IMAC won't boot

trust_1, on Friday April 4, 2008 01:17:17 PM

Hello,
A family friend just landed me in this. Her son's iMac won't boot. When the power button is pressed there is a small flicker in the lower left corner and there is a sound as if the computer is trying to access the cd-drive. Then the sound stops and the power button just goes green. Nothing happens again. Meanwhile there are no startup disks.
As far as I can see from the base of the computer, these are the specs:
350MHz/512K L2/64MB/6GB/24CD/56K
Any help would be greatly appreciated, before the computer is dumped.

Thanks

Configuration: Windows XP
Internet Explorer 6.0

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honeyho3, on Friday April 4, 2008 03:08:05 PM

hai

I would first get a hold of the system install disks for that model. or any MAC OS 8.6 or OS 9 install CD will do see if it'll boot.

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