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iMac mid 2007 A1224 Wont Install An OS.
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 1818735" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Do try an External USB drive and see if that will work. You might have to hold down Option at startup and see if that drive with the SL Factory DVD shows up. If so select that and click the arrow.</p><p></p><p>If that does not do it here is something I ran into on a 24" White iMac. It had your issue. It was my friends iMac and he would not listen to me and ran it with no surge protection at all. A Poll Transformer on his block exploded and put a large surge down the lines. His PC's all had expensive protection but the iMac was plugged directly in. Well he brought the machine to me and it would not boot. I tried everything. Then I took it apart and took out the Hard Drive and Bang, came to life. Turns out the controller board on the bottom of the drive got damaged by the surge. New hard drive and everything installed and the machine still works.</p><p></p><p>Keep us posted on if the external DVD lets you boot from SL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 1818735, member: 8287"] Do try an External USB drive and see if that will work. You might have to hold down Option at startup and see if that drive with the SL Factory DVD shows up. If so select that and click the arrow. If that does not do it here is something I ran into on a 24" White iMac. It had your issue. It was my friends iMac and he would not listen to me and ran it with no surge protection at all. A Poll Transformer on his block exploded and put a large surge down the lines. His PC's all had expensive protection but the iMac was plugged directly in. Well he brought the machine to me and it would not boot. I tried everything. Then I took it apart and took out the Hard Drive and Bang, came to life. Turns out the controller board on the bottom of the drive got damaged by the surge. New hard drive and everything installed and the machine still works. Keep us posted on if the external DVD lets you boot from SL. [/QUOTE]
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