1 Why won’t my iMac fully boot?
My iMac will come on with the Apple logo a spinning wheel and a loading bar. The bar takes around 30 minutes to fill and once it finally finishes the wheel keeps spinning for a couple seconds and then the whole thing shuts down and I have to start again. What do I do? Also when I was trying to work on it I accidentally screwed up something and now the lcd has a red/pink color. Any idea what that could be?
edit: Apple told me the first problem is a hardware problem but I’m not sure what the problem is because I haven’t been able to run diagnostic and I can’t install Mac OS on a new hdd. I think the cd drive might be bad not sure tho.
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Are you able to get into Safe Mode? Press and hold the Shift (⇧) key when you reboot.
Reference: Mac startup key combinations
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Dan crwdne2934271:0
When I hold shift it does the same thing as before.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Isaac crwdne2934271:0
@mrcrazy - Lets try this try booting up in Target Disk Mode holding the T key. Does that work? You should see a FireWire Icon on the screen.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Dan crwdne2934271:0
Same issue with me !!
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