IMac 24" behaving really weard!
This is odd.
We've had this iMac for about 4 years.
It just started flickering the display whenever we start it up (it no longer boots completely).
I can never boot into the OS.
I stuck in the original install disk, press and hold the C key to boot into the DVD.
It accesses the DVD drive for awhile but then the screen goes blank. After a few tries it then succeeds in booting into the DVD.
I completely erased the HD and then re-installed the OS (to Snow Leopard).
After the install, it seemed to work for a few hours and then began exhibiting the same weard behavior of flickering display again.
I wonder if the HD is begining to die.
Any ideas?
Thanks
-Mike
I would STRONGLY recommend running Apple Hardware Test in Extended Mode, this test will take 30-60 minutes. If no errors show up then run the test another 2-3x to ensure there are no errors. If you get any error codes then take the machine to an Apple Store or AASP along with the codes. If you cannot get AHT to run then just the machine in for a repair estimate.
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My 24" iMac is behaving really strange. Very unresponsive.
It takes forever to come up and then is very, very slow to respond to any command on screen. It's making an odd clicking noise as well. I ran Disk Warrior and it said it couldn't fix it. Ideas? Reinstall OS?
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Thanks.
Hardware Information:
iMac (24-inch, Early 2009)
iMac - model: iMac9,1
1 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 1 day 20:5:18
Disk Information:
WDC WD6400AAKS-40H2B0 disk0 : (640.14 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 639.28 GB (230.87 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS08
USB Information:
Apple Inc. iPhone
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Logitech USB Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Configuration files:
/etc/hosts - Count: 14
Kernel Extensions:
com.f-secure.kext.fsauth (1.0.0d1)
Startup Items:
360ControlDaemon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/360ControlDaemon
Launch Daemons:
[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.f-secure.aua.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.f-secure.clstate-periodic.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.f-secure.fsavd.dbhelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.f-secure.fsavd.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.f-secure.fsmac.firewall.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.f-secure.fsmac.fsupdated.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
[System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.canon.MFManager.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.f-secure.trasher.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.robohippo.hippovnc.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] [email protected]
[not loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
Charter Security Suite
Internet Plug-ins:
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 3rd-Party support link
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 3rd-Party support link
OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 3rd-Party support link
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101736: Version: AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.17 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.2 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
CANONiMAGEGATEWAYDL: Version: 3.2.0.1 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
Safari Extensions:
iTube Studio: Version: 3.0.0.3
DoNotTrackMe: Online Privacy Protection: Version: 3.1.1064
DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video>: Version: 2.1.2.145
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
DivX 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
Flip4Mac WMV 3rd-Party support link
Growl 3rd-Party support link
Java 3rd-Party support link
XBox 360 Controllers 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
BrFirmDataProvider: Version: 1.0.4 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
/Applications/Brother/Utilities/Firmware Update Tool/BrMain/resources/BrFirmDataProvider.app
SLLauncher: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/OutOfBrowser/SLLauncher.app
ControlCenter: Version: 2.5.3 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/ControlCenter/ControlCenter.app
RemoteSetup: Version: 3.0.9 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/RemoteSetup.app
CameraWindow: Version: 7.11.0.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Applications/Canon Utilities/CameraWindow/CameraWindow.app
X-Plane 10 Demo Installer: Version: 3.10r1 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
/Users/[redacted]/Downloads/X-Plane 10 Demo Installer.app
iSkysoft Helper Compact: Version: 2.2.6.4 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/Helper/iSkysoft Helper Compact.app
Amazon MP3 Downloader: Version: INFO_PLIST_VERSION - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 595.37 GB Disk used: 380.36 GB
Destinations:
My Passport for Mac [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 931.36 GB
Total number of backups: 57
Oldest backup: 2013-04-27 02:29:05 +0000
Last backup: 2013-11-20 10:53:56 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 931.36 GB < (Disk used 380.36 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
2% WindowServer
1% fscuif
1% fsaua
0% EtreCheck
0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
315 MB iTunes
119 MB softwareupdated
106 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
86 MB Safari
78 MB com.apple.MediaLibraryService
Virtual Memory Information:
943 MB Free RAM
1.22 GB Active RAM
758 MB Inactive RAM
568 MB Wired RAM
1.32 GB Page-ins
103 MB Page-outsIn addition to Mike's suggestions, you only have 4GB of RAM and Mavericks does use more RAM than other versions. You may also want to look at the apps that startup on login and the possiblity of upgrading RAM.
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Hi...
My name is Turgay and have been using computer since 1982... 2 years ago, because of my friend's advice, i bought an iMac... It was the first Mac that i use... Till that, i was using normal PC's...
I bought an 24" iMac on July 2009 and started to use... I realized that i spent my 27 years for using (fixing) computers. Because the Mac was perfect. After iMac, i was really fine with my computer... But after something, that doesn't bother me, happened. The screen started to get cloudy and black... And it increased. Because of this i took my iMac to your authorised distributor http://www.bilkom.com.tr...
They changed my screen but in 2 months it happened 3 times and i wanted them to change my iMac with new one, under customer laws... In our country, the device must be changed with new one if the same problem occurs in 3 months. Because i know the customer satisfaction of Apple, i didn' worry about it but Bilkom refused my will... I spoke with them for 2 months but nothing happened, they just told me, it' not our problem.
