[iranfromthezoo]

Hey guys, I bought my iMac in February and it worked great. I went to the fire academy for 7 sevens and it never got used and now since I am back on it every program freezes, espically when switching from applications to applications. So far this morning I`ve had Illustrator crash 4 times, iTunes, Safari, iChat, Photoshop and GoLive all freeze up on me to where I had to do a Force Quit.

I'm running the 20 inch iMac with 2 gigs of Ram and a 500 gig HD that isn't near being halfway full. I've run disk utility and it doesn't find anything. Does anyone have any ideas of what to do?

[ibook_steve]

Repair permissions. Archive & install the OS again to preserve your settings.

Steve

[iranfromthezoo]

steve, thanks, I've repaired permissions and it didn't find anything but I will do the archive and install.

[analogika]

Use the Mac OS X Install Disc 1 to run the Apple Hardware Test.

Make sure to run the extended test - this will test several hours.

The symptom usually indicates defective RAM, which the AHT can often diagnose correctly - but doesn't necessarily always catch.

Note that re-installing your system while running off defective RAM *WILL* result in a corrupted system, so if it turns out that your RAM (or possibly hard drive) is defective, you MUST re-install the system running off known intact hardware.

[murphy245]

strange sounds like your ram is faulty.

[iranfromthezoo]

yeah i did reinstall and I mean this is just killing me speedwise now. Would the ram have anything to do with the computer being completely inactive for seven weeks and now getting put through it's normal use again?

[madduke]

Have you tried reseating the ram?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by iranfromthezoo 

Would the ram have anything to do with the computer being completely inactive for seven weeks and now getting put through it's normal use again?

That should have no influence at all. Run AHT to find out if it's actually your RAM.

[Big Mac]

It could be the RAM, but it may also be a bad hard drive.