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Mac OS 10.5.8 unresponsive-black screen, no power light
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1628912" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Welcome to the Mac Forums Maria.</p><p></p><p>You certainly provided us with plenty of information regarding your iMac and the steps you've taken to trouble shoot it. I'm not sure which model iMac you have, but if you say you purchased it in 2008 and it was used, it could either be a PPC model (G5) or an Intel model. The Intel iMacs were first introduced in early 2006 with the last PPC model iMac produced in 2005.</p><p></p><p>From your description of the problem - slow downs, freezing, etc, - points to a dying hard drive. You said you ran FSCK on the hard drive and it was repaired but that really only refers to the file and folder system. If the hard drive has a mechanical or electronic defect, FSCK will not detect it. Of course other things could also cause the slowdowns and freezing such as a bad GPU or logic board and even a bad power supply.</p><p></p><p>To be honest, with a machine that old, it just isn't worth spending any real sum of money on it to do repairs. Unless you can trouble shoot and do repairs yourself, it's best to try and come up with a newer machine. As for your data, if the hard drive has failed and you have no backups, all your photos and other documents could be gone forever. The cost to remove data from a dead or failed hard drive is ridiculously expensive. Of course if the hard drive is OK and is not the problem, then the data can be easily removed and saved elsewhere.</p><p></p><p>Sorry I don't have any better news for you. Perhaps some of our other members will have some suggestions and or ideas, so stay tuned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1628912, member: 46727"] Welcome to the Mac Forums Maria. You certainly provided us with plenty of information regarding your iMac and the steps you've taken to trouble shoot it. I'm not sure which model iMac you have, but if you say you purchased it in 2008 and it was used, it could either be a PPC model (G5) or an Intel model. The Intel iMacs were first introduced in early 2006 with the last PPC model iMac produced in 2005. From your description of the problem - slow downs, freezing, etc, - points to a dying hard drive. You said you ran FSCK on the hard drive and it was repaired but that really only refers to the file and folder system. If the hard drive has a mechanical or electronic defect, FSCK will not detect it. Of course other things could also cause the slowdowns and freezing such as a bad GPU or logic board and even a bad power supply. To be honest, with a machine that old, it just isn't worth spending any real sum of money on it to do repairs. Unless you can trouble shoot and do repairs yourself, it's best to try and come up with a newer machine. As for your data, if the hard drive has failed and you have no backups, all your photos and other documents could be gone forever. The cost to remove data from a dead or failed hard drive is ridiculously expensive. Of course if the hard drive is OK and is not the problem, then the data can be easily removed and saved elsewhere. Sorry I don't have any better news for you. Perhaps some of our other members will have some suggestions and or ideas, so stay tuned. [/QUOTE]
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