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Mac Mini boots 10 percent and stucks

Hi,

I turned on the computer, it loaded completely and then restarted itself unexpectedly, but did not load. Just stuck in about 10 percent with load indicator.

I've read a lot about this before posting this. I did PRAM, SMC, Safe boot and all other boots, Disk Utility, etc. I even replaced hard drives, wiped out the system, did Recovery and clean install. I replace RAM, no third party parts, etc. I did Apple hardware Test, including extended one, it shows no errors.

The thing is that it works in safe mode fine and there is no disk problems at all, like permissions, repair, etc. All tests show it is perfect, but it does not start in normal mode.

I am ready to follow any help, do tests, publish them here, but want to fix that. Thank you.

Alex.

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 14, 2015 5:04 AM

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Tikhanksiy Author

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Mar 14, 2015 5:26 PM in response to Linc Davis

Ok. So if it's hardware, I can't do anything about that. It means I go to repair shop to Apple who just tend to replace the logic board?

I did Apple Hardware Extended Test and it shows no any errors.

Linc Davis

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Mar 14, 2015 7:19 PM in response to Tikhanksiy

The hardware test is almost completely useless. If the facts are as you've stated, there is a hardware fault. That's all I can tell you. Good luck.

Tikhanksiy Author

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Mar 15, 2015 2:14 AM in response to Linc Davis

Anyway, thank you for the attempt to help. I'll let forum know when after repair at Apple what was it.

Mar 15, 2015 6:33 AM in response to Tikhanksiy

Hi all,

I got a similar error with my macmini5,2. I tried a lot of stuffs to figure out whats going on (Recovery with disks, internet recovery, hardware test, boot with thunderbolt with a macbook, update firmware in single user mode), but nothing was useful to fix my mac. I installed Fedora 21 on it, and Fedora works well 😟.

I got some clues after using Davis's script. Davis, do you can checkout my mac results? http://pastebin.com/LH6UL2ey

PS: I executed the script in single user mode because my mac can't load OSX in normal mode or safe mode.

Mac Mini boots 10 percent and stucks