[X4U] iMac startup problem

[Paul Moortgat]

It shows some horizontal colored lines.  I've not seen it myself.  If  
it was the battery, it would refuse to start and not after the 12th  
time.
When she manage it to work with the iMac, there's not problem anymore  
whatsoever.  She can work for days.

Paul Moortgat

On 23 Jan 2008, at 21:26, Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> Quoting Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be>:
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>> 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?
>>
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> 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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> There are only three kinds of stress . . .your basic nuclear stress,  
> cooking
> stress, and A$$ho1e stress. The key to relating them is . . . Jello.
>
> neil