Q: eMac start up issues

Hi Dave, no worry about asking even if it's been answered before here... still nearly impossible to find anything you're looking for on any Apple site.

Have you blown the dust out lately, especially the bootom RAM access door?

Can you count the beeps or flashes?

1 beep = no RAM installed

2 beeps = incompatible RAM types

3 beeps = no good banks

4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)

5 beeps = processor is not usable

In addition to the beeps, on some computers the power LED will flash a corresponding number of times plus one. The LED will repeat the sequence after approximately a 5-second pause. The tones are only played once.

Note: In this case, a flash is considered to be 1/4 second or 250 ms or greater in length.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1547

Sadly eMacs are a bear to work on, it's not impossible that blowing the dust out could help, but likely the most "affordable" fix is to pull the Hard drive, &...

http://www.powermax.com/parts/code/PM_CU_EM

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