Hello,
My grandad gave me his old 2007 iMac last year, i have been using it since and it works just fine, the only problem is that it can't play back 60fps (stutters ALOT), this is due to the underpowered graphics card (specs below). My friend has an 2008 iMac which he doesn't use anymore and it has a Nvidia 8800 graphics card which should be much better. I picked it up yesterday, booted it up, progress bar gets to around 50% then freezes, I opened it up and swaped the hard drive out for the one in my 2007 imac (2tb seagate sshd, completely formated), turned the 2008 iMac on and same thing. So I searched all over the internet for fixes and tried all these:
-tried booting in recovery mode
-tried booting in the internal recovery drive
-tried booting onto a osx el capitain bottable usb drive
-reseted PRAM
-reseted SMC
-tried booting into safe mode
-used different ram sticks
All of these just ended up getting stuck during boot, the only time i was able to get the computer past the grey apple logo screen was when I booted into single user mode, on which I runned: -fsck -fy It returned that my drive was OK. I then tried booting into Apple Hardware Test but holding the D (with or without the alt key too) key down to which it would just go to the grey apple logo boot screen. I was able to enter AHT by making a AHT bootable thumb drive, booted onto it (held alt down) ran the short test and the long test and both returned no errors.
I'm really out of ideas, please help, this is definetly not a hard drive issue so i would think it's a graphics card or logic board issue, I'm willing to replace any part as i have identical parts in my 2007 iMac except for graphics card.
Oh and there was these 2 times where i tried booting into recovery mode, the bar got stuck but i heard "If u wish to use English as your main language, please hit enter" out of the speakers or something like that.
Specs:
iMac Mid 2007
Introduction Date: August 7, 2007 Discontinued Date: April 28, 2008
Processors: 1 (2 Cores) Architecture: 64-Bit
Geekbench 2 (32): 3703 Geekbench 2 (64): 4117
Geekbench 3 (32): 1437 Geekbench 3 (32): 2522
Geekbench 3 (64): 1591 Geekbench 3 (64): 2804
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Processor Type: Core 2 Extreme* (X7900)
Turbo Boost: N/A Custom Speeds: N/A
Processor Upgrade: ZIF Socket FPU: Integrated
System Bus Speed: 800 MHz Cache Bus Speed: 2.8 GHz (Built-in)
ROM/Firmware Type: EFI EFI Architecture: 64-Bit
L1 Cache: 32k/32k L2/L3 Cache: 4 MB (on chip)
RAM Type: PC2-5300 DDR2 Min. RAM Speed: 667 MHz
Standard RAM: 2 GB Maximum RAM: 6 GB*
Motherboard RAM: None RAM Slots: 2
Video Card: Radeon HD 2600 PRO VRAM Type: GDDR3
Standard VRAM: 256 MB Maximum VRAM: 256 MB
Built-in Display: 24.0" Widescreen Native Resolution: 1920x1200
2nd Display Support: Dual/Mirroring 2nd Max. Resolution: 1920x1200*
Standard Hard Drive: 500 GB (7200 RPM) Int. HD Interface: Serial ATA (3 Gb/s)
Standard Optical: 8X DL "SuperDrive" Standard Disk: None
Standard Modem: None Standard Ethernet: 10/100/1000Base-T
Standard AirPort: 802.11a/b/g/n Standard Bluetooth: 2.0+EDR
USB Ports: 3 (2.0) Firewire Ports: 1 (400), 1 (800)
Expansion Slots: None Expansion Bays: None
Incl. Keyboard: Apple Aluminum Keyboard Incl. Input: Mighty Mouse
Case Type: All-in-One Form Factor: iMac Core 2 Duo 24" (Al)
Apple Order No: BTO/CTO Apple Subfamily: Mid-2007 - 24"
Apple Model No: A1225 (EMC 2134) Model ID: iMac7,1
Battery Type: N/A Battery Life: N/A
Pre-Installed MacOS: X 10.4.10 (8R4031) Maximum MacOS: Current*
Minimum Windows: XP SP2 (32-Bit)* Maximum Windows: 7 (32-Bit)*
MacOS 9 Support: None Windows Support: Boot/Virtualization
Dimensions: 20.5 x 22.4 x 8.1 Avg. Weight: 25.4 lbs. (11.5 kg)
Original Price (US): US$2299 Est. Current Retail: US$600-US$750
iMac 2008:
