David.G.Henderson

Q: Blank (lighted, but black) screen with cursor at bootup

iMac running Mavericks 10.9.2, went to sleep one night--tried to wake it the next morning, and ever since have had only a blank screen as described above.  A hard restart includes a chime, the apple sign, the spinning wheel, and then a black UNLIT screen.  Pressing a key or clicking the mouse illuminates the black screen and shows the cursor--just as mentioned in the title.  Also, while the cursor is showing, I can hear error sounds if I press a bunch of keyboard keys.

 

Stuff I've tried:

 

1) Boot in safe mode: same results

2) Reset PRAM/NVRAM: same results

3) Boot to Recovery Partition & Repair Disk in Disk Utility: all of this worked, but restart included the same results

4) Re-install Mavericks from Recovery Partition: same results

5) Re-install Mavericks from Bootable Drive: same results

 

What's next?

 

Any help would be great!  Thanks.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 13, 2014 1:55 PM

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