On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote:
> > 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. > > Hey Bruce, None of the Command start-up combos has any effect, thought it might have been a problem with the Logitech KB, swapped it out for the original KB, nothing, but thanks. External HD is next try, bit of a pain (for me) because this shipped with Leopard and was upgraded to Lion, so it doesn't (or didn't when I was able to boot that far) use the shipped system disk to boot from. Fixing Lion is new to me, but I've got this: http://www.macworld.com/article/1161069/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html so all is not lost...yet. 1 for three, ouch. -- 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.
