The hard drive crashed- not to be replaced until a few days from now:(
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Does not look like a hard disk crash … may be you have one or more bad memory chips.
My uncle looked at it and it appears to have crashed somewhere in the boot section. We tried repairing it, didn’t work. It connects to the hard drive but won’t boot it.
Ouch! Suggest you consider A Mac next time .. even a used one.