iMac not starting

Hi everyone,




I have an iMac9,1 Intel Core 2 Duo (late 2009), and some days ago, while I was turning it off, realized I had a DVD inside that I wanted to remove, so I pressed the eject button and it ejected the DVD just one second before it turned off.

The next time I turned the iMac on, I could hear the hard drive starting, but nothing further than that - no image/light on the screen, and no startup sound.

I then tried to restart it resetting the PRAM (pressing Command, Option, P, and R at startup), and it worked, but the iMac keeps doing this from time to time.


I already ran the Hardware Apple Test (pressing D key at startup), and no problems were found (I did the extended test which took more than one hour).


The last time I turned my iMac on, it did the same thing, but this time, I head three loud BEEPs.


Could it be a RAM memory problem, although the Hardware Test didn’t find any?


Could it be because of ejecting the DVD improperly?...




Thank you all sincerely!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Feb 13, 2012 1:41 PM

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Feb 14, 2012 10:44 PM in response to Clara Jil

Hearing beeps on start-up is one of the last things you want to hear. It's almost always due to some hardware issue (though false positives can happen).


Let's start with the basics here... after the SMC... try to repair permissions when you get back to the desktop.


Also, can you play a bit with CDs & DVDs for a while in the drive? Wondering if you get some weird issues, or if perhaps that may TRIGGER some correction if it's connected.


What DVD did you have in it originally when this problem started?

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