09-07-2014, 01:02 AM
my buddy has a '09 iMac. Last month he updated to 10.9.4.
He had also, unfortunately, installed AVG for Mac. How he bought that hoodwink I'll never understand.
AVG was doing it's thing the other night, found some issue that it went to "repair".
And it never stopped. He shut it down before too long, but not soon enough to have a mess.
Wouldn't start up today.
Wouldn't safe boot on the wireless Apple keyboard (new batts), or pRam zap, or Recovery or etc.
His son has a Logitech G710+ gaming keyboard. He used that to boot into Startup Manager (opt/alt) and he saw Recovery from TM, re-install onto Mac HD and the DVD install disc (10.6.2). It would not boot Single, Safe or any other as before with the Apple kb.
He ran Disk Uts and repaired disc and perms. All was normal there. Tried to re-boot. Nada.
Booted into Start-up Manager again. Choose re-install this time (no TM ever done ...... of course).
It goes thru all the motions, but when it reboots, it's back to the spinning gear on the gray screen.
He doesn't have another Mac there to target with, nor any other wired USB kb.
Off course it won't start-up any more from his DVD as there was a firmware change since.
Ideas, suggestions or time for a genius?
He had also, unfortunately, installed AVG for Mac. How he bought that hoodwink I'll never understand.
AVG was doing it's thing the other night, found some issue that it went to "repair".
And it never stopped. He shut it down before too long, but not soon enough to have a mess.
Wouldn't start up today.
Wouldn't safe boot on the wireless Apple keyboard (new batts), or pRam zap, or Recovery or etc.
His son has a Logitech G710+ gaming keyboard. He used that to boot into Startup Manager (opt/alt) and he saw Recovery from TM, re-install onto Mac HD and the DVD install disc (10.6.2). It would not boot Single, Safe or any other as before with the Apple kb.
He ran Disk Uts and repaired disc and perms. All was normal there. Tried to re-boot. Nada.
Booted into Start-up Manager again. Choose re-install this time (no TM ever done ...... of course).
It goes thru all the motions, but when it reboots, it's back to the spinning gear on the gray screen.
He doesn't have another Mac there to target with, nor any other wired USB kb.
Off course it won't start-up any more from his DVD as there was a firmware change since.
Ideas, suggestions or time for a genius?
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