The last thing it said it was testing was the memory. As I said earlier, I am not able to boot with command-option to get a boot menu. It never gets to the boot menu, so I can't ever choose a different drive to boot from.
As I am writing, I just looked at the test screen and I see that it now says 50 minutes. It was stuck on 10 minutes for more than 30 or 40 minutes, but it finally updated the time, though the progress bar is still only at about 30% (and it's been over an hour, I think). Maybe it will eventually finish. Over the last day or two, the iMac would hang for several minutes and then come back, so maybe the testing program hung for a while and then continued. I'll let it run for a few more hours. Gregg On Oct 30, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Macs R We wrote: > 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. > > -- > Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support > in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. > http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
