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Try holding c down after you have turned machine on Should then boot from Cdrom. You then could try the utils on disk to try to repair your original OS on the drive.

Thanks for the suggestion of going to macsales.com. As they are selling Pioneer DVR-111D for G4 imac.So have good chance of getting drive that will fit now. Wont be getting it from macsales.com as im in the UK.

Have a imac G4 here and the DVD writer has gone faulty. Have tested the drive on a PC and the same fault is present it wont see any disks.Did replace it with another used Pioneer but found it to be faulty as it sees disks but has problems copying the data from the disk the data just does not...

Your right there is just that something about the imac G4 range.Never thought I would own one.Not Keen on the imac G5 range looks though.But does look great sitting on desk at home next to XBox 360. MS looking at Apple again to get its idea from .(so whats different).

Thanks for any advice with the above machine.Has been replaced now by machine below. Got imac G4 800mhz 15" cheap due to DVD/CD Drive Failure and have now moved to this machine working pretty good after I replaced DVD/Cdrom drive and upgraded SDram.

Is it possible to boot machine from external USB CDrom drive.To reinstall OS ?

The dismantling is different from my version of imac's to your emac after seeing this link http://www.wilko.com/emac/ Only you know if you feel safe doing this if you do not . Then think you should do what previous post suggested and get someone to do it for you.

Dont scrap machine just because the CD drive wont work.(Im using an Imac A 233Mhz with the monitor faulty just using external monitor dont get me wrong would pref to use internal monitor and Will be as soon as I can source bits to get it up and running cheap enough I will). If you feel brave...

Wanted to upgrade drive in machine with bigger drive.Had no restore disks as wouldnt boot with 8.0 so here is what worked for me.Had to use a Pc though. 1) Connected 20GB drive to mac and booted with 8.6 update disk and prep disk. 2) Connected Mac drive (IDE) to PC IDE channel connected New...

4Mb so-dimm was not making connection in socket.What looks like a glue that had been holding stick had come away. Once stick was secured in place imac detected extra video memory.

Just couldnt see any where in OS where system would show graphics memory installed.Even though I know it has the 4Mb extra memory expansion. Well after updating imac firmware (needed to install for OS update) and installing 8.6 update Sytem profiler now also displays the graphics card...

System profiler displays the graphics card detected but no infomation about memory installed on Card. The game demos I was trying where old demo's Tomb Raider,Unreal Tournament and Quake.Also tried Myth II. Myth works Ok The others just seem to hang system.No error messages just...

Have brought an imac 233mhz which as faulty display so am running it on external monitor. Is there a program I can use to confirm the 6MB Ram for the onboard video is being recognized. As I am having problems getting some game demos to run on imac that run ok on my Power Mac 7100 with Nubus...

Thank you for the help after looking around the internet have found it is possible to remove the video cable from the back of the Imac mortherboard. Then connect an external monitor this then stops the internal monitor trying to startup. So Imac is now working on external monitor need now to...

Been using a power Mac 7100 with G3 accelerator and Just got hold of an Imac original version B thats not working (cheap). What it does On power up machine power button is red imac then makes a bong noise and then as power button turns green imac powers down like protection on monitor has...