Your hard drive died.
Take it to an apple store.
Mine did the same thing two months out of warranty.
I now have a 500 GB HD for $250 from a third party recommended by the  
Apple store.

Sent from my eyeFone

On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Jonathan Rowson  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I've just run into a problem, my iMac won't boot. It's a late 2008  
> 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo. When I press the power button, I hear a 'whirr'  
> like the HD or SuperDrive is spinning up and it stops and makes a  
> short click. It won't get past that. I can't get into target mode, I  
> can't hold the option key because the keyboard isn't being  
> recognized. I'm going to try another keyboard. Any other suggestions  
> before I contact Apple (the machine is about 6 months old)
>
> -- 
> __________________________________________
> Jonathan D. Rowson, M.D.
>
> >

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