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September 26th, 2006, 07:41 AM
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| Random crashes on a two-day-old iMac 20" Hey all, I ordered the new 20" iMac last week with an upgrade to 2GB of Ram and the 256MB video card. The iMac was delivered to my house on Friday. The data transfer from my 12" Powerbook to my iMac went smooth, but about 15 minutes or so into using my iMac the screen went a light shade of blue. I had to do a hard reboot to get it back up and all was well for a few hours. I used BootCamp to create a partition and installed Windows. That installation went fine, but one game would fail on the installation at the same spot every time. I'm blaming that on a bad disc, but I still need to check that out. Since Friday my iMac has crashed over 10 times. I ran a memory test to test the ram for a bad chip, but the test came back good. I booted to my install disc and ran Disk Utility to check the hard drive for bad sectors, but that also came back successful. I'm left thinking that I might have a bad install of OS X on my system and finder is crashing. I did do a data transfer, which made me want to blame the crashes on a rogue app that was crashing my mac, but it crashed shortly after startup with only safari and mail open. Does anyone have any clue as to what could be causing my iMac to "Blue Screen" on me....I though I would never say that   |
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#2
September 26th, 2006, 10:42 AM
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| get on the phone to apple support, while it's free. you'll probably end up with a new imac, at this stage.
__________________ Dual 1.8GHz G5 2GB, 1TB, Radeon 9600XT 128MB, 10.5 20" Apple Cinema Display + Dell 2005FPW 20" dual-head iBook G3 700MHz 640MB, 40GB, Rage128 16MB, 10.4, dying battery |
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#3
September 26th, 2006, 11:33 AM
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| Remember that Boot Camp is still in beta and won't be final until 10.5 (Leopard) is released, so anything that happens might be blamed on that by Apple. I would start fresh with a clean install and see if the fresh OS X installation starts to exhibit any problems after a while. Be sure to backup what you can first.
__________________ • Apple iMac G5 17" (2 GHz G5) - Mac OS X 10.4.11 • Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 (33 MHz MC68040) - Mac OS 8.1 • Apple PowerBook Duo 230 (33 MHz MC68030) - System 7.1 • "JHVH-1" (2 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+) - Slackware 12.1 • "Kidbuntu" (2.8 GHz Celeron D 335) - Ubuntu 8.04 |
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September 26th, 2006, 11:35 AM
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| I would suspect hardware. When something is new like that and it's failing left and right, I would just take it in to an Apple Store and let them sort it out. |
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September 26th, 2006, 11:36 AM
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__________________ • Apple iMac G5 17" (2 GHz G5) - Mac OS X 10.4.11 • Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 (33 MHz MC68040) - Mac OS 8.1 • Apple PowerBook Duo 230 (33 MHz MC68030) - System 7.1 • "JHVH-1" (2 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+) - Slackware 12.1 • "Kidbuntu" (2.8 GHz Celeron D 335) - Ubuntu 8.04 |
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