TPiwowar wrote:
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.
Thanks
I think I had tried that at one point last night, but in any case, it
didn't start it just now when I did it.
I don't know if I dreamed it up or read it somewhere but I just held
down the start button until the light on the front started flashing,
then it let out a long beeep and started!
Just for reference, this it a 10.4 machine.
I used Disk Utility to verify the internal disk and the external
firewire disk and they both check out fine. I had a feeling this was a
logic problem, or something other than hard drive.
Please suggest what next steps to take to find out what went wrong. What
hardware tests? What logs to read?
I guess I'm happy to say that I have problems so seldom that I tend to
forget what to do.
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