is my iMac dead?
a week or so ago Flash quit working in Safari and applications started crashing. I posted my issues here and was advised to do an archive and reinstall after running disk utility.. everything went smoothly and after all of my updates were completed it worked wonderfully again, for a day... then gradually it would get bogged down (extended moments where it was thinking and i got to watch the beachball spin) and sometimes i would then start experiencing program crashes (Safari, iChat, Mail)
well, earlier today this behavior occurred so I quit my open programs, rebooted the computer in single user mode, ran fsck -fy and after three passes it repaired the issues. after the reboot it asked me to log in, which it has never done before but it did boot to the desktop. I launched Mail, iChat and iTunes and then Safari ... after three minutes the beachball came up and then the OS crashed! ! ! ...with the several Macs i've owned over the years, i have never seen this happen before... the spinning wheel you seen below the apple when your computer starts up came up on the screen and then everything disappeared and all that remained was a BLUE SCREEN and my mouse cursor...
no button combination worked. pressing the power button seemed to only put it into sleep and it would 'awake' to the blue screen when I pressed a key. so I unplugged everything from it and let it sit for about 10 minutes. plugged in the mouse and keyboard and I have not been able to get it to reboot since.
it only boots to the blank white screen. i cannot access single user more with Command-S, I am unable to boot from the CD, I have tried flashing the PRAM but that doesn't work either. as far as I can tell it is dead.
earlier I had thought that perhaps the 1Gb of RAM wasn't enough or maybe my stick was going bad... the HD isn't making any clicking sounds... aside from not booting the computer seemed fine. my HD has about 90Gb of free space... the only keyboard command that seems to work is holding Eject was able to get my restore CD out of it
so... what do i do? is there anything i'm missing? please help. 😟
iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8)