Introduction Date: April 28, 2008 Discontinued Date: March 3, 2009
Processors: 1 (2 Cores) Architecture: 64-Bit
Geekbench 2 (32): 4113 Geekbench 2 (64): 4602
Geekbench 3 (32): 1644 Geekbench 3 (32): 2910
Geekbench 3 (64): 1803 Geekbench 3 (64): 3247
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz Processor Type: Core 2 Duo (E8435)
Turbo Boost: N/A Custom Speeds: N/A
Processor Upgrade: ZIF Socket FPU: Integrated
System Bus Speed: 1066 MHz Cache Bus Speed: 3.06 GHz (Built-in)
ROM/Firmware Type: EFI EFI Architecture: 64-Bit
L1 Cache: 32k/32k L2/L3 Cache: 6 MB (on chip)
RAM Type: PC2-6400 DDR2 Min. RAM Speed: 800 MHz
Standard RAM: 2 GB Maximum RAM: 6 GB*
Motherboard RAM: None RAM Slots: 2
Video Card: GeForce 8800 GS VRAM Type: GDDR3
Standard VRAM: 512 MB Maximum VRAM: 512 MB
Built-in Display: 24.0" Widescreen Native Resolution: 1920x1200
2nd Display Support: Dual/Mirroring 2nd Max. Resolution: 1920x1200*
Standard Hard Drive: 500 GB (7200 RPM) Int. HD Interface: Serial ATA (3 Gb/s)
Standard Optical: 8X DL "SuperDrive" Standard Disk: None
Standard Modem: None Standard Ethernet: 10/100/1000Base-T
Standard AirPort: 802.11a/b/g/n Standard Bluetooth: 2.1+EDR
USB Ports: 3 (2.0) Firewire Ports: 1 (400), 1 (800)
Expansion Slots: None Expansion Bays: None
Incl. Keyboard: Apple Aluminum Keyboard Incl. Input: Mighty Mouse
Case Type: All-in-One Form Factor: iMac Core 2 Duo (Al)
Apple Order No: MB398LL/A Apple Subfamily: Early 2008
Apple Model No: A1225 (EMC 2211) Model ID: iMac8,1
Battery Type: N/A Battery Life: N/A
Pre-Installed MacOS: X 10.5.2 (9C2028) Maximum MacOS: Current*
Minimum Windows: XP SP2 (32-Bit)* Maximum Windows: 7 (32-Bit)*
MacOS 9 Support: None Windows Support: Boot/Virtualization
Dimensions: 20.5 x 22.4 x 8.1 Avg. Weight: 25.4 lbs. (11.5 kg)
Original Price (US): US$2199 Est. Current Retail: US$700-US$850
Please confirm what part is the problem here,
Thanks in advance
My grandad gave me his old 2007 iMac last year, i have been using it since and it works just fine, the only problem is that it can't play back 60fps (stutters ALOT), this is due to the underpowered graphics card (specs below). My friend has an 2008 iMac which he doesn't use anymore and it has a Nvidia 8800 graphics card which should be much better. I picked it up yesterday, booted it up, progress bar gets to around 50% then freezes, I opened it up and swaped the hard drive out for the one in my 2007 imac (2tb seagate sshd, completely formated), turned the 2008 iMac on and same thing. So I searched all over the internet for fixes and tried all these:
-tried booting in recovery mode
-tried booting in the internal recovery drive
-tried booting onto a osx el capitain bottable usb drive
-reseted PRAM
-reseted SMC
-tried booting into safe mode
-used different ram sticks
All of these just ended up getting stuck during boot, the only time i was able to get the computer past the grey apple logo screen was when I booted into single user mode, on which I runned: -fsck -fy It returned that my drive was OK. I then tried booting into Apple Hardware Test but holding the D (with or without the alt key too) key down to which it would just go to the grey apple logo boot screen. I was able to enter AHT by making a AHT bootable thumb drive, booted onto it (held alt down) ran the short test and the long test and both returned no errors.
I'm really out of ideas, please help, this is definetly not a hard drive issue so i would think it's a graphics card or logic board issue, I'm willing to replace any part as i have identical parts in my 2007 iMac except for graphics card.
Oh and there was these 2 times where i tried booting into recovery mode, the bar got stuck but i heard "If u wish to use English as your main language, please hit enter" out of the speakers or something like that.
