IMac decides when it wants to startup

i was looking at buying an imac but the description said that it decides when it wants to start up, they said that it would work for a couple of weeks and then not work for several days they also went on to say that the fans would start as normal but then stop and the startup would not proceed, they had also done a clean re-install of OS X
24" aluminium Imac - 2.4ghz, 2Gig ram, 300Gig HD running OS X

Hello:
Fix what?  You said you were:
" I was looking at buying an iMac"
Apparently you do not have one.  The "description" you reference is not part of Apple documentation.  I have no clue what you are asking...
Barry

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