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- 1234 October 2013
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dead computer
I need some advice.
My iMac died. More specifically, it shows a flashing folder with a question mark whenever I try to turn it on. I googled all the possible diagnostic steps but the comp did not respond to any of them. So I took it on in to the mac store yesterday and they say it's most likely a failed hard drive. If this is so, it will cost me upwards of $400 to replace said hard drive. It's a 2009 iMac - not that old.
Anyway, I'm just wondering if anyone out there who knows about computers can help me figure out if this is just the way it's gonna be for me or if there might be some other option for hard drive replacement. The dude at the store said that for some reason I'm going to need an apple hard drive, not another third party (cheaper) one, because of the way my computer was built?
The good news is I backed up relatively recently (April - that's recent for me) and I don't use it that often so I'm not going to pay the Apple people $99 to back me up.
Thanks for your help, UHX!
My iMac died. More specifically, it shows a flashing folder with a question mark whenever I try to turn it on. I googled all the possible diagnostic steps but the comp did not respond to any of them. So I took it on in to the mac store yesterday and they say it's most likely a failed hard drive. If this is so, it will cost me upwards of $400 to replace said hard drive. It's a 2009 iMac - not that old.
Anyway, I'm just wondering if anyone out there who knows about computers can help me figure out if this is just the way it's gonna be for me or if there might be some other option for hard drive replacement. The dude at the store said that for some reason I'm going to need an apple hard drive, not another third party (cheaper) one, because of the way my computer was built?
The good news is I backed up relatively recently (April - that's recent for me) and I don't use it that often so I'm not going to pay the Apple people $99 to back me up.
Thanks for your help, UHX!
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(you'll want to double check that it's the right model, but the ifixit site has instructions for other models, too).
http://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive/
If it's not, from a couple of forums it sounds like these iMacs potentially used some hard drive with some proprietary Apple firmware…but I agree with Curt, I bet you could find one online and get somebody tech-savvy here to help replace it yourself to save money. I could perhaps do this. Not sure how complex the internals are on these iMacs, though.
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5113645?start=0&tstart=0
Thank you!
Why would he do that? I don't understand it. No complaints, though!
My MacBook Pro isn't dead, but might as well be. Ever since I upgraded to Maverick, the ol' girl is five-times slow. It is a bummer. I mainly just use the machine to make and play music on.
It is running 10.9.3 and Has a 2.6 Gx Intel Core i7, with 8GB 1600 MHz DDr3 ram and a 850 Gig HD with 251GB available.
I tried using CleanMyMac and it didn't do a whole lot...
Should I buy an external wireless HD and store music on that to save space? (I do use an ext. drive for time machine - so at least I'm backed up.)
I heard someone say that non SSD computers crawl on Maverick and we're just screwed.
Should I see if I have Apple Care and take it in? If so, how do I do that? I think I bought it...
It's so crazy that I was able to make music on a lappy in 06 with all kinds of plugins and now I'm using hardware and running into issues with my sexy late 2012 computer.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
ableton 8
paranoid about os upgrades, always too broke to get ableton 9 upgrade
doin fine
what mavericks got to do with me? im no big wave surfer