Major Imac Problem!

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virtual warriorvirtual warrior
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I currently have an Imac Intel core duo 667Mhz, with a Gig of Ram. Two days ago I turned my machine off for a few hours. When I went to reboot it, there was a briefcase with a question mark (?) on it. I rebooted the machine and it came up fine. I used it for the past two days without any prblem. Earlier today, I turned it off and cleaned the work area. When I went toreboot it, the same thing happened.



Once again, I rebooted and it came up. Any idea what is going on. I am running Leopard and have Parallel on this machine as well. (version 3). I haven't had any problems prior to three days ago, so Im at a lost for what is hapening. Please advise or comment.



Thanks



The Virtual Warrior

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    morodmorod Posts: 5member
    Hmmm, a briefcase with a question mark.... Perhaps your iMac is giving you a subtle hint to go to MWSF. Or not. I've never heard of this before. Good luck. You can always call Apple Support to see what they think.

    Morod
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    spinnerlysspinnerlys Posts: 218member
    Do you have an Intel iMac (667MHz would be somewhat low speed for them, I think they start at 1.8 GHz) or an old PowerPC iMac (they had the 667MHz model)?



    I have an PowerPC (PPC) iBook, and sometimes, right after the famous Startup Sound, I see a briefcase with a question mark over it. It doesn't last long, and I think it only means that you Mac is searching for the OS to boot from. Nothing to worry about, but check your S.M.A.R.T. status in Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities/ Disk Utility).



    And if it's an old PPC iMac, check more often maybe, my iBook's S.M.A.R.T. status varies sometimes (and the hard disk already made screaming noises (it ran for 3 years, almost continuously)).



    But if you have an Intel iMac, I have never seen a briefcase before (Intel Alu iMac) during startup.

    Even with BootCamp and one external drive with MacOS on it.



    Could you make a photo?



    And what Mac do you have (speed, RAM, HDD, year of construction)?
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