Happy new year, guys!
I'm opening a new topic 'cause I couldn't find answers for my questions after 3 days of googleing around.
Long story short: I was browsing with Chrome, couple of tabs opened, the mail app, skype, finder and a couple of more "inoffensive" apps opened, I can't remember exactly, and suddenly my iMac rebooted. At least tried to.
Since, I couldn't start it. Sometimes I got stuck at a black screen, sometimes at a white one, and sometimes it starts and shows the apple logo and the loading circle than back to the white screen, and sometimes the chime is looping.
I managed once to boot into Disk Utility with command +R and start the disk repair, but it restarted.Same thing happened when I gave the fsck command in single user mode. I noticed that it reboots when its loading something related to Parallels, but not sure that's the problem. Then I tried everything:
-verbose: no success: restarting.
-boot from disk: restarting
-netboot: restarting.
-command+R: restarting
-single user mode: restarting after a couple of minutes of inactivity.
-can't boot to Disk Warrior.
-safe boot: nothing
-Apple Hardware Test not working
-SMC & nvram Reset: several times, nothing changed.
-changed memory modules to the original ones at 2GB
My mac:
osX Mountain Lion 10.8
Model Number: MB398
Machine Model: iMac8,1
CPU speed: 3.06GHz
24 inch
Any help will be truly appreciated. Thank you.
I'm opening a new topic 'cause I couldn't find answers for my questions after 3 days of googleing around.
Long story short: I was browsing with Chrome, couple of tabs opened, the mail app, skype, finder and a couple of more "inoffensive" apps opened, I can't remember exactly, and suddenly my iMac rebooted. At least tried to.
Since, I couldn't start it. Sometimes I got stuck at a black screen, sometimes at a white one, and sometimes it starts and shows the apple logo and the loading circle than back to the white screen, and sometimes the chime is looping.
I managed once to boot into Disk Utility with command +R and start the disk repair, but it restarted.Same thing happened when I gave the fsck command in single user mode. I noticed that it reboots when its loading something related to Parallels, but not sure that's the problem. Then I tried everything:
-verbose: no success: restarting.
-boot from disk: restarting
-netboot: restarting.
-command+R: restarting
-single user mode: restarting after a couple of minutes of inactivity.
-can't boot to Disk Warrior.
-safe boot: nothing
-Apple Hardware Test not working
-SMC & nvram Reset: several times, nothing changed.
-changed memory modules to the original ones at 2GB
My mac:
osX Mountain Lion 10.8
Model Number: MB398
Machine Model: iMac8,1
CPU speed: 3.06GHz
24 inch
Any help will be truly appreciated. Thank you.
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No, unfortunately, not a good new year start for me, and I have sh#& load of work to do, my windows 8 laptop can't keep up. The bad luck is that my NAS server is full, so no backups in the last 2 weeks or so. Can you give me some advice about how to load back the OS if it's impossible for me to boot from disk? Thanks for reply.