My new iMac won't boot past grey Apple screen!

[majordude]

Help!

Last night I left my computer to copy a bunch of files from an external HD to my iMac.

I tried to click on things but nothing worked. My mouse moved but that was it. It was locked up.

Rebooted and it got past the grey Apple screen with the spinning cursor to the grey Apple screen with nothing (just before it boots into Mac).

Stuck.

Turned it off and tried again. Same thing.

Unplugged it for a few minutes. Same thing.

Held down the power button. Same thing.

Booted into the repair screen and repaired permissions. No problems... BUT it locked up right after repair. I had to hold the power button to get it to reboot.

Right now it is stuck on a grey screen with a spinning beach ball.

HELP!

 

[S.B.G]

Well, if it's new, I'd take it to the Apple Store and have them fix it.

You can try leaving it unplugged for several hours (overnight) and then trying again. Check to see that the RAM chips are properly seated, if you've moved or replaced them...

 

[macdudesir]

Sounds like it may be a failing hard drive. Go back in to the recovery partition and open up disk utility and click "Verify Disk" In the bottom left. If it comes up with green letters, your drive is most likely fine, if it's red, back up your data and expect a trip to the apple store

 

[majordude]

I booted into Boot Camp and well, that crashed too.

It loaded very slowly. Then the screen kept blacking out as it switched screens. Finally it gave me a Blue Screen of Death saying that there was something wrong with the ATI driver.

(By new I mean 1 month)

 

[majordude]

HDD tests out good as does the memory (swapped out my OMC for the original Apple...)

 

[zigzagg321]

Its under warranty correct?

 

[David085]

If its still under warrant I would suggest take it to your nearest Apple store for them to look at so they can possibility repair the machine

 

[majordude]

Took it in to Apple today. I found the last parking spot at the mall.

They confirmed your suspicions. Bad HD.

 

[majordude]

Got my computer back yesterday (9 days in the shop ). It was the HD.

I think they put a different brand in. I now have a Western Digital (which I really don't care for). I want to say it came with a Seagate. Anyone know?

This new drive seems louder than the other one but at least it spins at 7.2K and works!