[X4U] iMac startup problem

[Neil Laubenthal]

Quoting Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be>:

> A family member has an iMac for 5 year.  Now when she needs to restart,
> she has to do it 10-12 times before it will work.
> After the successful restart everything works until the next restart is
> needed.  She now leaves the iMac on all day.  Sleep at night.
> Is this a power supply problem?  Or does she needs to do something else?
>

Depends on what you mean by the unsuccessful restarts. If the built in  
battery is dead . . . then it will default back to some earlier date  
(Steve's birthday in 1944 or 54 maybe?) and may refuse to start from  
the keyboard

If it crashes partway through the boot process . . . then that may be  
another issue.

What exactly is it doing when it "doesn't restart"?





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