I was given an aluminum imac with the model number A1224 and EMC 2210. It will turn on and I get the light blue apple icon screen but it does not boot up or anything else.. It will not let me insert a disc. It seems like there is a disc or something stuck inside.
I want to insert an install disc to get it to boot up. I want to know how to get it to eject it if it is a disc or any other suggestions that might help.
To eject an optical disc at startup, hold down the mouse key on a wired mouse immediately after turning the iMac on with the power button. Keep it held down until the disc ejects, which should occur within two minutes. If you hear the disc trying to eject but failing, it is physically jammed in the drive and will have to be removed by a professional technician.
Testimonial: "thank you it worked great. It took about 10 seconds to get it to eject. Now I have to get it to boot it up. I dont know anything about the os on this computer and I have a have tiger 10.4.11 and 10.6.2 snow leaopard install disc. Which should I use."
I suspect Tiger is too old an OS to boot an Aluminum iMac. A 10.6.2 Snow Leopard install disc is much more likely to boot it.
Hey! The OS i would use is snow leopard. I used tiger and it was a lot slower than leopard. Also Snow Leopard is safer and easier to use!
If that doesnt work,lift with Finger nail Lid on CD Drive and you will see a small Hole. Push in with a Needle till CD drive opens. But dont do that too often!
iMacs have neither a "lid on CD drive" nor a visible manual ejection hole, and haven't for years.
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SOURCE: wont boot on its own, wont boot with install disc,
As the hard disk appears to be showing up when you boot up using the install disc, I would suspect that the system is somewhat corrupted. You could reinstall the system again and if you are happy starting from scratch and wiping the hard drive select this option failing that and there is some data on the imac you could install using the preserve user data. A fresh install should sort out any problems. Hope this helps.
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