10 white iMacs (A1195) all totally dead together. Do they have a built-in suicide date ?

Hi all
I have 10 white model A1195 iMacs spread throughout 3 different buildings at a school. On returning from 2 weeks break ALL of these machines are TOTALLY DEAD. Power button does nothing at all. Disconnect / reconnect power cord does nothing. Only these machines are affected. All my silver iMacs, and all the old eMacs are working as before. I've had to dig out a bunch of mouldy old eMacs from the dungeons to keep the classroom going! Using same power cords, sockets, k/b's etc. so it's definitely the white machines themselves.
Any ideas out there . . ??
Cheers,
Aunty

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