Intel Mac :: Gray Screen Spinning Wheel

Jun 11, 2012

Gray screen spinning wheel. How do I get it to start?

Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Ernestine123

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My early Intel iMac (2006) won't shut down - gray spinning wheel and blue screen for more than 2 hours now.  Can I safely turn it off with the power button?  (I'm a little paranoid after a bad experience doing that with my MacBook Pro).what I should I do then?

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Jul 23, 2010

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1. Reboot in Safe Mode: tried pressing down the Shift key before the powering up sound AND after the sound. Could not get into Safe Mode. Did this several times, holding the Shift key for as much as a minute or two. Nothing but grey screen and spinning wheel.

2. Reset NVRAM/PRAM: CMD+R+P+Option: Computer restarted but still goes into Grey Screen, spinning wheel and stays there forever.

3. CMD +S: I read this online. Gave me a black screen with a lot of information, but I don't know how to read the computer jargon, let alone know what to do with said info. 4. Disk Utility Repair Disk : Inserted my Leopard install disk. Went to Utility Disk. Performed a Repair Disk and I did get two error messages, something related to id 70000452 should be id 70000450 ( I'm sorry to say I cannot remember the exact error messages). But it showed as repaired. When I did a 2nd Repair Disk, I got the message that the volume appears to be OK. Turned off and on again, nothing but grey screen and wheel.......

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Apr 24, 2012

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4)

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Mar 4, 2012

Imac won't shut down, blue screen with spinning wheel is on and computer never shuts until I hold the power button down and shut it manually..

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jun 23, 2012

I have a IMac that suddenly can't move past the grey screen, apple logos, and spinning wheel.  I have used the OS system disk to repair the Macintosh HD, the app stated that the repair of the volume was successful, but in trying to use the HD to restart, I am still stuck with the spinning wheel.  What should I do next, or what am I doing wrong? 

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Jun 20, 2012

I had LogMeIn installed on my iMac and it worked fine for a while.  Then the icon for the program in the menu bar at the top of the screen went gray.  When I hover the mouse over the icon a spinning pinwheel appears, so I can't click the icon to start the program.  I deleted the program and then reinstalled it, but the gray icon and spinning wheel never whent away. how to delete the spinning wheel

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Intel Mac :: Won't Start - Get Apple Logo With Spinning Wheel, Question Mark That Disappears And Then Blank Blue Screen?

Jul 1, 2012

My daughter's old I Mac won't start. It is not backed up.  We want to get some things off of it if we can. When we turn it on, we get the Apple logo with spinning wheel for awhile, then a question mark briefly and then a sky blue blank screen.  Is there any hope of getting this to work?  This computer is out of warranty.  Does it seem that if we reinstall the Operating System we might find old data?  

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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IMac :: Screen Stuck On Spinning Wheel?

Nov 13, 2010

I was away at a friend's yesterday and left my computer on and downloading a torrent (I have done this before and everything has been fine). When I came back today, I noticed that my computer was working very slowly so I restarted it. However, it would just stay at the grey screen with the wheel spinning forever instead of moving on to the blue screen.

I know that this has been reported many times before, even on this forum, but everything I tried does not work. I tried:

Holding down Command+S at startup and entering the command fsck -fy. Did not fix the problem
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Dec 12, 2009

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Feb 25, 2012

My mac is often stalled with spinning wheel. What is best method to fix it?

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Aug 13, 2010

So all of the sudden my mbp will not boot past the spinning wheel/apple screen. I have not let it try for longer than 15 minutes but I don't see the point. I tried to boot in safe mode(hold down shift) but the bar only went to about 1/3 and stopped/disappeared...so I don't know what to do. This shouldn't be happening after a couple months of light use.

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Feb 12, 2012

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2: Upgrade iTunes from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3.

3: Restart, normally & fast.

4: Open iTunes.

5: Close iTunes.

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Why? Is it a bug in OS X Lion or iTunes 10.5.3?(mid 2010 MacBook Pro 371, OS X 10.7.3)

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Apr 22, 2012

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

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May 23, 2012

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Jun 10, 2012

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jun 27, 2012

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Apr 1, 2012

I had permission problems (locked time machine drive) so I did a full time machine restore.

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Then blue screen and spinning wheel for approx 7 seconds Then blue screen and black pointer for approx 2 seconds The blue screen spinning wheel / black pointer repeats. Also can't start up from Snow Leopard DVD.

I get exactly the same scenario. I have held down the power key at got the tone. Still won't start. It's an Imac (white one) 1.8Gig Dual with 1.5 gig of ram.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Apr 13, 2012

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Dec 11, 2014

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Jun 18, 2012

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Jun 6, 2012

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Mar 4, 2010

I upgraded to Snow Leopard and a few days later when i went to shutdown my mac pro after i woke it up, i got the blue screen and progress wheel just spinning. After calls with Apple, running both long and short hardware tests, 3 snow leopard discs, a clean install, 2 upgrades, the tech gave up. The clean install was a bare bones install with no applications installed. I would now have to take it into a repair shop and pay for software tests. This is a one year old mac pro with apple care. I used Time Machine to restore to leopard, and all is ok. Has anyone heard of this problem? I'm quit happy to stick with Leopard, but am upset that an apple software problem has to be fixed and paid for by me. I assume if it was a hardware problem it would show up in Leopard.

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