I have looked around and I don't really find my same issue. I don't want to bore everyone with all of the details but after some time of owning a new 27" 2012 iMac the internal HDD got flaky and finally died. Every Mac we have ever owned had its HDD die so I was ready. I have been running of externals forever and have the boot drive cloned on a weekly basis and rotate them monthly. The latest problem is that the drives take forever to show up at boot whether or not they are set up as boot by default or selecting on after POST. Once the computer does boot it goes off into the weeds and can never be awaken. When this happens I do get the screen to come back on from black but never a password prompt. I can even go as far as disconnecting the drives without the screen going blank. Before this pig became unusable I tried all of the PRAM, NVRAM tricks and fiddled with the hibernation settings but the problem only got worse. The problem affects EVERYTHING that is connected to the data bus; mouse, firewire, USB (don't have any thunderbolt but I have an adapter connected to a firewire 800 LaCie external). I know I'm going to have to take this pig to Apple and get fleeced and lied to when I want to get it repaired. I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this total loss of connectivity to the back of the machine. Until I get this figured out I happily plunk along on my almost 4 year old i5 E6500 series Dell running Windows 8.1.
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks