On Aug 22, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Jordan wrote:
My 2 year old intel iMac won't boot. I got a grey kernel crash
screen yesterday, but it restarted and ran fine in the evening so I
didn't take any time to investigate. This evening it started
strangely, displayed properly, but would not run Eye TV. I tried to
restart it and now all it does is play the audio crescendo, sounds
like it reads the hard drive for a moment and then does nothing
else. No display.
I put the OS DVD in and started, holding C, and it makes noises
like it's reading the DVD but gives up in a few moments.
I tried resetting the NVRAM, but it won't reset it. No beeps.
Instead of starting up with Command-C, do the same with Command-
Option-Shift-Delete held down. If you succeed with startup it would
indicate a hardware problem with the disk drive.
The drive is easy to swap out on that model (if I'm guessing your
model right). Restoring from your TimeMachine backup will get you
back running quickly.
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