Advice needed: iMac not booting up

[whooshbong]

i was using my iMac last week, the screen went pixelated and hashed and none responsive. I switched it off and on and it happened again after about a minute. Since then I’ve not been able to get past the boot screen. It gets about 2/3rds along the progress bar and stops.

I can’t get into the recovery mode or diagnostic menu. I can choose the boot menu for boot camp but it crashes out when loading windows.

Tried using a usb stick to recover and reinstall but still can’t get past the boot screen.

Model is the 2012 iMac. Apple reseller says it’s a vintage model so no parts but could be logic or graphics card.

My question is, is this worth trying to fix and anyone got an idea about what it might be?

 

[Fishrrman]

Sounds like a graphics failure.

Have you tried internet recovery? (NOT "the recovery partition)
Press the power-on button and hold down "command-OPTION-R" until the internet symbol appears.

WHY I'm asking you to try this:
If it suddenly boots, this could indicate that it's a "drive-related" problem (which it probably is not)
If you get the same problems, then again it points toward "hardware OTHER THAN the drive".

A 2012 is now "7 years old".
Any money you would put towards a repair (unless it was quite cheap) would probably be better spent on something new...

 

[OSX_rulez]

Your Apple reseller should use the Apple Service Diagnostic software to check all the hardware of your iMac, so at least you could know what's wrong and if it is worth to repair. If it's the GPU you can try to reflow it (search on YouTube) or find a "new" card.

 

[whooshbong]

Sounds like a graphics failure.

Have you tried internet recovery? (NOT "the recovery partition)
Press the power-on button and hold down "command-OPTION-R" until the internet symbol appears.

WHY I'm asking you to try this:
If it suddenly boots, this could indicate that it's a "drive-related" problem (which it probably is not)
If you get the same problems, then again it points toward "hardware OTHER THAN the drive".

A 2012 is now "7 years old".
Any money you would put towards a repair (unless it was quite cheap) would probably be better spent on something new...

I get about as far as the picture in booting up before it stops. Tried internet recovery but just get a continually spinning globe.

The local Apple reseller just said they couldn’t service it as it’s a vintage model. Apple no longer make parts and they order parts as needed so no extra in stock. They suggested trying another reseller. I know there is one in Nottingham so might give them a ring tomorrow.

 

[Coconutcreampie]

I get about as far as the picture in booting up before it stops. Tried internet recovery but just get a continually spinning globe.

The local Apple reseller just said they couldn’t service it as it’s a vintage model. Apple no longer make parts and they order parts as needed so no extra in stock. They suggested trying another reseller. I know there is one in Nottingham so might give them a ring tomorrow.

You say it gets to that screen "and stops," but what happens after it stops? Does it stay on that screen? Does the iMac shut down? More details.

Is it the original drive? Is it an HDD?

Plug in an Ethernet cable to your router and try Internet Recovery again. Give it a little time when you see the globe.

 

[whooshbong]

You say it gets to that screen "and stops," but what happens after it stops? Does it stay on that screen? Does the iMac shut down? More details.

Is it the original drive? Is it an HDD?

Plug in an Ethernet cable to your router and try Internet Recovery again. Give it a little time when you see the globe.

It seems to stop and do nothing, no excess noise or clunking. Tried getting into safe mode the bar progresses a bit further, to about 90%. The hard drive was replaced last year by authorised Apple reseller. Tried plugging into Ethernet not giving me any option other then wireless.

 

[OSX_rulez]

It seems to stop and do nothing, no excess noise or clunking. Tried getting into safe mode the bar progresses a bit further, to about 90%. The hard drive was replaced last year by authorised Apple reseller. Tried plugging into Ethernet not giving me any option other then wireless.

Start in single mode (cmd-s) and report where it stops.

 

[whooshbong]

Start in single mode (cmd-s) and report where it stops.

Don’t know if that is readable from the picture

 

[Fishrrman]

Just wondering, may be a totally irrelevant question:
Do you have anything in the SD card slot?

Why I asked:
The last line I see in one image above is:
"root@ pci pause: SDXC"
May have NOTHING to do with the SD card slot, but you never know...

 

[OSX_rulez]

Don’t know if that is readable from the picture

OK and what about in Verbose mode (cmd-v)? What OS are you booting from, High Sierra or a previous one? I had a similar problem one year ago, and it was not easy to fix but there was a working method.
Let me know if after "root@ pci pause: SDXC" you see something like "opendirectoryd: Too many corpses being created" or "qmasterd...", in this cases I can give you a few links to solve without formatting.

 

[whooshbong]

Just wondering, may be a totally irrelevant question:
Do you have anything in the SD card slot?

Why I asked:
The last line I see in one image above is:
"root@ pci pause: SDXC"
May have NOTHING to do with the SD card slot, but you never know...

Nothing connected at all apart from the Ethernet cable.
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Don’t know if that is readable from the picture

About 2/3 of way down it talks about the fusion three shut down. Is that anything?

Also near the bottom of the second image it says unsupported cpu twice.
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OK and what about in Verbose mode (cmd-v)? What OS are you booting from, High Sierra or a previous one? I had a similar problem one year ago, and it was not easy to fix but there was a working method.
Let me know if after "root@ pci pause: SDXC" you see something like "opendirectoryd: Too many corpses being created" or "qmasterd...", in this cases I can give you a few links to solve without formatting.

This is with cmd v.

Nothing after the root@ line.
Booting the lastest version - high Sierra?