Raindog Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 I know things are not suppose to last forever, but the storm last night turn off the power in the house and killed my iMac. It won't turn on. I have tried all the internet tricks. Meh and Phooey. First, my old car and now this.............???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretre Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Dis-like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudra34 Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Balls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Bugger :(Ok Ordites, let's pool together and get this man digital again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PourSpelur Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Anything that can be done for this? Mine's out too. Tried everything but bringing it to a shop. Most everything says that once they're dead, they're dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Yeah, the best you can usually hope for at that point is that someone can pull the hard drive and copy it over to a new machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iraf Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 I know things are not suppose to last forever, but the storm last night turn off the power in the house and killed my iMac. It won't turn on. I have tried all the internet tricks. Meh and Phooey. First, my old car and now this............. Do you keep your iMac plugged into a surge protector. If so, most surge protectors have some kind of warranty if they don't protect the devices. If not, I recommend using a surge protector on all expensive and important electrical devices in the future. Make sure you get something with around 3000 joules of protection. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don't Panic Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Do you keep your iMac plugged into a surge protector. If so, most surge protectors have some kind of warranty if they don't protect the devices. If not, I recommend using a surge protector on all expensive and important electrical devices in the future. Make sure you get something with around 3000 joules of protection. yea originally i bought my TV and didnt get insurance for it but bought a nice surge protector with warranty as it was cheaper and also surge is most likely reason for electronics to kick it before their time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisruptiveConduct Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 You guys need to try a SMC reset if you havent already. Unplug from power completely. Hold power button for 5-10 sec Plug back in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raindog Posted December 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 You guys need to try a SMC reset if you havent already. Unplug from power completely. Hold power button for 5-10 sec Plug back in I followed those instructions several times and had no luck. I will try again tonight when I get home because it never hurts to try again. The computer is old and was on a surge protector, but I kept no warranty info on it, if it had one in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torg Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Since my youngster days - I have always unplugged my computers when there were storms or questionable power issues (windstorms…etc). Just a habit I guess. At work we have good battery back up UPS boxes on each workstation - allowing for things to be saved and shut down when the lights go out. -sorry about your mac! -d 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombking Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 May not even be the storm that did it. Sometimes when electronics are ready to fail, especially on computers that are on almost all the time it will chug along nicely thorough power cycles even, but shut it off and give it time to actually cool down then poof, b0rk3d vital component that was happy and reporting fine previously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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