Hi Matt, The system showing the grey screen with a no-entry sign, indicates the computer cannot boot the system. I hope it is not what I fear, the most probable cause is a dead hard drive.
If you can boot from the DVD that came with your iMac (as Roger has suggested) or the install DVD of your operating system, by restarting the computer while holding the C key. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. Click the First Aid tab. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions. Select your Mac OS X volume. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk. (If it can, otherwise you will receive a message that the Drive cannot be repaired). Let us know what the message is your receive please. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 10/12/2009, at 3:08 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: > > Hi Matt > > Do you have an external HD or the DVD that came with the iMac, if so try > starting from them and let us know what happens. > > Roger > > On 10/12/2009, at 3:03 PM, Matt Falvey wrote: > >> >> Hi I have just tried to start my intel iMac and it has stopped at a grey >> screen with a no-entry sign across the centre and nothing else happens i.e >> no noise or any signs of booting up. After a while the sign disappears the >> screens becomes a little lighter in colour and it just sits like that. I >> had been using it all morning with out any problems, had not installed >> anything on it nor deleted any applications. >> >> Any ideas as to what may be wrong? >> >> Matt Falvey -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
