All I had tried previously was resetting the PRAM but this morning I did as you suggested with the Disk Utility. It repaired permissions and indicated that the disk needed repairing, which I subsequently did. Cross fingers now! Regards Susan
On Feb 21, 11:21 am, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I have an Intel iMac (2006 model) and it started doing the same thing. > > Then it started slowing down, hanging and panicking. Then the internal hard > drive stopped being recognised. Then it gave up the ghost permanently. > > The DC board burnt out - taking the hard drive and logic board with it. > > It may not be the case for you. Have you tried checking the disc in disk > utility? repair permissions and verify disc. Also check the RAM is seated > properly. > > Simon > > --- > > I haven't noticed any other oddities with this machine: no panics or > slow running. It is a 20-incher from mid 2007 and has had a 300GB disk > fitted by the previous owner. It is running 10.5.6 and has 3GB 667 MHz > DDR2 SDRAM. It started up perfectly this morning but yesterday I had > to use the off button to do a restart. It began doing this roughly two > months ago. > > Regards > Susan > > On Feb 20, 10:17 pm, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Susan > > > What version iMac is it and what version of OSX are you running? > > > Have you noticed any other oddities with the machine, like panics or slow > > running in general? > > > Simon > > > --- > > > My second hand Intel iMac (no AppleCare) occasionally freezes during > > startup, at any stage from the pale blue screen right up to > > immediately after the login screen. Is this a symptom of a disk problem? > > Regards > > Susan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
