drives - can't tell if any better (no OS installed)
One didn't turn on and emitted my favourite "three beeps", which indicates a RAM problem. Opened up the hood underneath, found a loose 256MB stick of RAM - ten seconds later, 100% working!
With two, I'm probably going to build up a "super" iMac - overclock to 600Mhz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, DVD drive (pretty sure I've got these parts spare), and merge the best plastics. Cool!
JB