Main Issue:
My working (pulled out and tested) internal hard drive in my iMac is not being recognized. I exchanged it for another hard drive I had lying around and the same problem occurred. I think I've narrowed it down to either a bad sata connection or a bad logic board, but I don't have a way to run the apple hardware test. Is there anyway I can do this without the disk? Also, where would I get a replacement sata connection? It has to be cheaper than a new logic board...
Background/Symptoms:
2007 iMac 20" 2.4 ghz 3gb ram, stock 320 gb hard drive
Fell asleep watching a movie (.avi) and the next morning when I went to use my iMac the mouse would move but everything else was frozen (including the time, however the time listed was well before when the movie would have still been playing and there was no frozen movie on the screen)
Restarted the computer and got the dreaded flashing folder of doom. I did some research and followed all the steps (option and c on start up, reset the vram, etc) and concluded that it was probably a bad hard drive. Like I said, I exchanged it and found that not only does the original work perfectly, the new hard drive isn't recognized either. I did not format the new drive as I was going to do that from firewire.
Now I'm booting from my original in an external enclosure, and everything works perfectly except it won't recognize my magic trackpad. Its lights flash and the bluetooth flashes on the toolbar but it won't actually connect. I don't have a usb mouse to test with.
Any suggestions?
My working (pulled out and tested) internal hard drive in my iMac is not being recognized. I exchanged it for another hard drive I had lying around and the same problem occurred. I think I've narrowed it down to either a bad sata connection or a bad logic board, but I don't have a way to run the apple hardware test. Is there anyway I can do this without the disk? Also, where would I get a replacement sata connection? It has to be cheaper than a new logic board...
Background/Symptoms:
2007 iMac 20" 2.4 ghz 3gb ram, stock 320 gb hard drive
Fell asleep watching a movie (.avi) and the next morning when I went to use my iMac the mouse would move but everything else was frozen (including the time, however the time listed was well before when the movie would have still been playing and there was no frozen movie on the screen)
Restarted the computer and got the dreaded flashing folder of doom. I did some research and followed all the steps (option and c on start up, reset the vram, etc) and concluded that it was probably a bad hard drive. Like I said, I exchanged it and found that not only does the original work perfectly, the new hard drive isn't recognized either. I did not format the new drive as I was going to do that from firewire.
Now I'm booting from my original in an external enclosure, and everything works perfectly except it won't recognize my magic trackpad. Its lights flash and the bluetooth flashes on the toolbar but it won't actually connect. I don't have a usb mouse to test with.
Any suggestions?