Unable to boot up - Page 2

**Giaguara** · #9 January 8th, 2009, 08:01 PM

I think the installer may have been broken, or something went wrong on applying that update. Windowserver can't be connected to; usually the UI server and client are with different versions or one of them have something broken when this happens.

Do you have another Mac or can you get access to another Mac? If that is possible, mount this system in target mode, and install the combo update in target mode. That should force the UI server parts be the same and functional on both sides.

epiazza · #10 January 9th, 2009, 03:39 PM

bad news on my end. although the logic board passed the hardware test, the capacitors on the logic board (they look like mini batteries...?) were not all flat. because mine was a first generation iMac, it wasn't an intel processor. the old processors get really hot, and so, in time, the capacitors start "popping off." the "genius" at the apple store said that the first 2 things they check on 1st gen iMacs are the power unit and the capacitors on the logic board.

try popping off the back of your machine and looking at those silver battery looking things on the green logic board. they should be flat and flush. if not, they're about to go (or have already gone...). hope this helps...

-the proud (and now broke) owner of a new iMac...

Doctor X · #11 January 9th, 2009, 09:26 PM

--J.D.

rmeaux · #12 January 11th, 2009, 10:50 PM

Man My iMac G5 20' just blew this morning. I had my power supply replace about 6 months ago. I went to get on my imac and it was dead. First thing I did was take the cover off and do the little LED test, but I noticed my popped capacitors before anything else. Sucks but I got to order a 24" 3.06 GHz. WooHoo.