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Black Screen at Mac Startup in eMac

eMac which is a educational purpose Mac OSX based computer system is pretty nice computers that have right combination of features that student need for their studies. Unfortunately sometimes the eMac computers have also faced problems. A blank black screen at startup comes and after that you can not log into your system. This behavior renders your system inaccessible. It can be with any version of Mac OS including Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger and 10.3 Panther. It leads to critical data loss situations and need Data Recovery as a solution.

 

This problem generally occurs when you install a new hardware or system is crashed due to some reason. Check the conditions listed below:

  1. You install VGA adapter on your eMac computer to watch videos on your computer and on your TV
  2. Unexpectedly your TV gets turned off without any warning, even if the VGA adapter is still plugged in your computer
  3. You shut down the computer after the TV gets turned off automatically
  4. When you start eMac next time, it gives you normal chime, the hard drive spins up normally but your system stops responding with a black screen. It can occur again and again, every time you reboot the system
  5. Unexpected system shut down due to OS crash or power failure

 

These situations are really critical. You need to find out the root of this problem. It may be:

  • Incompatible hardware or missing device drivers
  • Damaged data structures like File system

 

How to fix Black Screen in Mac?

 

These are some steps that may help you solving the problem:

  • Disconnect all the cables and try PRAM reset or Firmware reset
  • Remove the newly installed hardware and boot the system
  • In case of damaged Data Structures, perform the erase and install installation of Mac OSX operating system

 

However reinstalling the operating system removes all the data from your Mac hard drive and cause the serious data loss. To solve it you need Mac Data Recovery since the Mac Data Recovery is designed to recover the data from the affected hard drive. It perform the robust scanning to the hard drive of eMac so that all the deleted, corrupted, lost and inaccessible files on Mac will be recovered and this will cause the system stable once again. Now after getting the data, you can take the backup of it and perform the fresh Mac OSX installation on eMac so that your system will be faster like earlier. Then using the backup you can again use files on your system.