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Hello everyone,
After two weeks of Googling and countless YouTube videos, I'm reaching out to see if I could get some direct help. My 2012 iMac 27" froze suddenly while I was working in iMovie and stayed unresponsive for about 20 minutes. I tried to reboot the system numerous times and while the bar would get so far during the loading screen, it eventually dimmed and I would just see the white screen. I then tried everything I knew to do: safe mode, recovery mode, PRAM, diagnostics, network recovery, hardware test (short and long), SMC reset, everything is unplugged except a keyboard and mouse, and have tried re-installing OS from a USB boot drive (worked once, but then the freeze happened again about 3 minutes into using). Am I missing anything? Every keyboard short I know and have looked up eventually results in the white screen. I even tried using target disk mode hoping to run recovery from a MacBook Pro but still nothing. I've done the fsck -fy countless times from single user mode... Is my Mac broken even though there are times when I've made progress? Please help!
After two weeks of Googling and countless YouTube videos, I'm reaching out to see if I could get some direct help. My 2012 iMac 27" froze suddenly while I was working in iMovie and stayed unresponsive for about 20 minutes. I tried to reboot the system numerous times and while the bar would get so far during the loading screen, it eventually dimmed and I would just see the white screen. I then tried everything I knew to do: safe mode, recovery mode, PRAM, diagnostics, network recovery, hardware test (short and long), SMC reset, everything is unplugged except a keyboard and mouse, and have tried re-installing OS from a USB boot drive (worked once, but then the freeze happened again about 3 minutes into using). Am I missing anything? Every keyboard short I know and have looked up eventually results in the white screen. I even tried using target disk mode hoping to run recovery from a MacBook Pro but still nothing. I've done the fsck -fy countless times from single user mode... Is my Mac broken even though there are times when I've made progress? Please help!