IMac 24" 3.06Ghz crashes intermittently, causes endless restarts

Hi All,
I have a 24-inch, 3.06 Ghz Intel iMac that has been crashing intermittently for months now. The crashes seem to happen at mostly random times, but occur more frequently during processor-intensive tasks. Specifically, the crashes almost always happen when I'm playing a game (World of Warcraft), doing a system update thatbrequires a restart or doing more than one thing at a time in iTunes (syncing my iPad, listening to music and downloading multiple podcasts).
When the crashes happen, everything freezes up and I get the spinning beach ball. No applications are responsive and I'm unable to bring up the Force Quit window. At this point, I have no choice but to do a hard shutdown (by holding the power button). For the next several minutes after the shutdown, starting up the computer causes a series of endless restarts on a blank black screen. The only way to get the computer to start up normally again is to leave it off for a few minutes. Then it starts up without a problem.
I'm stumped. Thank you all for any help you can provide.
- Mike

The CPU is fine. The HDD is pretty warm - 120F would be more comfortable (mine is 123F with nothing much going on), but the fan is trying to keep it down so the system is doing what it should.
If your HD stays that hot constantly, rather than only when being very active (reindexing Spotlight, running a backup, or other continuous activity) then I'd start to worry some. Generally HDs don't like going over 130F.

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Imac 9,1 F2218FA9, crash, yosemite, not in system save mode

I have a IMac 2009 9,1, F2218FA9, that is always crashing every time i start the mac.
nothing is happen in save start mode.
AHT is not running due to new installation and lack of the orginal CD rom.
any suggestions?
kind regrads
enno

Problem description:
imac 9,1 2009 crash, but not in save mode, yosemite
EtreCheck version: 2.1.6 (109)
Report generated 22. Januar 2015 18:16:22 MEZ
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (24-inch, Early 2009) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac9,1
1 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Time since boot: 0:7:10
Disk Information: ℹ️
WDC WD6400AAKS-40H2B0 disk0 : (640,14 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Yosemite (disk0s2) / : 639.28 GB (627.13 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS08
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.nvidia.CUDA (1.1.0) [Support]
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.ucupdate.plist [Details]
[failed] com.apple.watchdogd.plist [Details]
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
None
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
CUDA Preferences [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      2% WindowServer
      0% Finder
      0% fontd
      0% AppleSpell
      0% notifyd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
116 MB Safari
103 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
98 MB WindowServer
94 MB Finder
73 MB Spotlight
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
98 MB Free RAM
2.05 GB Active RAM
1.76 GB Inactive RAM
383 MB Wired RAM
1.34 GB Page-ins
49 KB Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Jan 22, 2015, 06:13:50 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/loginwindow_2015-01-22-181350_[redacted].crash
Jan 22, 2015, 06:09:50 PM Self test - passed

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