Hello...
i own a 24'' G5 iMac iSight(2007mid) , 2.2ghz intel based dual core 1gb of RAM 250gb of HDD space.
Yesterday night i started to download a movie and after like 2 minutes my iMac suddenly got freezed,the colorate circle was rotating till like 10 min but nothing..total wipeout.So after that i shutted down the machine by holding the power button for 5 sec.I waited like 20sec and i started it again...but it didn't wanted to start again.When i press the power button i hear the starting sound and after that the gray/white screen pops up and nothing happens...after 2 3 minutes the apple logo appears but the circle is not rotating under it, i leave it like that and after 2 3 minutes the machine Restarts.
i mention that i used the fallowing commands to start up:
shift - safe mode/single user mode --> not responding
command s --> not responding
holding d --> not responding
holding x --> not responding
practically told my iMac is responding only for one key combo which is the PRAM reset command-option-P-R.
i tried to unplug all cables things, SMU reset , PMU Reset....--> not responding.
but my biggest Problem comes now...
When i insert the original Mac OS X Leopard disc and i start the machine and holding the C button --> not responding...infact after like 2 minutes it ejects the disc.
After that i tried to start the machine and hold the option/alt key to enter boot manager and select the boot device manually...but the problem is still continuing..after the mouse pointer appears the machine stays like that for like 3 minutes and after that the CD drive and the HDD appears.i click on the CD drive to boot it but nothing happens...the machine freezes again...and after 5 minutes it ejects the CD and restarts.same thing happens when i choose as boot device the HDD.
Please help me out with some tips if you know some...i will apriciate it.
ps:my opinion is that the HDD drive failed. --> but why the hell i cant BOOT from the CD? :O
i own a 24'' G5 iMac iSight(2007mid) , 2.2ghz intel based dual core 1gb of RAM 250gb of HDD space.
Yesterday night i started to download a movie and after like 2 minutes my iMac suddenly got freezed,the colorate circle was rotating till like 10 min but nothing..total wipeout.So after that i shutted down the machine by holding the power button for 5 sec.I waited like 20sec and i started it again...but it didn't wanted to start again.When i press the power button i hear the starting sound and after that the gray/white screen pops up and nothing happens...after 2 3 minutes the apple logo appears but the circle is not rotating under it, i leave it like that and after 2 3 minutes the machine Restarts.
i mention that i used the fallowing commands to start up:
shift - safe mode/single user mode --> not responding
command s --> not responding
holding d --> not responding
holding x --> not responding
practically told my iMac is responding only for one key combo which is the PRAM reset command-option-P-R.
i tried to unplug all cables things, SMU reset , PMU Reset....--> not responding.
but my biggest Problem comes now...
When i insert the original Mac OS X Leopard disc and i start the machine and holding the C button --> not responding...infact after like 2 minutes it ejects the disc.
After that i tried to start the machine and hold the option/alt key to enter boot manager and select the boot device manually...but the problem is still continuing..after the mouse pointer appears the machine stays like that for like 3 minutes and after that the CD drive and the HDD appears.i click on the CD drive to boot it but nothing happens...the machine freezes again...and after 5 minutes it ejects the CD and restarts.same thing happens when i choose as boot device the HDD.
Please help me out with some tips if you know some...i will apriciate it.
ps:my opinion is that the HDD drive failed. --> but why the hell i cant BOOT from the CD? :O