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jwlayug

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 23, 2017
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i owned a late 2012 imac and recently, every time i open a game it hangs and today it shut down on his own.. when i tried to boot my mac, i always get stuck at apple logo while when booting on windows, it shut downs on his own at windows logo..

What should i do? Please help
 

mikehalloran

macrumors 68020
Oct 14, 2018
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The Sillie Con Valley
If you can see this happen, unlikely to be the GPU.

If it’s the original HDD, that’s probably your culprit. I’ve never seen one in good shape after 5 years and they just keep getting worse till they crap out completely.

It can be a bad NV RAM battery but that’s a Hail Mary. If resetting the NV RAM changes anything, replace the battery. Very easy to do while changing the drive.
 
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