Imac showing white power on light, but thats all

early model intel imac, on power on the white light comes on but nothing else, no chime, no noise from hardware etc - just dead. have tried apples smc recommends, no use
Any ideas?
thanks
N

Hi Nick
After re-seating the ram as Steve suggest and it's still the same white light black screen.
Insert the Install disk and startup holding the option key and see if the Startup Manager will let you boot from the install disk.
If so use the article below to assist you in Disk Utilities Repairs from the Install Disk:
[Mac OS X - Using Disk Utility to Repair a Disk|http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810]
Also here is the link to:
[Intel-based Mac: Startup sequence and error codes, symbols|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303363]
Then one question for you, is you profile correct 10.2. ??? I believe 10.4.6 was the version installed in the first Intell iMac's.
Dennis

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