What's Wrong with My iMac?

From	Davoud <star@sky.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	What's Wrong with My iMac?
Date	2015-02-12 13:31 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<120220151331501617%star@sky.net> (permalink)

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27", latest Yosemite, lots of RAM. 3-4 y.o., has been working
flawlessly.

The machine won't boot. After the startup chime a progress bar creeps
along for a moment or so, then the Apple logo and the progress bar
disappear and a gray screen appears. After a minute or two the machine
reboots with the same results.

Remedies tried: remove *all* peripherals. Attempt to boot from two
different external FW drives that are known to have good systems, as
both can boot another iMac and both were able to boot the ailing iMac
before its troubles began. Results as above.

I can run fsck, which reports no problems, but upon reboot the results
are the same as above.

When my wife first told me the machine had problems I was able to boot
from the latest Disk Warrior thumb drive and rebuild/replace the
directory. Now the machine won't boot from the DW drive.

Gotta be a hardware problem, no?

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What's Wrong with My iMac? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-02-12 13:31 -0500
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-12 18:34 +0000
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-12 16:48 -0500
    Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-02-12 21:31 -0500
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-02-12 18:53 -0500
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-13 08:28 +0000
    Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-13 09:20 -0500
      Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-14 10:42 +0000
        Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-14 08:34 -0500
          Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-02-14 10:49 -0500
            Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-15 01:07 +0000
            Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-15 08:37 -0500
          Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-15 01:06 +0000
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-02-14 10:53 -0800
    Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-02-15 09:16 +1300
    Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-02-14 15:42 -0500
      Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-02-14 16:24 -0800
        Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-02-15 13:39 +1300
      Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-14 20:03 -0500
        Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-02-14 17:56 -0800
          Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-02-14 23:00 -0500
            Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-02-15 00:08 -0800
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2015-02-17 17:20 -0500
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-18 18:55 -0500
  Re: What's Wrong with My iMac? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-18 19:16 -0500

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