24" 2.4ghz imac freezes constantly after 10.5.8 update

Hi,
I have a 24" al imac that run perfectly for years until I installed the 10.5.8 update. Now my screen dims, displays the power button graphic and says "press the power button to restart..." which I do and then send the report to apple... It's locking up every few minutes. Since the machine was no longer useable, I did a clean install (erasing the whole disk) and installed 10.5.5. And it continued to lock up. Did the 10.5.7 update via firewire target mode, still locking up. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks, Mark

If the AHT (Apple Hardware Test) came back with no errors, that doesn't 100% rule out hardware. Especially if it's intermittent.
Definitely try Safe Boot. If you successfully get booted into safe boot you can try things like clearing your login items which you can do my accessing System Preferences and clicking on Accounts. Once in accounts select Login Items on the right hand side and empty the list by highlighting the items and then clicking on the Minus button at the bottom of the list. Once clear, restart your computer and see if the issue persists.
If it does, your next best bet is to boot to the install disk. Your computer would have come with two disks. One will say MAC OS X Install DVD and the other will say Applications or Bundled Software. You want to boot to the MAC OS X Install DVD. Once you select english as the main language wait a few seconds for the menu bar to appear along the top of the screen. Select Utilities and then Disk Utility. Disk Utility will now open and once it gathers your disk information select the first indented volume on the left side. Then click the first aid button on the right hand side of the window and then click on Repair Disk at the bottom of the window. Be sure to select Repair Disk and not Repair Disk Permissions although you won't damage anything if you select that option, you'll just waste 5 to 7 minutes. If it is an operating system issue, which is doubtful, it will attempt to repair the disk. If successful it will tell you. If no repairs to the volume are necessary it will tell you that the volume appears to be normal. If repairs fail, then you need to reinstall the operating system.
Most of the time a Kernel Panic indicates a hardware failure so keep that in mind. If all else fails, book yourself a Genius Bar appointment at an Apple Store, which is free, and they will diagnose the problem. Considering the severity of the issue, they will probably keep it for a day or two.
Hope things work out for you.

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24" 2.4ghz al imac freezes constantly after 10.5.8 update

Hi,
I have a 24" al imac that run perfectly for years until I installed the 10.5.8 update. Now my screen dims, displays the power button graphic and says "press the power button to restart..." which I do and then send the report to apple... It's locking up every few minutes. Since the machine was no longer useable, I did a clean install (erasing the whole disk) and installed 10.5.5. And it continued to lock up. Did the 10.5.7 update via firewire target mode, still locking up. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks, Mark

If the AHT (Apple Hardware Test) came back with no errors, that doesn't 100% rule out hardware. Especially if it's intermittent.
Definitely try Safe Boot. If you successfully get booted into safe boot you can try things like clearing your login items which you can do my accessing System Preferences and clicking on Accounts. Once in accounts select Login Items on the right hand side and empty the list by highlighting the items and then clicking on the Minus button at the bottom of the list. Once clear, restart your computer and see if the issue persists.
If it does, your next best bet is to boot to the install disk. Your computer would have come with two disks. One will say MAC OS X Install DVD and the other will say Applications or Bundled Software. You want to boot to the MAC OS X Install DVD. Once you select english as the main language wait a few seconds for the menu bar to appear along the top of the screen. Select Utilities and then Disk Utility. Disk Utility will now open and once it gathers your disk information select the first indented volume on the left side. Then click the first aid button on the right hand side of the window and then click on Repair Disk at the bottom of the window. Be sure to select Repair Disk and not Repair Disk Permissions although you won't damage anything if you select that option, you'll just waste 5 to 7 minutes. If it is an operating system issue, which is doubtful, it will attempt to repair the disk. If successful it will tell you. If no repairs to the volume are necessary it will tell you that the volume appears to be normal. If repairs fail, then you need to reinstall the operating system.
Most of the time a Kernel Panic indicates a hardware failure so keep that in mind. If all else fails, book yourself a Genius Bar appointment at an Apple Store, which is free, and they will diagnose the problem. Considering the severity of the issue, they will probably keep it for a day or two.
Hope things work out for you.

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Please read this whole message carefully, especially the warnings, before doing anything.
1. I can only guess which of the modifications you've made to your system is causing the problem. The changes suggested here should be considered provisional; they may not help, or they may remove functionality that you find useful. If a third-party system modification that you want to keep is at fault, refer to its developer for support.
2. WARNING: Back up all data now if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to its present state, even if it becomes unbootable. If you’re not sure you can do that, STOP — DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING.
If you don't like the results of the procedure suggested below, restore from your backup.
I will not be responsible for the consequences, and I will not be able to help, if you ignore this warning.
3. You should either remove or update the following system modification(s), if an update is available from the developer:
[Not applicable]
and definitely remove at least the following:
† FreeMemory
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Brand new iMac freezes constantly! Updates aren't helping!

Hello everyone,
This past Sunday I bought a brand new iMac intel Core 2 Duo with a 250 GB HDD and 1 GB of RAM. At home I set it up with my SAMSUNG 1080p 22" monitor, Apple bluetooth Keyboard and mightymouse, and a Western Digital 350 GB HDD hooked up via USB. I was excited to finally jump on the intel-based Mac bandwagon, as well as experience dual monitors for the first time.
That was Sunday. Tuesday evening I was watching "Rome" on itunes on my Samsung monitor while surfing the web with Omniweb on the iMac monitor. All of sudden, everything locked up. I was able to move my cursor, but nothing responeded to my clicking. I hard booted the system and loaded everything I had going again, and sure enough, it locked up a few moments later. I ran system update, updated everything, then restarted. Time went by and although not immediatly, later that night it froze up on me again.
Fast forward to last nite, and the freezing reached and all time high. 5 times. Each time was when I had a browser open in my iMac window and I had Quicktime playing in my Samsung monitor. I was watching a sports program, with the player fit to the screen.
I have read many posts about intel iMacs freezing late last year, but there was a firmware update that evidently fixed that. I have this update installed, and I have had no luck. I have even contacted Apple Care via phone where I got instructed to unplug everything, plug it back in, start in safe mode, and delete cache. That didn't help me out at all. Am I right insuspecting I have a faulty Video card? I just ordered 4GB of RAM, could this be a RAM issue?

