On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Christopher Bischoff wrote: > Urg. Late 2010? Alum iMac, Lion, THREE WEEKS OUT OF WARRANTY. Started getting > various permission errors right after pasting a custom icon for the HD, Disk > Utility tried to fix, over and over, appeared that it was unable to write > changes to the disk. Various reboots, suddenly the white screen, no Apple > logo, nadda. I don't think I can hear the HD spin up, but this was always a > quiet machine. PRAM zapped, unplugged, same bad result. None of the key > combos have any effect, tried two different KBs, doesn't recognize any DVDs > in the drive. Did some looking, will try to build a bootable Lion drive later > in the week but I've got a bad feeling about this. Looked at what goes into > swapping out a HD, don't think so, I miss beige. End of vent.
What happens if you boot whilst holding down command-V? (verbose mode, might get an idea of where the failure is occuring Command-S? Can you boot from an external drive? Does sound like a foo HDD. You're right that iFixit guide does look moderately hairy. Easier than working on a lampshade G4 iMac...I'm 1 for 3 on those, won't touch one now. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. 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/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
