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could this freeze be related to HW?
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2.1GHz intel, Core2 Duo, last of the white iMacs. Just got this from eBay.
Seems great...until after sleep, when it might run a few minutes and then inevitably freezes, necessitating holding the power button to shut down. sometimes the freeze starts in one app but then spreads to all. Force Quit (Option-Command-Escape) does nothing.
Googled a lot; seems no confirmed broad fix, which is why I wonder if it's hardware related.
I was intending to change from Snow Leopard to Lion and install a bigger HDD. BUT before I do that, is there any non-tiny chance this is HW related? Because if it's hardware, forget it, I'll just return the machine.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I would suspect the hard drive personally. When the beach ball spreads from one app to the rest, my assumption is a disk access hang.
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Does the system log tell you anything?
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Run disk repair, try reinstalling the OS. It worked on my old 12" Powerbook and I also think it was the hard drive leading to frequent kernel panics if I tried to reboot.
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