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Help with imac symptoms
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I have a 24" imac, 2.4, 4gb ram 320hd. Been having some problems and need some help in figuring out what to try next.
Symptoms:
Tasks like unraring, unzipping, and adding stuff to itunes are causing the computer to beachball.
Too many programs open, beachball.
Even at times it will beachball when safari has too many tabs open.
These often lead me to havingt ot leave the computer for 10-15 minutes to return back to normal, or the imac just completely locks up and needs to be hard reset.
What i have tried thus far:
Disk utlity to repair volume came back and said that the hd was too damaged to repair and needed a reinstall.
Upon trying to do an archive install, failed 3 times mid install.
Completely wiped the drive and reinstalled ok.
Where I'm at:
After moving some files back from a time machine version, the machine is still experiencing all the same problems (above).
Is this a drive problem? ram problem? or something else? Is there anything else that I can try on my own to diagnose?
Please help, thanks!
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
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Have you run the hardware diagnostics program? Best guess is an intermittent RAM failure.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Download SMART Utility and run it - I bet it'll tell you the drive is failing. If that's the case, try to backup your stuff (if you haven't already), and get a new drive.
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Either the hard drive or the RAM. If the hard drive checks out with SMART Utility, pull the RAM and see if the problems continue to occur.
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SMART came back with a "failing" readback. I guess that solves that. Really frustrating because HD went out within first year of apple care; so i purchased the extended warranty and of course now i'm out of that warranty.
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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Hard drives die, unfortunately. If you buy them directly, the warranty is often 5 years, but if you got it from Apple, you will need to get a new one. HDs aren't especially expensive, but replacing them is tricky in iMacs. Manuals are available here.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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