Chosen Solution
I have a late 2006 iMac with a power light that blinks and will not boot up. I had disassembled it to check the camera connections and get the part number off the camera board. Prior putting the front bezel back on I powered it up to ensure it worked. It did not work. The only other thing I did was to remove and reinstall the memory cards, same memory installed. Any help would be appreciated.
The blinking light usually means that it has a RAM problem. Try reseating your RAM one stick at a time.
Power On Self Test (POST) Intel-based Macintosh computers such as the iMac (20-inch Late 2006) rely on a combination of tones and blinking LEDs to display Power On Self Test (POST) error codes. If the computer detects out-of-specification memory or no RAM installed, the screen will be black and the power LED on the front of the computer will blink once a second to indicate bad or no RAM. Bad RAM can include physically damaged, the incorrect type, or not present. If the RAM is good enough to pass the POST test but it is marginal and cannot be used by the operating system, the computer will show a gray screen, three tones will sound and the power LED on the front of the computer will blink three times, pause, and repeat until the computer is turned off. The solution to both these situations is to install known good memory.
i believe your ram is in need of being reseated, pull out the ram, push it in as far as you can, then close the side holders, hope this helps
I think it is the ram. Open up the ram bezel, remove the ram by pushing both metal ram locks up and towards each other and remove the ram. Lightly apply some wd-40 on both ram slots and on the gold puns on the ram cards, then reinsert the ram.
Hi, I have a computer in parts right now, it stopped working and had a broken connected, a “fox conn cable that runs to the internal hard drive which has been removed.. Now it has to cables for the internal one broke and the other I removed. While tearing apart my ps,3"” power surge blew it out, infinite blinking light off death..?? I noticed the battery was a 3volt same as the Panasonic inside the Mac, ps3 is newer So I figured would fit and work tried to install after looking and comparing, just won’t sit where it should. Decided to leave original in so placed it back now it won’t stay on… Keeps falling out. Tried tape and still won’t stay firm. CPU now has blinking light after slow start and then speeds up. Could be due to aftermarket fan speed app… Help? Tried keyboard resets.. Any other answers?
