Well I think my 8 year old iMac just bit the dust......it's just black.....

[a kennedy]

I turn it on with the button on the back of the screen, it comes on with the little Apple icon, is on for about 5 sec then goes to black. I think it’s dead.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. This why we need to

have an external hard drive. My grandson has my back.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Wanna buy my 15 yo G5 tower

comes equipped with the original Motorola Chip.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5

Still boots up and runs the Adobe suite of Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.

Slowly but it does. Use my iPad for everything now just can’t get rid of the tower, don’t know why.

[brush]

3. Take it to the nearest Apple store, along with an external hard drive.

They can save the data and maybe the machine. At least they'll tell you what's wrong—for free.

That's one advantage of having a Mac.

[a kennedy]

10. Yah, we took it there, and it cost of 75.00 for them to even look at it, and another 60.00 to back

up all the info on the old one.

[mitch96]

4. Hope you backed it up!!

Could be the hard drive took a dump.. Time for a new one?? or a referb?? I got a referb iMac and it died after a week. Took it back to the genius bar and the manager just said
"give him a new one"...... Nice ! Good customer service IMHO.
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[Freethinker65]

5. I had to have my hard drive replaced a few years ago. They called it a "vintage" system. Hahaha

Luckily my external hard drive had saved everything. No problems since.

[a kennedy]

6. Don't have an external hard drive.....

hoping my time machine will have my backups.....if not, then my last 8 years are all gone. Going to Apple store tomorrow, plan is to just suck it up and buy another iMac.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Can you boot it in Target Disk mode ?

https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/104816

Scroll down a bit to get to Target Disk Mode, but the other hints might be worth trying too.

[a kennedy]

8. OMGOSH eppur_se_muova.......all that looks so great, but you're asking me

to do stuff and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’D BE DOING.....I’m just lost even reading this stuff. But thank you for your suggestion..... Will just take to our Apple store and see if they can deal with it. Wish I could do all that’s suggested.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Does it do that when you boot in Safe Mode?

Sometimes that can fix startup issues. Instructions to boot in Safe Mode

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262