Questions & Answers for: Apple iMac mac boot past apple screen

OS X 10.2 through 10.3.9, you will see "Safe Boot" on the Mac OS X startup screen. To leave Safe Mode in any version of Mac OS X, restart the computer normally, without holding any keys during startup

...boot up past the Apple logo and spinning boot up lines....fan is running but frozen on apple screen. I would try pressing f2 or f8 when first boots up, then change bios settings from first bootup ...

...screen lights up a dull gray, and then a brighter gray, with no further changes. Tried holding Shift, Shift+S, Apple+Option+P+R, no luck. We also double-checked internal connections. Any more ...

...boot it up and it goes past the "loading mac OS X" screen. and then the screen is blue. and nothing but the mouse shows up Try and boot from original OS disks and run the tools on it to check for ...

past the is screen. I have tried the suggestion listed below including doing a hard shutdown (by holding the power button for ~ 10 seconds) and then attempting a PRAM reset by holding down the Command