re: new iMacs....i liked using shower wall cups to pop the screens off 'em..kinda cool...in a crude way...; ^) peel back the foil watch those tiny wires and bob's your uncle! what about target disk mode, got something else to try booting with a firewire cable attached? that's all i got, not mentioned... and yer not 'telling' us you don't have an external that you're backing up to...regularly, right?...; ^)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Christopher Bischoff <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- knowledge and wisdom come from knowing a ""republican conservative"" is an oxymoron. -- 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.
