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Hardware damage is not possible the way you describe.
Could you describe further how is this damage in practise? DVD drive quit reading? Hard drive fused?
How much RAM did / do you have in that iMac?
8.6 as the factory installation is quite some time ago... so it may run there, but not be the fastest.
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