Blinking World Icon (on start)

picked my iMac 27" up from local Apple store after having Genius' run diagnostics (due to a continuously running fan). Now when i start the computer a grey screen shows (2min), then a blinking icon of the World (3min), only to load the desktop after 5 minutes. What is happening?

Restart the machine holding down the Option key. When the boot manager comes up, select your internal Hard drive. It should boot as normal. After that on subsequent reboots, it should find the drive and boot up quickly.
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Captfred

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Hi, Michael, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
I think what's happened is that your Startup Disk preference has gotten corrupted somehow, and you just need to redesignate the desired OS for startup. Start up from your Tiger installer DVD and open System Preferences>Startup Disk. Select the copy of Tiger on your internal hard drive as your startup OS, and then close System Prefs.
Now open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select the hard drive (the line with the drive manufacturer's name and model number in it) and click the First Aid tab. Click the Repair Disk button. If any problems are reported to have been repaired, run the Repair Disk routine repeatedly until a "clean" run is achieved (no problems found or fixed).
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Flashing World Icon at Start Up

is this doomsday? i have a feeling it is.
i was having network/internet problems (i.e., not connecting to net) with my imac. after trouble shooting external hardware and cables, i decided to restart the network. i've never done that before, so i figured maybe that would be the magic key.
now, however, all i get is an icon of the world in the middle of a gray screen, with no start up or noise. how bad is it? do i just need to boot from disk? did i just lose everything?

Kick Ninja wrote:
how do i get it back to normal mode,
Restart and hold down the "option" key. Eventually, you'll see the icon for various system folders on any startup disks you might have attached. Choose your hard drive and then hit the "continue" arrow. Last time I used it, it was the arrow that pointed to the right. Once you're booted to the HD, open up your System Preferences and choose "Startup Disk", and set it to boot from your hard drive.
Also, you can use the OS X installer DVD that came with your laptop: hold down the "c" key. When it boots to the installer, one of the menu items is "Startup Disk". Choose it, and choose the correct hard drive for startup.
and how can i trouble shoot my initial network problem?
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I wanted to use Disk Warrior today on my internal hdd so I switched my start-up disk to my external hdd and tried to restart. I only get a blinking world icon on the screen. I tried to boot from the Disk Warrior cd as well as the OS 9 cd but no luck. I've used Disk Warrior before from the ext. hdd with no problem. Any thoughts?
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You're right. The world icon indicates that the imac was looking for a network drive.
Well, the situation is a non-issue for the moment. I wanted to use Disk Warrior to rebuild the internal hdd as a maintenance procedure, not out of necessity. So my main hdd is basically ok.
What I found was that if I just left the imac 'on' then after about 5-6 minutes the flashing world icon would disappear and a folder would appear with an alternating blinking question mark/faces icon. Then, after about another 5 minutes, the computer would go into boot-up mode using the internal hdd. I've done it twice and the computer has booted successfully both times.
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Find your original install disk, insert it and re-boot holding the "C" key during startup. It will take longer but should boot. Then you need to select Disk Utilityfrom the Menu Bar. Do a Repair Disk on your hard drive. When it finishes re-boot normally.

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my computer won't start up, I have a gray screen with a blinking world on it.

Hi,
since the Optio-key obviously doesn't brought up the possibility to boot from your harddisk, there seems to be more 'defect'.
To verify if the OSX system on yozr harddisk is still intact or can be repaired, you need the OSX DVD 1 to boot from it (using the 'C'-key) and either repair the harddisk if needed and/or repeat the procedure with the Startup Volume.
Any chance to borrow a compatible (for Intel MacBooks) OSX DVD 1 from someone ?
Beware, it has to be a disk that came with an Intel MacBook, no retail version or from another Mac-line (iMac, Macbook Pro, etc.) because they are not compatible.
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Hi Rofl-Katofl,
If you are having an issue with your MacBook Pro booting to a flashing question mark, I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
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App World icon has disappear so I can not update any App. I have no idea what happened.
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Give this a try:
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I have a white screen and a blinking world .HELP!

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The blinking folder means just that, it can't find an OS to boot to. Tray zapping the PRAM and it wouldn't hurt to run Rember and if the RAM checks out, she might want to add some, 512 is really a minimum, and Leopard should really have at least 1GB.

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When I am dictating on my ipad, I can switch back and forth between languages by clicking the world icon. On the MAC it seems as though I have to go to system preferences and switch language there. That is a little cumbersome, Is there a way of switching on the MAC?
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why is a world icon appearing when i turn my mac book on instead of the apple icon, is this some kind of calling or what i need to know noww

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