On Oct 30, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Gregg Dinse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the advice. I zapped the PRAM, inserted the hardware test DVD,
> powered off, and powered on while holding the D key. The iMac booted from
> the DVD and allowed me to start the hardware test.
>
> First, I did the short (3-minute) test and it reported all was fine. It must
> not test much...
>
> Then I tried the long test, which said it might take an hour. The iMac froze
> during the test! What does that mean? The progress bar got about 20% across
> and the time has been stuck on 10 minutes, 43 seconds for the last 20 minutes.
>
> Does a freeze during the hardware test suggest more than the hard drive being
> bad, or might it still just be the hard drive?
Didn't it say what it was testing when it hung?
It's possible for a drive to hang the ATA bus so bad the entire machine hangs,
but I have no way of telling from here whether that's the case with your
machine.
If this machine were my shop, I'd use Option to boot it from an external FW
drive, dismount the internal drive if it comes up active, run it a while to
make sure it doesn't hang, then remount the internal drive and give it a
workout with a utility like Drive Genius / Scan to see if that hangs it again.
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