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As I said in my original post, memory is always a suspect in a freezing or kernel panicking computer. And it does tend to top my list. But from what you describe I'm not quite willing to say, "Why don't you just wait until the RAM upgrade arrives?"

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Glad to see you took my suggestion & posted here. Here are my thoughts.
Do you have any logs in the Console like this below ?
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Next Go to HD->Library->Receipts and trash all iTunes .pkg files EXCEPT for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
•So, just go to the Receipts folder, open it, go to list mode, find the iTune.pkg files, and put into your trash (but don't empty until you've made sure all this works for you) any iTunes.pkg files EXCEPT the ones mentioned above. You do need the iTunes.pkg files mentioned above, but you do not need the ones in your trash.
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Then do a restart & run permissions repair.
The other issue you do not mention is Norton did you uninstall it ?
Which Norton do you use, you did not repy to that.http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2730248&#2730248
Look at macjack's post for the Unistaller.
Backup your files if you have not done so already.If the worse happens at least it will not be a disaster. Any q's please ask.
Eme;~[)
edited by: Eme

My iMac freezes up after starting, works fine in safe mode. What to do?

Hey,
I've got an iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 24" with Mac OS X 10.5.8 and a few days ago it froze while playing a game and watching an online video at the same time. When I turned it on the next morning all seemed fine but after half an hour it froze up again while doing the same thing. After this it froze up everytime within minutes of starting up. When it freezes it gives me a light purple, dark or grey screen. No error messages or anything.
When I start it using safe mode it works just fine.
I've tried all the usual stuff: resetting RAM, testing hardware and even running it on both my 2 GB RAMS seperately. None of this solved the problem or gave me any clue what to look for.
I've also tried reinstalling Mac OS X but after a while of showing me the apple and the loading circle it just gives me an empty grey screen.
Has anyone had similar problems, or advice what to do next?
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Haven't Updated in a while, but at some point I got the thought that it was some sort of monitor problem, so I tested my comp with an extra monitor connected. As it turns out, there are no problems whatsoever when I connect one. It doesn't freeze up! The monitor doesn't even have to be turned on!
Does anyone have enough knowledge of the technology/system to conclude what the problem with my Imac is?
Little piece of extra info: The color the screen turns when it freezes seems to be the color in the exact middle of the screen. (Example: Light purple from the default mac background)
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Message was edited by: Bobbert87

IMac Freezing constantly

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Symtom: The freeze happens at random which means it will froze when in finder, in applications, or do nothing. Noticed there are line glitches too, black out screen. Mouse would move, but have to force shut down with the power button. The freeze can happens as fast as within a minute after restart, sometimes can run for 45 minutes...etc.
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Read about resetting SMC or PRAM, doubt it's those.
- Did clean install, reformat.
I have two other iMacs that are the same model running on 10.5.8, it's slow but at least don't freeze. I think I am going to leave those two along.
There doesn't seem to be a definite fix, not even Apple. Any ideas?

Open Activity Monitor, Show:>All Processes, sort on CPU%, see if anything using too much CPU% when this happens, click on Memory tab, do you have many Pageouts?
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
iStat Menus...
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
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HI,
*"repair disk does not fix any of the above problem"*
If Disk Utility reported errors, did you repair them?
Insert Installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
*(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)*
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
While you have the Disk Utility window open, look at the bottom of the window. Where you see Capacity and Available. *Make sure there is always 10% to 15% free disk space*
Might be a good idea to run the Apple Hardware Test just in case, go here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2684
Try downloading and installing the 10.6.2 combo update here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959
Then repair disk permissions.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Deleting the com.apple.systemiuserver.plist file should fix the Status Menu Bar issue as "donv (The Ghost)" suggests.
One last thing... please click My Settings on the right side of this window and update your forum profile. Thanks!
Carolyn

Installed ok but now my iMac freezes right after startup

Leopard installed (updated from 10.4) ok, I had to restart once during it but it went ok. Once it was installed it froze once, so I rebooted and it seemed to be fine. I ran the software updates and since then when I start it up it gives me the black tinted screen that says I need to restart so hold down my power button.
I looked in the support section and tried to do the first solution listed under 'blue screen' (I assume that's the same as tinted black overlay screen) which was to boot it as a HD onto my laptop and erase a certain file but I didn't have that file. From this posting:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
To make matters worse it seems as though my external HD has broken. I'm scared to try option B in the thread above without backing up my files. Has this happen to anyone else out there? I'm a graphic designer and I'm going crazy without my main workstation. I feel like a race car driver without a car.
Any help, any, would be greatly appreciated.
Hopeless in Tampa,
Kurt Cruse

Hi
The screen that tells you to restart in multiple languages, is that what you're referring to? That suggests a kernel panic, see if anything at http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html is helpful.
Steve

IMAC freezes @ startup after osx update?

Just getting the grey screen now. Have tried the safe mode startup as well with no success.
Suggestions?

Try booting to the Recovery HD.
Hold option and turn it on, and select "Recovery HD" by moving the arrow on the screen with the arrow keys on your keyboard and then hit return.
OR
Hold CMD+R then turn the computer on. Hold untill you see a "select your language" screen.

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