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Mac Broken?



  Inferno 182 CUP
My Mac mini won't boot

Stuck at the spinning wheel ..

I have reset pram and smc and tried booting into safe mode.

Any ideas?
 
  182 Trophy #333
I've seen many a Mac startup and fail to boot / Spinny wheel and its been the RAM at fault, same as with a windows PC if the rams at fault it can successfully boot windows and will randomly BSOD, depends if its the entire RAM module or just one of the chips!
 
  Inferno 182 CUP
Problem I have is lion needs 2gb to run. If I remove a ram module it's on 1gb and won't boot anyway lol

f**k.
 

Jack!

ClioSport Club Member
Were you doing anything last time you used it?

I have a fair bit of experience messing around with Bootloaders etc, and the constant spinning wheel in my experience is often down to missing strings in the boot.plist, if you could get past the spinning wheel you may be able to mess around with/restore your old .plist?

I would download iBoot and use that to try and get past the spinning wheel.

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

My experience comes from many installs of OS X onto PC's, but I'm assuming iBoot will work for Mac's as well as PC's, given that it is Apple's own "Recovery Mode" bootloader as detailed here: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IBoot_(Bootloader) and here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iboot/

EDIT: Failing all that, it's probably a hardware compatibility issue, but again you won't really be able to resolve it without getting past the spinning circle.
 
  Inferno 182 CUP
I've just tried installing a recovery to another external drive and that too says 121 hours?!

So aurely this means it isn't the drive?
 
  182 Trophy #333
Have a Google, I'm sure there's a memtest for Mac if not a built in way of testing the RAM, sorry I don't work on macs as much as I do windows machines so I'm a bit vague!
 
  Inferno 182 CUP
For anyone interested

I formatted the original ssd and reinstalled lion today as a fresh install

All working as normal again!
 


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