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Imac G5 not starting up..
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 1066946" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>My close friend just bought a used iMac 2.16Ghz 24" just like the OP's. Worked great for a month and yesterday locked and is doing the exact same thing as the OP's.</p><p></p><p>I went over and tried the 10.4.? original DVD that came with the iMac as well as 10.5 and 10.6 Black Retail. Sits at the gray screen with nothing. I took over a external FW400 drive with 10.6 installed and bootable on every intel Mac in my house. Held down the Option and just that drive popped up but clicking gets you no where.</p><p></p><p>I did some searching when I got home and on that machine at least, if the Hard Drive is really messed up, it will react that way and not boot from anything from a DVD to even an external HDD. Getting the iMac over here tomorrow and will take out the HDD and see if it boots. I am told it will.</p><p></p><p>Will report back. This is the first time I have ran into this issue but many on the net have and this has worked for all of them.</p><p></p><p>Be back tomorrow with my report.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 1066946, member: 8287"] My close friend just bought a used iMac 2.16Ghz 24" just like the OP's. Worked great for a month and yesterday locked and is doing the exact same thing as the OP's. I went over and tried the 10.4.? original DVD that came with the iMac as well as 10.5 and 10.6 Black Retail. Sits at the gray screen with nothing. I took over a external FW400 drive with 10.6 installed and bootable on every intel Mac in my house. Held down the Option and just that drive popped up but clicking gets you no where. I did some searching when I got home and on that machine at least, if the Hard Drive is really messed up, it will react that way and not boot from anything from a DVD to even an external HDD. Getting the iMac over here tomorrow and will take out the HDD and see if it boots. I am told it will. Will report back. This is the first time I have ran into this issue but many on the net have and this has worked for all of them. Be back tomorrow with my report. [/QUOTE]
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