Same old Bondi blue FBT story, but with a twist?

Hi.
I've been all over the internet trying to understand the FBT workarounds for an old Rev A Imac and I apologize in advance if this is a redundant question.
I must admit I'm now a little confused. I think the problem with the computer is a bad FBT. When I press the power button, I get an amber light, chime, spin up and then a pop and it shuts down. When I connect an external apple monitor to it, it boots right up. Here's the kink-when I connect a PC VGA monitor through an adapter (I've tried two different adapters and three different monitors), the light stays amber and no chime. Finally, when I disconnect the external monitor and boot, with no monitor connected (just the adapter plugged into the back of the bondi) wait for the chime, and then connect the external monitor, all is well and it boots. I want to remove the motherboard and power supply from the case and just make a new case with an external monitor. Any suggestions on what this might be? Reset PRAM? Bad PRAM battery?No hope at all? The power button seems to remain amber the whole time. Should it turn green or some other color at some point?
PS-This was all done with the original OS 8.x software on the machine...
Thanks in advance!!
Biokemyst
Message was edited by: Biokemyst

These forums have many more readers than posters. Some readers would be ready, willing and able to answer your question, but they may not be native speakers of English. When you use acronyms, like FBT, but do not define them, readers may have trouble understanding.
When I connect an external apple monitor to it, it boots right up.
Then it is working fine. The iMac power supply uses the Flyback transformer to generate various Voltages used to power Digital Logic inside the iMac. If the Flyback Transformer were not working, you would not get to the software-generated chime that indicates booting is likely.
when I connect a VGA monitor through an adapter (I've tried two different adapters and three different monitors), the light stays amber and no chime.
Then your adapters are not the right ones for that Mac. It is very common for the wrong adapter to cause no green light and no picture.
The adapters do two jobs:
1) they shuffle the signals around to the right pins so that you can get a picture on the display.
2) they provide a code on pins 4, 7, and 10 that tells the Mac what display is attached, thus limiting the resolutions that the Mac will allow. On later Macs they can tell the Mac to look for Digital Data Channel information from the Display.
Do you get a good boot up and a picture on the internal display if you boot from a System CD appropriate for that Mac? This test bypasses your Hard Drive and all the software on it, effectively cutting the problem into Hardware vs. Software.
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To Apple Discussions!
The following Articles should be helpful:
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60335 Mac OS 8.6: Installing Mac OS 8.6
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