White Screen Booting and Hardware Error 4MOT/4/40000003: HDD-1243
Hello,
Out of nowhere my mac shut down and when i tried to boot again, i got the infamous white screen after seeing the Apple Logo and loading bar.
I tried the usual stuff Resetting NVRAM PRAM SMC. No effect.
I tried to boot Verbose mode, at one point saw the screen glitch (colors mixed horizontally) and it tried to restart again (makes me think it is GPU problem)
However, when i did Apple hardware Test it gave me following error
Hardware Error 4MOT/4/40000003: HDD-1243
So i know that it is a Fan related error. Some people argued that if it was HDD-1244 error it was temperature sensor of the HDD.
So my questions are Could you please let me know which error this is for? If it was some fan related issue would it prevent mac from booting ?
What are the chances that it is because of GPU but for some reason Apple hardware test gives this error? GPU was replaced under warranty sometime around 2015-16 by Apple under replacement program.
Also I removed the optical drive and put SSD instead a while ago. I am booting from the SSD not the default HDD that came with the imac.