Apple Users
Related: About this forumWell I think my 8 year old iMac just bit the dust......it's just black.....
I turn it on with the button on the back of the screen, it comes on with the little Apple icon, is on for about 5 sec then goes to black. I think it’s dead.

saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)have an external hard drive. My grandson has my back.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(11,263 posts)comes equipped with the original Motorola Chip.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5
Still boots up and runs the Adobe suite of Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.
Slowly but it does. Use my iPad for everything now just can’t get rid of the tower, don’t know why.
brush
(58,815 posts)They can save the data and maybe the machine. At least they'll tell you what's wrong—for free.
That's one advantage of having a Mac.
a kennedy
(32,799 posts)up all the info on the old one.
mitch96
(14,962 posts)Could be the hard drive took a dump.. Time for a new one?? or a referb?? I got a referb iMac and it died after a week. Took it back to the genius bar and the manager just said
"give him a new one"...... Nice ! Good customer service IMHO.
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Freethinker65
(11,177 posts)Luckily my external hard drive had saved everything. No problems since.
a kennedy
(32,799 posts)hoping my time machine will have my backups.....if not, then my last 8 years are all gone.
Going to Apple store tomorrow, plan is to just suck it up and buy another iMac.
eppur_se_muova
(38,315 posts)Scroll down a bit to get to Target Disk Mode, but the other hints might be worth trying too.
a kennedy
(32,799 posts)to do stuff and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’D BE DOING.....I’m just lost even reading this stuff. But thank you for your suggestion.....
Will just take to our Apple store and see if they can deal with it. Wish I could do all that’s suggested.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,447 posts)Sometimes that can fix startup issues. Instructions to boot in Safe Mode
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262