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msw123307

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Mar 25, 2007
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I had to shut down my computer today, which I don't normally do. Upon reboot, I noticed that it went to the blue screen after the apple logo, and stayed there for about 10 minutes before finally starting completely.

This is a 24" 2007 alum imac with 4 gb of ram. I don't have many things running on startup, Dropbox, Growl, Simplifymedia (turned this off), and a few other things. But what can I do to remedy this? I have only been using this computer for a few short months. What could be wrong? Thanks.
 

JrdBeau

macrumors member
Oct 10, 2002
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San Jose, CA
I had the exact same problem a few days ago with my new iMac. Initial bootups were fine. Then, after a reboot, it paused for afew minutes on the white screen with the apple logo, then again on the blue screen for at least 5 minutes. Booting from the install DVD and running repair disk and repair permissions did the trick. Not sure which one actually fixed the problem though.
 

VisionSeven

macrumors newbie
Aug 6, 2008
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I'm having the same problems right now.
My iMac won't boot up :confused:
It stays on the boot screen.

Anymore iMac users with this problem???
 

JrdBeau

macrumors member
Oct 10, 2002
41
0
San Jose, CA
I'm having the same problems right now.
My iMac won't boot up :confused:
It stays on the boot screen.

Anymore iMac users with this problem???


Are you able to boot from the 1st Install DVD? It took a long time to boot from the DVD when I was having the problem. It eventually came up and allowed me to access Disk Utility
 

VisionSeven

macrumors newbie
Aug 6, 2008
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Are you able to boot from the 1st Install DVD? It took a long time to boot from the DVD when I was having the problem. It eventually came up and allowed me to access Disk Utility

I can boot from the install dvd but i can't repair the Disk Permissions.

It says: Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "iMac" beacause the following error was encountered: No valid packages

:eek:
 

JrdBeau

macrumors member
Oct 10, 2002
41
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San Jose, CA

VisionSeven

macrumors newbie
Aug 6, 2008
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Weird. i didn't touch or remove anything.
I was just using my iMac and it suddenly logged me out
I logged back in and the menubar disappeared. I had to manually shut it down.

And now i can't boot it up
It stays at the boot screen.
 
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