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- 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB Ram
I'm starting to lose faith in Apple due to problems with my i-mac. Can someone tell me what is going on???
To start off this is the second time in two weeks i've had to reinstall snow leopard, the first time I lost everything (all my music from not using the time machine and backing it up).
Out of the blue one morning I turned it on and all I got for the 4 hours was the the white screen with apple symbol and the little turning symbol.. turning, turning, thinking, thinking... But it didn't boot??
I looked up the diagnosis problems on google and in these forums from my i-phone.
1. I disconnected all USB items and held my finger on power button to restart again... Still was thinking, thinking for two hours and nothing.
2. I booted from the install disk, ran repair in utilities, repaired restarted, still no boot. It was thinking, thinking for three hours.
3. By the end of it I was peed and just wiped the hard drive again and reinstalled snowy again.
What is causing this? I don't visit unknown sites, I shutdown and look after it properly... Is it the heat lately as we have had some 40 degree days here in Sydney.
If some-one has a solution as to why it wont boot on startup I would greatly appreciate it, as i'm a graphic designer and I cant afford to keep wasting my time reformatting every week.
The system is the older model, Dual Intel processor i-mac, 250 gig, 2 MB of ram upgraded to snow leopard. 10.6.
Has been in my ownership for 6 months will be lucky to reach 12 at this rate.