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Loa

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May 5, 2003
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Hello,

I posted this on the Apple forums in 2 versions over 2 weeks and I haven't gotten a single response... I hope some of you guys here are better than them! :)

For the past 3 weeks I've been having problems with my iMac during start-up, and I'm completely out of ideas to solve them...

Here are the symptoms:

-Very long grey screen at start-up, culminating in the "?" folder after 10 or so minutes.
-When I force the system to start with the CD, 50% of the time Disc Utilty doesn't even see the HD!!!
-When it does see it, I can select it in the Start-up Disk utility and my system then boots up normally.
-When it doesn't see it, I have to restart (using the CD) until it does.

But, in the end, once it starts using the HD, everything works perfectly (until the next restart).

Can someone please help me figure this thing out?

I tried everything I could think of:

-Running Disc Utility from CD: nothing wrong, permissions OK.
-Running the CD in diagnostic mode: nothing wrong.

Thanks a lot you guys!

Nisaea
 
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