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Hi to all forum members, I hope someone can help me please.
My Intel iMac crashed yesterday for no particular reason, ending with a blue screen and endlessly turning cog. When I immediately shut down and restarted, OS X got to the login screen and then cut straight to another blue screen followed by exiting to terminal ("Darwin/BSD", text login etc). When I entered my login, it went back to the blue screen and no progress.
Tried this a couple of times with no joy; a few times there was blue screen only, no terminal.
Tried Safe Boot but same thing happens. Ran Apple Hardware Test, everything checks out OK. I can boot with Install CD, and I have run both Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions. Still no luck. Ran crons from Terminal window. No joy. Finally tried resetting PROM, but still no change.
I am at a loss as to what to try next. I have my documents backed up but haven't backed up my Entourage email for a couple of weeks, and I am concerned I will lose these messages if I reinstall OS X.
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? Any help greatly appreciated.
My Intel iMac crashed yesterday for no particular reason, ending with a blue screen and endlessly turning cog. When I immediately shut down and restarted, OS X got to the login screen and then cut straight to another blue screen followed by exiting to terminal ("Darwin/BSD", text login etc). When I entered my login, it went back to the blue screen and no progress.
Tried this a couple of times with no joy; a few times there was blue screen only, no terminal.
Tried Safe Boot but same thing happens. Ran Apple Hardware Test, everything checks out OK. I can boot with Install CD, and I have run both Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions. Still no luck. Ran crons from Terminal window. No joy. Finally tried resetting PROM, but still no change.
I am at a loss as to what to try next. I have my documents backed up but haven't backed up my Entourage email for a couple of weeks, and I am concerned I will lose these messages if I reinstall OS X.
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? Any help greatly appreciated.