Freezing, glitches and weird graphics problems

My white iMac starting having weird praphics issues about year and a half ago. Nothing that was too much to deal with. Simply using expose always cleared it up and if it came back I would do the same. It seems to be getting worse. And then yesterday my iMac started getting super slow and pausing for no reason and then I got the black transparent window shade come from the top of my screen to the bottom and then a message telling me I needed to restart my computer.
After that seemed to work but I still had graphics problems screen flickering and things like this. Then freezes started happening. I reset my pram and novram with no luck. That didn't seem to help. I have 4g of memory so I know it's not that. What hardware could be causing this? Thanks
Btw using the latest version of snow leopard

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Hi Brenden
Thanks for your suggestions.
I have been trying to work out, by process of elimination, what the issue could be and it seemed to me that every time I could think of, I had Back To My Mac running.
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Having freezing problems with the below [A New assembled Computer tower to my requirements by a recognised computer company [350 miles away??];
Appears to be related to the compatibility of Mother Board and Graphics card installed =
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Gigabyte 915P GA-81915PC Duo Mother board
MSI NVIDIA GEFORCE NX6600-TD 256MB PCIE TVO, DVI Graphics Card
INTEL Pentium 4 530J/ 3.0Ghz 800 FSB 0.09u LAG775/ MB/ Execute Disable [XD]
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Works Suite 2005
Power DVD
Real Player
AVG Free Antivirus
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DSL Broadband
LG 700S Monitor
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Also yesterday did a clean reinstall of the Windows XP Home ETC and still had the same problem!
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[1]
At the moment I have been able to overcome the freezing by experimenting with customisation of the programming of the NVIDIA 71.89 [this driver is the best I found which nearly overcomes the Freezing problem.
[2]
At the moment I have the "Troubleshoot" Decelerated back to the ".....DirectX....."
[3]
The freezing/computer lockup "STILL" comes up while Surfing the Internet [about 2 to 4 times EACH day? [Yes today!]
[4]
Was having a computer freeze/lockup.with
[The below has taken me 6 weeks to achieve the below!]
Viewing a DVD Video with a about half way through . Now with my latest customisation I can now view a complete Video
The PhotoImpact when straightening up a photo and going to crop same [ This seems to fix this = Have altered in = "System Properties " = "Settings" = "Programs" to "Background Services" =]
[5]
Two days ago tried a new "Radeon VC- HIS-70000-B18-PCI" graphic Card and received and had the same problems? After this it seems my problem is not related to the Graphics Card?
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[6e] Noticed in the "Release 70 Notes for Version 71.89" =page 20 =
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There are no known issues between ur mobo and ur gfx card. Issues like these are moere chipset related then brand related.
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[ 34.742] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.2.0
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[ 35.306]
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[ 35.306] no screens found
[ 35.306]
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
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[ 35.306] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 35.306]
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Occasionally, for no apparent reason, the computer will get into a cycle where the mouse freezes for about 20 seconds, then control comes back for about 10 seconds, then the mouse freezes for 20, repeatedly until the computer crashes.
This usually is accompanied with graphics glitches and artifacts. The latest time I managed to get a screenshot (the computer was resuming from sleep when it happened). This is the worst glitching I have seen so far: http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errorcx1.jpg (I blacked out the contact list)
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5/28/08 8:46:21 AM kernel vmnet: VNetUserIf_Create: created userIf at 0x4c76a00.
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5/28/08 8:46:21 AM kernel vmnet: Hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
5/28/08 8:46:21 AM mDNSResponder[46] getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet8(8) Flags 8863 Family 2 192.168.242.1 has different family: 0
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5/28/08 8:46:21 AM mDNSResponder[46] getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet1(9) Flags 8863 Family 2 192.168.60.1 has different family: 0
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sadly, I have to report I got same problems. It definitely started back with 10.5.2 and I'm quite confident it was related to Graphic Update or VmWare Fusion network traffic. By upgrading to 10.5.3 I haven't seen any more of graphic glitches and artifacts, but problems is still there, and very hard to simulate.
So far I've seen it only on my MBP (connected using Airport), and not when connected to Ethernet. It seems to be somehow connected to network problems and how VmWare Fusion is handling it. Today, when it crashed, I capture following in my system.log
Jun 21 18:38:55 radim com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd-wake[4938]): Exited with exit code: 1
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Jun 21 18:39:06 radim configd[14]: rtmsg: error writing to routing socket
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Jun 21 18:39:14 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: VMNetConnect: returning port 0xbe08800
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Jun 21 18:39:14 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: Hub 0
Jun 21 18:39:14 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: Port 0
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Jun 21 18:39:14 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en1: wireless interface detected.
Jun 21 18:39:14 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en1: up
Jun 21 18:39:14 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en1: attached
Jun 21 18:39:14 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: VNetUserIfFree: freeing userIf at 0xbe08800.
Jun 21 18:40:16 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: VMNetDisconnect called for port 0xbabfd00
Jun 21 18:40:16 radim kernel[0]: vmnet: VNetUserIfFree: freeing userIf at 0xbabfd00.
Jun 21 18:40:16 radim kernel[0]: vmmon: Cleaned up 2452 virtual main memory pages from VM 0x806c004.
Jun 21 18:40:16 radim kernel[0]: vmmon: Cleaned up 2950 monitor anonymous pages from VM 0x806c004.
Jun 21 18:40:16 radim kernel[0]: vmmon: Cleaned up 1573 user anonymous pages from VM 0x806c004.
shortly after it the hangs started to occur and after 30 seconds machine stop responding. In mean time I was trying to ping my MBP from other machine and ping was gradually increasing from 1ms - 150ms and down again, until it stop receiving answers.
I'll post list to this thread to VmWare forums.

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Follow the onscreen instructions until the Menu Bar appears with the Utilities menu in it, choose Utilities > Disk Utility, click First Aid, and then click the Verify button. If DU reports errors, click Repair. When it's finished, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Disk. In the Startup Disk window select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart.
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Under some circumstances, you may need to reinstall Mac OS X. You can reinstall Mac OS X while keeping your files and user settings intact.
NOTE: To reinstall Mac OS X from another computer on your network, see this topic:
Using Remote Install Mac OS X
To reinstall Mac OS X:
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Click Options.
If you want to save your existing files, users, and network settings, select “Archive and Install,” and then select “Preserve Users and Network Settings.”
If you want to erase everything on your computer and reinstall Mac OS X, select “Erase and Install.” You can’t recover erased data.
Click Continue.
Click Customize to select which parts of Mac OS X you’d like to install, or click Install to perform a basic installation (recommended).
NOTE: If you selected “Erase and Install” in step 3, you may need to use the Applications Install DVD that came with your computer to reinstall your iLife applications (GarageBand, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and iWeb). If you are prompted to use the Applications Install DVD, insert the Applications Install DVD, double-click the Install Bundled Software icon, and then follow the onscreen instructions.
If you purchased a standalone version of Mac OS X, these installation instructions are in a PDF file located on the Mac OS X Install DVD.
If you need to reinstall the version of Mac OS X that was on your computer when you purchased it, or if you need to restore all the software on your computer, including Apple software, third-party applications, and other printer drivers, review the instructions in the manual that came with your computer.
If you need to reinstall Mac OS X and you’ve been using Time Machine for backup, you can easily restore your applications, files, and user settings from your Time Machine backup disk after you’ve reinstalled Mac OS X.
Happy Holidays!!!
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