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denem

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5. Heres a suggestion.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 25, 2013, 12:24 AM

Apr 2013

1. Reset Parameter Ram
2. Boot holding down Option and select the recovery partition. If you don't have a recovery partition, attach another mac by a firewire cable. Boot the other mac in Target Disk mode, then restart iMac holding down Option, and select the other mac's boot disk.
3. Run Disk Utility (or DiskWarrior if you have it) on the iMacs boot disk.
4. Shutdown.
5. Reboot the iMac in Safe/Disk Check mode (Hold down shift on startup)
6. If you get to the desktop give it a few minutes then shutdown.
7. Then try a cold start.

Good luck.

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Printer issue/System resent issue [View all] Stinky The Clown Apr 2013 OP

I had something similar with an older laptop. ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2013 #1

We had all six computers on the network lose the printer at the same time. Stinky The Clown Apr 2013 #2

Reset parameter ram (PRAM) fpublic Apr 2013 #3

There might be more going on with this one. Now it won't start up. Stinky The Clown Apr 2013 #4

Heres a suggestion. denem Apr 2013 #5

We actually tried most of that. Ultimately I took it in to the Apple Store. Stinky The Clown Apr 2013 #6