Good evening all. I have an iMac circa 2013 21.5” running macOS 10.15.7. with a fusion drive. Of late it has been slowing down and I have been looking to replace it with a refurb iMac of similar size and spec. At the moment, however, it is struggling to boot up. The opening screen with the apple logo and progress bar take roughly 15-30 minutes to reach the login screen. When I enter my login details, the mouse cursor becomes the spinning beach ball for another ten or so minutes before the iMac reboots itself and the process continues. I have unplugged all usb devices and also forced a shut down using the power button, disconnected and reconnected the power supply and restarted - but to no avail. The reboot/login loop continues.
Am I witnessing the death of my iMac? Fortunately, I have a time machine backup which I was going to use to setup the replacement iMac with. Any suggestions on how to break the reboot/login loop would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Jonathan Brady [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3AC31301-A052-4C91-A0FE-5170AE1B04F4%40gmail.com.
