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Tyyper

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Hello, I am using iMac early 2008 and I have been facing this issue a lot recently. My computer won’t start and after it does it won’t take me to password page however, it would start and function normally after a couple of restarts. But today it isn’t working, this issue has been happening for almost 2 months week after week. What can be the solution to this? Any common problems that can cause this?? I have attached a photo of it
 

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MBAir2010

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May 30, 2018
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Hello, I am using iMac early 2008 and I have been facing this issue a lot recently. My computer won’t start and after it does it won’t take me to password page however, it would start and function normally after a couple of restarts. But today it isn’t working, this issue has been happening for almost 2 months week after week. What can be the solution to this? Any common problems that can cause this?? I have attached a photo of it
that is the hard drive failure, just replace the hard drive.
reinstall snow leopard OSX or Time Machine from a back up we made earlier
by pressing the "option key" after the lovely chime and before the logo appears
and will be all set to go!

aint these Macs great computers to have?
 
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Fishrrman

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Feb 20, 2009
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If the drive has failed, it's not worth fixing on a now-15-year-old Mac.

You COULD buy an external USB drive, and boot and run from that, but a 2008 iMac only has USB2, so it's not going to be fast at all.

You got 14+ years of use from the old one.
Probably time to start shopping for a replacement.
Either new, Apple-refurbished, or even used.
 
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