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Hi,
I am having trouble with my 2008 24" imac.
I was told the hard drive was failing, so on a techs advice we installed new ram and a 2TB western digital hard drive.
At the same time he upgraded me to OSx.6.
Since then my computer goes to white screen when starting up 80% of the time without going to login screen.
If I unplug it and let it cool down it will start up on the second attempt usually.
It has been in for a comprehensive diagnostic and come back with a full pass on all the hardware.
It has been run through disk warrior and it was pulled up and fixed on a few issues, ran fine for 6 start ups at the workshop, but is still presenting the same issues when left plugged in here at home.
It does seem to be getting really hot, but when i left it on for 3 weeks for fear that it wouldn't start again, it didn't skip a beat.
Now I have narrowed it down to several things we are yet to try:
- Downgrading the hard drive to 1 or 1.5TB to see if the heat output is the problem.
- Installing a UPS to isolate the power to see if it is a problem with my house power supply.
- running another virus scan to see if we can detect anything.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
I am pulling my hair out here and really need this issue fixed so i don't have this constant interruption to my work.
Cheers
Annette
I am having trouble with my 2008 24" imac.
I was told the hard drive was failing, so on a techs advice we installed new ram and a 2TB western digital hard drive.
At the same time he upgraded me to OSx.6.
Since then my computer goes to white screen when starting up 80% of the time without going to login screen.
If I unplug it and let it cool down it will start up on the second attempt usually.
It has been in for a comprehensive diagnostic and come back with a full pass on all the hardware.
It has been run through disk warrior and it was pulled up and fixed on a few issues, ran fine for 6 start ups at the workshop, but is still presenting the same issues when left plugged in here at home.
It does seem to be getting really hot, but when i left it on for 3 weeks for fear that it wouldn't start again, it didn't skip a beat.
Now I have narrowed it down to several things we are yet to try:
- Downgrading the hard drive to 1 or 1.5TB to see if the heat output is the problem.
- Installing a UPS to isolate the power to see if it is a problem with my house power supply.
- running another virus scan to see if we can detect anything.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
I am pulling my hair out here and really need this issue fixed so i don't have this constant interruption to my work.
Cheers
Annette