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Apple Computing Products:
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iMAC WHITE SCREEN NO BOOT ETC
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<blockquote data-quote="petef55" data-source="post: 1748523" data-attributes="member: 389434"><p>Thanks for the reply harryb . </p><p>Unfortunately no discs came with the machine as it was bought as a used machine for my son who has limited funds for an expensive repair. It had a failing hard disc flagged two years ago and I managed to replace this myself cloning the original Hitachi drive which was quite straightforward. The drive I used was a brand new 1tb Western Digital blue that I had over from a PC build. The old drive, although signaled as failing, was working fine and I placed in a caddie for emergencies such as what has happened. I thought I may have been able to boot from this drive and it does in fact go further but to a blue screen and then a white one with confused graphics across the screen. Would snow leopard have the correct diagnostic files? Are there any third party diagnostic discs available?</p><p>I suspect it may be a logic board problem personally my son always had the machine on for days on end and it always seemed to produce a lot of heat which may have finally taken its toll.</p><p>What I cannot understand though is why I could run disc repair successfully a couple of times, once using control "v" command and then when I tried to get some files off of the drive it was suddenly grayed out.</p><p>Thanks again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="petef55, post: 1748523, member: 389434"] Thanks for the reply harryb . Unfortunately no discs came with the machine as it was bought as a used machine for my son who has limited funds for an expensive repair. It had a failing hard disc flagged two years ago and I managed to replace this myself cloning the original Hitachi drive which was quite straightforward. The drive I used was a brand new 1tb Western Digital blue that I had over from a PC build. The old drive, although signaled as failing, was working fine and I placed in a caddie for emergencies such as what has happened. I thought I may have been able to boot from this drive and it does in fact go further but to a blue screen and then a white one with confused graphics across the screen. Would snow leopard have the correct diagnostic files? Are there any third party diagnostic discs available? I suspect it may be a logic board problem personally my son always had the machine on for days on end and it always seemed to produce a lot of heat which may have finally taken its toll. What I cannot understand though is why I could run disc repair successfully a couple of times, once using control "v" command and then when I tried to get some files off of the drive it was suddenly grayed out. Thanks again. [/QUOTE]
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