Imac, intel won't start - help pleae

[judderman62]

HI all

Hoping someone can help - my imac (approx 15-18 months old , intel) won't start.

Last night on shutting down DPP (canon Digital image software) was hanging and system asked me if I wanted to force quit it...sadly I had switched off my bluetooth mouse and , as usually once mouse turned off switching it back on it never re connects - why did I buy the bletooth mouse and keyboard ?, so I could not confirm yes force quit - is there no way of selecting with keyboard like there is in windows ?

So I switched off at power switch. Tried to re switch on - grey screen came up, apple logo, the little timer circle but after a while timer circle stopped and nothing further happened.

have tried several more times and now don't even get timer.

Can anyone please help :-(

thanks very much

J

 

[spinnerlys]

Mac doesn't boot

Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck


Troubleshooting: My computer won't turn on

 

[judderman62]

thanks for those - have printed them off and will have a go when I get home.

thanks very much

 

[DannyBres]

Im sure you can use the keyboard to select things like windows!

 

[judderman62]

didn't work last night

tried tab, tried right arrow, tried up and down arrow (after all Mac like to be different and obtuse)

None of above worked

 

[Giuly]

Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts.
Turn on Mouse Keys and have a look at Application and other Mac OS X keyboard commands. Also have a look at the physical accessibility page.