Hi Everyone!
I am a HS EMC director and I was recently able to add 21 new iMacs (they are not the brand new ones with the built in iSight, these were purchased over the summer) to an all PC school, very exciting!!
I am having problems with one of them and was wondering is anyone has any ideas.
During the past 14 days I have had boot problems with one iMac. The first time, a student was working and I think he tried to access too many resources; it froze the system and I wasn't able to force quit any applications. I restarted by holding in the power key and waited 20 seconds to restart. When I did that, the fan kicked up into high and I reached a black screen with text flashing very quickly in the upper left hand corner. I tried to start up from a DiskWarrior CD and run tests. Doing so caused it "freeze" during the 5th step and a message came up saying delay was due read malfunction (something along those lines, I don't remember the exact wording), I tried to do it a second time and had the same results. I tried the Apple CD and ran a hardware test; everything came back okay. I reinstalled the system (I don't have a working image yet, this lab is still a work in progress) and everything was okay.
Today I restarted the same iMac from the log-on window and now the fan kicks up into high again but instead of getting stuck at a black screen I an getting stuck at the gray Apple screen with the darker gray pin-wheel spinning (not the beach ball).
Before I go and reinstall the system again, configure it, and reinstall all of the other software, which is very time consuming, I am wondering if anyone has any ideas? Although some of the details are different, I find it strange that the same computer is having a startup/boot problem after just being reloaded. I read someone having a somewhat similar issue under 10.2 and someone thought it was the logic board.
I am a HS EMC director and I was recently able to add 21 new iMacs (they are not the brand new ones with the built in iSight, these were purchased over the summer) to an all PC school, very exciting!!
I am having problems with one of them and was wondering is anyone has any ideas.
During the past 14 days I have had boot problems with one iMac. The first time, a student was working and I think he tried to access too many resources; it froze the system and I wasn't able to force quit any applications. I restarted by holding in the power key and waited 20 seconds to restart. When I did that, the fan kicked up into high and I reached a black screen with text flashing very quickly in the upper left hand corner. I tried to start up from a DiskWarrior CD and run tests. Doing so caused it "freeze" during the 5th step and a message came up saying delay was due read malfunction (something along those lines, I don't remember the exact wording), I tried to do it a second time and had the same results. I tried the Apple CD and ran a hardware test; everything came back okay. I reinstalled the system (I don't have a working image yet, this lab is still a work in progress) and everything was okay.
Today I restarted the same iMac from the log-on window and now the fan kicks up into high again but instead of getting stuck at a black screen I an getting stuck at the gray Apple screen with the darker gray pin-wheel spinning (not the beach ball).
Before I go and reinstall the system again, configure it, and reinstall all of the other software, which is very time consuming, I am wondering if anyone has any ideas? Although some of the details are different, I find it strange that the same computer is having a startup/boot problem after just being reloaded. I read someone having a somewhat similar issue under 10.2 and someone thought it was the logic board.