Specs:
iMac Mid 2007
Introduction Date: August 7, 2007 Discontinued Date: April 28, 2008
Processors: 1 (2 Cores) Architecture: 64-Bit
Geekbench 2 (32): 3703 Geekbench 2 (64): 4117
Geekbench 3 (32): 1437 Geekbench 3 (32): 2522
Geekbench 3 (64): 1591 Geekbench 3 (64): 2804
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Processor Type: Core 2 Extreme* (X7900)
Turbo Boost: N/A Custom Speeds: N/A
Processor Upgrade: ZIF Socket FPU: Integrated
System Bus Speed: 800 MHz Cache Bus Speed: 2.8 GHz (Built-in)
ROM/Firmware Type: EFI EFI Architecture: 64-Bit
L1 Cache: 32k/32k L2/L3 Cache: 4 MB (on chip)
RAM Type: PC2-5300 DDR2 Min. RAM Speed: 667 MHz
Standard RAM: 2 GB Maximum RAM: 6 GB*
Motherboard RAM: None RAM Slots: 2
Video Card: Radeon HD 2600 PRO VRAM Type: GDDR3
Standard VRAM: 256 MB Maximum VRAM: 256 MB
Built-in Display: 24.0" Widescreen Native Resolution: 1920x1200
2nd Display Support: Dual/Mirroring 2nd Max. Resolution: 1920x1200*
Standard Hard Drive: 500 GB (7200 RPM) Int. HD Interface: Serial ATA (3 Gb/s)
Standard Optical: 8X DL "SuperDrive" Standard Disk: None
Standard Modem: None Standard Ethernet: 10/100/1000Base-T
Standard AirPort: 802.11a/b/g/n Standard Bluetooth: 2.0+EDR
USB Ports: 3 (2.0) Firewire Ports: 1 (400), 1 (800)
Expansion Slots: None Expansion Bays: None
Incl. Keyboard: Apple Aluminum Keyboard Incl. Input: Mighty Mouse
Case Type: All-in-One Form Factor: iMac Core 2 Duo 24" (Al)
Apple Order No: BTO/CTO Apple Subfamily: Mid-2007 - 24"
Apple Model No: A1225 (EMC 2134) Model ID: iMac7,1
Battery Type: N/A Battery Life: N/A
Pre-Installed MacOS: X 10.4.10 (8R4031) Maximum MacOS: Current*
Minimum Windows: XP SP2 (32-Bit)* Maximum Windows: 7 (32-Bit)*
MacOS 9 Support: None Windows Support: Boot/Virtualization
Dimensions: 20.5 x 22.4 x 8.1 Avg. Weight: 25.4 lbs. (11.5 kg)
Original Price (US): US$2299 Est. Current Retail: US$600-US$750
iMac 2008:
Introduction Date: April 28, 2008 Discontinued Date: March 3, 2009
Processors: 1 (2 Cores) Architecture: 64-Bit
Geekbench 2 (32): 4113 Geekbench 2 (64): 4602
Geekbench 3 (32): 1644 Geekbench 3 (32): 2910
Geekbench 3 (64): 1803 Geekbench 3 (64): 3247
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz Processor Type: Core 2 Duo (E8435)
Turbo Boost: N/A Custom Speeds: N/A
Processor Upgrade: ZIF Socket FPU: Integrated
System Bus Speed: 1066 MHz Cache Bus Speed: 3.06 GHz (Built-in)
ROM/Firmware Type: EFI EFI Architecture: 64-Bit
L1 Cache: 32k/32k L2/L3 Cache: 6 MB (on chip)
RAM Type: PC2-6400 DDR2 Min. RAM Speed: 800 MHz
Standard RAM: 2 GB Maximum RAM: 6 GB*
Motherboard RAM: None RAM Slots: 2
Video Card: GeForce 8800 GS VRAM Type: GDDR3
Standard VRAM: 512 MB Maximum VRAM: 512 MB
Built-in Display: 24.0" Widescreen Native Resolution: 1920x1200
2nd Display Support: Dual/Mirroring 2nd Max. Resolution: 1920x1200*
Standard Hard Drive: 500 GB (7200 RPM) Int. HD Interface: Serial ATA (3 Gb/s)
Standard Optical: 8X DL "SuperDrive" Standard Disk: None
Standard Modem: None Standard Ethernet: 10/100/1000Base-T
Standard AirPort: 802.11a/b/g/n Standard Bluetooth: 2.1+EDR
USB Ports: 3 (2.0) Firewire Ports: 1 (400), 1 (800)
Expansion Slots: None Expansion Bays: None
Incl. Keyboard: Apple Aluminum Keyboard Incl. Input: Mighty Mouse
Case Type: All-in-One Form Factor: iMac Core 2 Duo (Al)
Apple Order No: MB398LL/A Apple Subfamily: Early 2008
Apple Model No: A1225 (EMC 2211) Model ID: iMac8,1
Battery Type: N/A Battery Life: N/A
Pre-Installed MacOS: X 10.5.2 (9C2028) Maximum MacOS: Current*
Minimum Windows: XP SP2 (32-Bit)* Maximum Windows: 7 (32-Bit)*
MacOS 9 Support: None Windows Support: Boot/Virtualization
Dimensions: 20.5 x 22.4 x 8.1 Avg. Weight: 25.4 lbs. (11.5 kg)
Original Price (US): US$2199 Est. Current Retail: US$700-US$850
Please confirm what part is the problem here,
Thanks in advance