Computer problem

[Captain Big Trousers]

Are we at the part where annoying Apple fans like me chime in and say "Get a MAC'??

Same thing happened to my last iMac. Good for ten minutes and then bogged down to the point where I couldn't call a menu up. It was nearly three years old, but I had the extended Apple warranty.

Sent it off to Apple and told them I thought it was the hard drive. They replaced the monitor, which wasn't faulty, with a faulty monitor! Grr! Gave it back to me with a dodgy monitor and the SAME hard drive.

After ten minutes... crashed again. Double Grr!

Phoned Apple - they sent someone to my house to replace the hard drive. That fixed it, but then I said "Now about this faulty monitor you just installed..."

He made a phone call. The next day a courier arrived with a brand new iMac. Bigger screen, bigger hard drive, more memory. Free!

So even the bad Apple stories have a happy ending.

[Toy Talk]

Same thing happened to my last iMac. Good for ten minutes and then bogged down to the point where I couldn't call a menu up. It was nearly three years old, but I had the extended Apple warranty.

Sent it off to Apple and told them I thought it was the hard drive. They replaced the monitor, which wasn't faulty, with a faulty monitor! Grr! Gave it back to me with a dodgy monitor and the SAME hard drive.

After ten minutes... crashed again. Double Grr!

Phoned Apple - they sent someone to my house to replace the hard drive. That fixed it, but then I said "Now about this faulty monitor you just installed..."

He made a phone call. The next day a courier arrived with a brand new iMac. Bigger screen, bigger hard drive, more memory. Free!

So even the bad Apple stories have a happy ending.

I agree that Apple is by no means immune to hardware failures; which I have a feeling may be at the heart of the problem in this thread. However, since 70% of all computer failures are software related it often pays to check the easy stuff first.

Since the event appeared after the storm I am not completely ruling out a bad pagefile.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I had something similar happen to mine. I'm not 100% sure what happened, but the UPDATED virus software seemed to be the problem. Not sure why though.

Don C.

[Figuremod73]

Ok heres a update:

I had someone come over whose a little more knowledgeable come over and look at. They cleaned the cookies and installed an updated version of Mcaffey anti-virus. The virus check came up negative. When the cookies and some of the options were changed it seemed to run better a little while then began to do the same thing again.
Now the memory chip is becoming suspect so memcheck would be a good idea. Im thinking about taking it to a comp specialist but im a little afraid of what they would charge,lol.
If I got a apple it would be a ipad. They are awesome and would be great for reading books and comics on. Its just their cost. Apple is quality thats for sure i use to use them in school.

[Toy Talk]

Run the memory test first, but you are on the right track. Since you know there was no problem prior to the storm then you have your cause. Now you are left looking for the effect. You have effectively ruled out the normal software problems.

Run the memtest, then open the case and look at the fans.

The behavior you are experiencing is either bad memory or a bad fan; you have tested everything else already.

If you notice a case fan or CPU fan (if you have one) is not running then you have your problem. A CPU heats up quickly, within 5-10 minutes, after starting the system. The hotter the CPU gets the slower your system will get until eventually your screen freezes.

[johnmiic]

I would like to add-make sure you have backed up everything! I can't tell you how much I spent over the years getting data recalled/retrieved.

[Figuremod73]

Oh yea, i have that covered as well. USB hard drive

You know, we take for granted how sophisticated and useful these machines are sometimes. Its terrible when something goes wrong with them!

Im not gonna play with it anymore the next few days. Ill get someone to look at it again soon.