Imac g3 Problem...HELP!

Just wondering if any of you brilliant techy people out there can help me determine what's wrong with my imac??
When I press the power button it makes a faint squeeky noise thru the speakers & that's about it.

HELP!

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[Chowder853]

actually PPC macs can run windows,there are some videos that show it

[ajwgeek]

this happened to my windows PC before. I pressed and held the PWR button for 3 secs then let go then held for 10 secs and i started. Otherwise get a new motherboard and power supply of ebay :D

[BLASR24]

It's the PRAM battery. Sometimes if you leave the things on too long they will shut off because it died. Look on apple disscussions for the directions. Keep in mind: it is not broken!

[EEEE1110lol]

Check inside you might need to get another one or replace the power supply or motherboard

[123RZ456]

i couldn't reinstall mac os or linux, it ejected automatically

[Bluedino549]

@123RZ456 Then reinstall Mac OS as it cannot find the system.

[123RZ456]

my mac wasn't like that, my mac shows a stupid floppy disk with a flashing question mark.

[1972jeepcommando]

I think that that's the end of that i mac. but you can buy another one on ebay for $50 plus shiping and move the harddrive from the old one to the new one. So you can still have all the files on the new one.

[EEEE1110lol]

its eather the power supply or the power cord

i had a pc once and it turned on then turn off it was the power cord

[debiani3866]

@Chowder853 PowerPC Macs can run windows in emulation, not natively because windows (NT 3.51 i believe was the only version compiled for powerpc) was not built for powerpc processors.

[lindsaymobil22]

Your Power supply might have died, or the logic board is fucked

[454Logan]

my imac was made in 1999.