2017 5k 27" Iman ventura only boots up in safe mode

[lasloduncan]

did do the recent ungrade ventura 13.x.x---lets see, did that wed night today is friday and yesterday thursday was sort of a boot up nvram reset etc day.....thoughts??-
it is no good to me as it is--
and I do not find any solutions (yet) thank you all

 

[Fishrrman]

If this iMac has a discrete GPU, and it will boot only in safe mode (which BYPASSES the discrete GPU), then it suggests something isn't right with the GPU.

Will other OS's boot it normally?

 

[lasloduncan]

it is fixed ...no idea how where or why ...lots of restarts change boot disks etc I am thinking timmy cookie did a update in ventura wed this started thur (yesterday)

 

[specialstyle]

it is fixed ...no idea how where or why ...lots of restarts change boot disks etc I am thinking timmy cookie did a update in ventura wed this started thur (yesterday)

Was going to suggest running a First Aid in disk utility. But if it ain't broke...