[HM] iMac woes

[Clive Ross]

Try cleaning the lens with a CD lens cleaning disk, if that doesn't 
work you may need to replace the drive
On 10/03/2005, at 4:47 PM, Jim Norman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to rescue my daughter's G3 333MHz iMac; it is no longer 
> recognising CDs.  It is running System 9.0.4 with 192 Mb RAM.  It is 
> the tray loading CD version.
>
> I put a disk in and I can hear it spinning but it doesn't show on the 
> desktop.  I cannot get it to start from the system CD while holding 
> down the 'C' key.
> I have checked the Extensions folder and the CD/DVD driver is 
> installed and enabled.
>
> I've tried zapping the PRAM to no effect.  Any other suggestions?
>
> Jim
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