09-21-2021, 04:45 AM
I was listening to a YouTuber this morning while playing a game of Mahjong when suddenly the screen went black and all I could hear was an electronic "dit-dit-dit-dit" noise. Okay... I shut it down, waited a minute, tried to restart but the screen had vertical yellow bars on it and the startup progress bar stopped at the midpoint but after several minutes of waiting it would progress no further.
On to Plan B, then: I tried starting it up from an older Installation/Utilities disk I have (an OS this computer ran fine in the past), but it only got about half-way and then the computer started making a loud series of three tones (EEN-EEN-EEN...EEN-EEN-EEN...etc.) that repeated until I shut the computer off again.
I suspect this is a failure of hardware rather than software since it wouldn't start from a disc. Any idea which component may have failed that would cause these symptoms?
Until I get another computer or, if the problem is something simple and easily repairable (Go ahead, laugh, I did as I typed that) I fix the iMac, I'm on my backup computer, a 1.83 GHz Mac Mini. Woo-Hoo!
On to Plan B, then: I tried starting it up from an older Installation/Utilities disk I have (an OS this computer ran fine in the past), but it only got about half-way and then the computer started making a loud series of three tones (EEN-EEN-EEN...EEN-EEN-EEN...etc.) that repeated until I shut the computer off again.
I suspect this is a failure of hardware rather than software since it wouldn't start from a disc. Any idea which component may have failed that would cause these symptoms?
Until I get another computer or, if the problem is something simple and easily repairable (Go ahead, laugh, I did as I typed that) I fix the iMac, I'm on my backup computer, a 1.83 GHz Mac Mini. Woo-Hoo!