IMac Won't Boot Up Properly
Apr 6, 2012When I turn it on the whit screen comes with apple, then after a few minutes it goe off
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iMac, iOS 5.0.1
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IMac PPC :: G5 Won't Boot Properly?
Apr 18, 2012Recently I inherited an iMac G5 (no iSight) that has bluetooth and a preinstaled airport card. When I recieved it the drive was wiped so I did an install from the original disks. My problem is that the computer will not boot properly ; I can hear the chime, mostly the lcd lights up but it stays black, sometimes I will see the gray screen and from there it will either go to the light blue screen and hang or it will distort the picture and the fan will kick in. 2 out of 20 times it will boot successfuly but after about 1 min. it will freeze up, distort the image and then the display goes crazy! I don't know whats wrong... the capacitors have been replaced a not too long ago along with the power supply, and I ran a hardware test and it says everything is fine ( the G5 won't recognize the airport card or bluethooth!). I need help!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), PPC G5 (no iSight)
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Jun 29, 2008I am currently running a 15" Powerbook G4 1.67, 1GB ram, latest update for 10.5.
Yesterday my computer randomly went to sleep and wouldn't wake up. I forced it to shut down and then tried rebooting it. It started up, but went to sleep before even getting to the login screen. I have searched the internet, this website, and the apple support site to try and fix the problem.
I have tried resetting the PMU (although I don't know if I did that correctly), leaving it to rest without any battery or AC power hooked up to it, and the CMD + ALT + P + R reset all to no avail.
It seems like the general outcome for random sleep problems hasn't been too good,
MacBook Pro :: Fails To Boot Properly After EFI Firmware 27 Update
Apr 16, 2012I have a strange boot issue having (tried) to install EFI 2.7 update. When I restart the laptop, it 'chimes', displays a grey screen, then chimes, displays a grey screen, forever. I hit the bower (off) button for 5 secs or thereabouts, and restart, same thing. I do this 4 times and finally it reboots. But the EFI update still appears as needing to be installed (software update tells me it is not installed). Update history shows however that it IS installed. I can go through this process any number of times. I now have Software Update history showing quite a few installs opf the EFI 2.7 update. If I just do a restart without installing, I also go through the same fail to restart / fail to start / ... / eventually restart sequence.
So it seems now that the laptop will only start after 4 failed restarts and finally it starts. After starting it all appears to be perfectly fine. Nothing strange in the console logs that I can see. The failed reboots don't seem to register in the console logs - I suspect that the failure to restart is pretty early on in the boot sequence, well before it tries to load any semblance of the OSX kernel. It is almost as if it is trying to boot from someplace other than the disk ... until eventually it gives up and tries the disk. (I have tried booting with and without network cable - no difference) I don't know enough about mac bootup sequences to know if there is some config/setting that is screwed up causing this odd behaviour.
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
PowerPC :: Doesn't Boot Properly - Blinking Folder With Question Mark
Jul 6, 2009I'm having an issue with my PowerBook G4. It wouldn't turn on at all before, so I installed another motherboard. Now it will power on, but it only shows this folder icon that blinks. I'm a complete n00b to macs. If this were a PC I would of fixed it by now. I need some help. I've tried the installation disk, but when I hold down the C key, it takes longer, but it just shows that folder again. When I hold down the Option key, it only gives me a reload button, and an arrow button, but no boot up options. Do you think it could be a problem with this other used motherboard? Or is it that I just didn't put it in right? I've double checked all the hardware, and it seems to be all connected. The keyboard lights up, and the trackpad works, and it makes the boot-up sound.
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Jan 26, 2009First, I have a mid-2008 Aluminum iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 Ghz, 2GB Ram, running OS X 10.5.6. So two days ago, it started hanging on me. Prior to this I have never had any problems with it. I had mail open, a browser window and a chat window. Started getting the spinning beach ball of death. It finally totally locked up on me and I have to force it to shut down.
However, upon reboot, it would not get past the white screen with the apple logo and the spinning gray gear icon. I'm talking like 10-15 minutes. I forced it to shut down (probably not a good idea) and this time on reboot I got the folder icon with the question mark as if firmware could not locate the booter file. I loaded the install DVD that came with the mac and ran Disk Utilities.................
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IMac :: 27" Wont's Boot Up / Takes A Very Long Time To Boot?
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In the second week the boot up times became very slow.
I would turn the machine on and get the chime within 5 seconds or so.
Then just a black/blank screen.
Eventually after about 10mins I would get a white screen then it would boot up normally.
Now the machine just doesn't get to the white screen. So I get the chime and then just darkness. It does sound like the machine is on (usual quiet imac whirring).
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4)
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[URL] says that I can have up to 4GB: [URL]
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Jun 8, 2008iMac intel core duo...
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