Hey all,
I have a 4-year-old mac mini that has recently begun having some issues. It froze up on me a few days ago to the point I wasn't able to access the finder and had to shut it down manually.
When I restarted it, it got to the boot screen with the apple and indicator, but just sat there for an hour. I let it sit for a day or so and when I tried again, it would start to boot again, but turn itself off after about 30 seconds.
I opened it up, cleaned out the dust and replaced the HD and now it will boot and show the folder with a question mark -- but no longer shuts itself down after so long. The new issue is that even with the original install disc in the drive, I can't get it to access it -- I've tried holding down C, X and shift (individually) during boot.
The one boot command that has worked was holding down command+option+c+r to zap the PRAM -- but nothing else.
Any ideas?
Thanks so much!
I have a 4-year-old mac mini that has recently begun having some issues. It froze up on me a few days ago to the point I wasn't able to access the finder and had to shut it down manually.
When I restarted it, it got to the boot screen with the apple and indicator, but just sat there for an hour. I let it sit for a day or so and when I tried again, it would start to boot again, but turn itself off after about 30 seconds.
I opened it up, cleaned out the dust and replaced the HD and now it will boot and show the folder with a question mark -- but no longer shuts itself down after so long. The new issue is that even with the original install disc in the drive, I can't get it to access it -- I've tried holding down C, X and shift (individually) during boot.
The one boot command that has worked was holding down command+option+c+r to zap the PRAM -- but nothing else.
Any ideas?
Thanks so much!