The imac is about 2 years old, 20" A1244.
It gets as far as making the apple chord in the boot sequence and then does not get past the grey screen.
I have tried to netboot, grey screen
hold down c to boot form a dvd, grey screen
I have tried the option key with a bootable external drive attached.
I have tried safe mode
verbose mode
single user mode
I get nothing. From my limited understanding the apple chord means it has passed basic hardware tests, so if it was just a problem with the hard drive some of the things I tried should have worked no?
Any suggestions would be most welcome. If I have to I will send it in for repair, but it is always a toss up when the repair expense is so high.
Will
It gets as far as making the apple chord in the boot sequence and then does not get past the grey screen.
I have tried to netboot, grey screen
hold down c to boot form a dvd, grey screen
I have tried the option key with a bootable external drive attached.
I have tried safe mode
verbose mode
single user mode
I get nothing. From my limited understanding the apple chord means it has passed basic hardware tests, so if it was just a problem with the hard drive some of the things I tried should have worked no?
Any suggestions would be most welcome. If I have to I will send it in for repair, but it is always a toss up when the repair expense is so high.
Will