iMac logo won’t show and start

[Tyyper]

Hello, I am using iMac early 2008 and I have been facing this issue a lot recently. My computer won’t start and after it does it won’t take me to password page however, it would start and function normally after a couple of restarts. But today it isn’t working, this issue has been happening for almost 2 months week after week. What can be the solution to this? Any common problems that can cause this?? I have attached a photo of it

 

[Kevin Lasko]

The Apple Help Page is here ... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210901

Not sure if this is helpful or not. Perhaps an issue with your hard drive or drive controller
?

 

[MBAir2010]

Hello, I am using iMac early 2008 and I have been facing this issue a lot recently. My computer won’t start and after it does it won’t take me to password page however, it would start and function normally after a couple of restarts. But today it isn’t working, this issue has been happening for almost 2 months week after week. What can be the solution to this? Any common problems that can cause this?? I have attached a photo of it

that is the hard drive failure, just replace the hard drive.
reinstall snow leopard OSX or Time Machine from a back up we made earlier
by pressing the "option key" after the lovely chime and before the logo appears
and will be all set to go!

aint these Macs great computers to have?

 

[rpmurray]

If the drive in the iMac is the original one that came with the computer when new, then it's most likely failed.

 

[Fishrrman]

If the drive has failed, it's not worth fixing on a now-15-year-old Mac.

You COULD buy an external USB drive, and boot and run from that, but a 2008 iMac only has USB2, so it's not going to be fast at all.

You got 14+ years of use from the old one.
Probably time to start shopping for a replacement.
Either new, Apple-refurbished, or even used.