I have a clients old iMac its a 4,1 model. They were having issues with the beach ball spinning all the time, the airport stopped working, this is what I did.
Tried resetting PRAM, made no difference.
Started fixing permissions and it found a lot of errors.
Stopped that, booted off a SL install disc, tried to repair the drive, it failed, said to backup your files, reformat and reinstall.
Now when I try to boot it, the white screen with the Apple logo comes up and at the bottom of the screen there is what a looks like a long progress indicator, it starts to show progress and then the whole machine powers off. The SL disc is still in the machine. I am not pressing any keys during boot.
What should I do?
I have half a mind to open it up, pull the drive, put a new drive in, reinstall SL and then plug the original drive in as an external to copy their files back.
AM
Tried resetting PRAM, made no difference.
Started fixing permissions and it found a lot of errors.
Stopped that, booted off a SL install disc, tried to repair the drive, it failed, said to backup your files, reformat and reinstall.
Now when I try to boot it, the white screen with the Apple logo comes up and at the bottom of the screen there is what a looks like a long progress indicator, it starts to show progress and then the whole machine powers off. The SL disc is still in the machine. I am not pressing any keys during boot.
What should I do?
I have half a mind to open it up, pull the drive, put a new drive in, reinstall SL and then plug the original drive in as an external to copy their files back.
AM