Help, can not boot from DVD

[mikeg135]

well this is an ongoing saga with my iMac. looks like my third hard drive has gone south after 4 years. All Seagate Barracuda drives.

but now I can not even boot from the the snow leopard dvd to at least run the disk utility. I tried the following:

holding down 'c' and nothing
hold down options and I get the mouse cursor but nothing else.

any suggestions?

 

[MacHamster68]

i say it diplomatic , that is what seagate are best in and well known for ....
there are other manufacturers out there more known for reliability then for cheap per GB ....Western Digital, hitachi, samsung

and yes ibm sold their harddrive division to hitachi which turned around the best known for failing ibm deskstar(deathstar ) . into hitachi deskstar's to one of the most reliable and very quiet harddrives
but that left a gap in the market for the least reliable drives formerly occupied by ibm and seagate was happy to fill that gap

western digitals had since i can remember only be known for good quality drives so did samsung , their spinpoints are one of the most quiet drives too

 

[Hellhammer]

Try SMC and PRAM reset