Help, problem with new iMac 24" 2.8

[honeyshape]

Hi guys,

Could someone please help me?

I have just bought a new iMac 24" 2.8. It had a drop in leopard DVD so I have up dated. Set up time machine, set up mail, tranfered all contacts, photos, music, doc etc, and have installed logic 8.

I did a software update and it asked me to restart my computer so i did.

the computer just hung (it just showed the wall paper, you could move the mouse but couldn't do anyting else so I turned it off by holding down the power button.

When i turned the computer on it went into setup assistant. I went through the setup again and then it went back to the first page of the setup. I had to power down again.

Now when i boot, finder show setup assistant in the menu bar but you cant do anything! So i power down again (press and hold the button). and it boots back up to setup assistant again but will not respond to anything.

Any ideas?

 

[Makosuke]

It sounds something like the "Bad Leopard upgrades" some people have been having. Question: Did you install Leopard as an Upgrade install, or did you use "Archive and install"? If the former, that has been the source of a lot of funkyness.

Either way, though, your best bet may be to reinstall Leopard, this time being sure to do an Archive and Install (preserving users), which will give you a pretty clean copy of Leopard but with all your data intact. Then install the updater and hope for the best.

Oh, and I should ask: Do you have any 3rd party hacks installed (or did you before upgrading)? If so, that could also cause all manner of issues if they're not Leopard-safe.

 

[honeyshape]

I didn't have any hacks.

It a brand new imac that i picked up on 2 days ago. It had tiger but a leopard disc for upgrade.

I did the 'C' key and boot with the leopard disk thing before i ready your post choose Upgrade Mac OS X.

Same problem - it boots into setup and after setup it returnes to the first setup page again and keeps looping - a bit like ground hog day but not funny!

I will now reinstall using archive and install.

Stay tuned and thanks

 

[Sun Baked]

Check out the leopard troubleshooting page

http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/

Look at

Mac OS X 10.5: Setup Assistant appears after every restart

 

[honeyshape]

Did the reinstall - now downloading updates - it seems good so far.

Thanks sunbaked - i did a search on this but didn't look hard enough. This is my problem exactly - it it happens after updates, i know what to do.

Thanks guys