Because of this speech, i sued them on June 2011... Last week, i won the case but just for the return of invoince... It costs 3.200 Turkish Liras (1.800$) and there's no 24" iMac unused... Bilkom again refused to give me an iMac... I thought that Apple's customer satisfaction can't be like this... I didn't write anything to Apple till now but if i can't get an iMac, i must return to normal PC after 2 years... And i don't want that... I offered an iMac 27" with core i7... No matter Bilkom accepts or not, they don't care of me... I'm a customer, they should do... I've never seen such a like company. I hope the real Apple will help my problem and save me from Bilkom...
Waiting for your reply... Thanks and regards...
Turgay Kala
General ManagerUnfortunately, you are not communicating with Apple here - we are all other users volunteering our time to help with technical problems.
Here is a list of Apple contacts; there is no email address - you will need to write a letter to their corporate headquarters or call them:
http://www.apple.com/contact/
Although, it appears that your problem is with a third party store and that you have won in court - did you get your money back? 24" iMacs have not been made since 2009 or 2010. Now there are 21" and 27" iMacs. -
My iMac is running REALLY slow - could my hard disc be dying?
I have a 27" iMac with a Core i7 chip and 8GB of RAM.
It has always worked really fast with absolutely everything I have tried with it.
It worked fast in Snow Leopard. I upgraded it to Lion in September and it still worked fast (though a tiny bit slower perhaps than Snow Leopard).
In the last week, the machine's speed has slowed to an absolute crawl and I am almost constantly getting the spinning beach ball.
By a crawl, I mean that opening iTunes can take five minutes. Opening the Applications folder inside Finder can take five minutes. During times of this slowness, the spinning beach ball animates and I can move the mouse cursor, but I cannot get any response from the machine.
The machine is so slow that it is basically unuseable - I cannot wait five minutes to open a document!
What is really odd is that the computer will be really slow for 4-5 minutes, and then for perhaps 40 seconds or so I will get maybe one minute where things work at normal speed, before the speed drops back to a crawl.
Even restarting the computer takes an age.
My theory is that something in the computer has malfunctioned - either the motherboard or the hard disc.
I have run a few disc utilities (Disk Utility, Apple Hardware Diagnostic, TechTool 5), and the SMART status of the hard disc appears to be good and all reports check back successfully - although they all take longer than I'd expect. Whether that means the hard disc is really fine or not, I'm not clear.
I had one other hard disc die on me once, and that just died and was gone, but if my hard disc is dying then the problem it is showing is intermittent, i.e. it is only working part of the time.
At present I am making a backup of the iMac hard disc by having booted the iMac in Firewire Target Disk mode and manually copying files across. However, so far it has only managed 1GB of about 432GB and is estimating that it will take 2 days to complete the task.
Has anybody got any advice - is the hard disc or the motherboard a likely culprit?
The machine is under warranty at least, but I can't figure out whether to drag the machine into an Apple Store, or to phone AppleCare and get them to pick it up. If the machine would be repaired while I waited at the Apple Store then that would be great but I doubt this would happen.
Any advice?
P.S. I checked for runaway processes... nothing to find in Activity Monitor. CPU is about 5% max. Lots of free RAM. Hard disc is only half full.mccltd wrote:
How do you load lion onto an exteranl disk and boot from it as I would like to give that a try.
I presume its an external usb drive?
thanks
Hi,
I used an external hard disc - Western Digital MyBook 500GB drive.
All you do is run the Lion installer, which you can redownload from the Mac App Store if you've bought it. As part of the Lion installer it asks which drive you want to install to.
To save having to redownload the Lion installer every time, once the download has completed from the Mac App Store, but before you have run the installation process, you can extract the disc image and retain it for future use (if you don't extract the disc image, then it gets deleted at the end of the installation process and you'd have to redownload it again next time). -
IMac starting to really bog down
By bog down i mean that every operation has a noticeable lag time before initiating.
I have a mid-2010 iMac
3.2 GHz Intel Core i3
512 MB ATI Radeon graphic card
12 GB 1333MHz DDR3 in 4-4-2-2 formation
I'm using about 75% of my 1 TB hardrive (more than i should I know but not enough to be slowing down machine this dramatically).
The problem was most apparent initially when running Aperture and I'd be getting a lot of spinning beach balls and painfully slow processing. I rebuilt the aperture library but that didn't seem to fix the problem. The interesting thing is the activity monitor is not showing any obvious problems. Plenty of RAM available (over 8 gb), CPU is only running at about 10% on average with no noticeable spikes when trying to open a program nor any evidence of CPU Load spikes in the histogram.
The steps I've taken:
1. verified disk
2. repaired permissions
3. rebuilt aperture library
4. closed all applications and tried to open one at a time. all are slow to open.
Here is my most recent system diagnostic report from the Console. I really can't make sense of it unfortunately but was hoping some more technically literate folks out there might see something obvious that points to an identifiable problem.
Process:
coresymbolicationd [719]
Path:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreSymbolication.framework/coresymbolicationd
Identifier:
coresymbolicationd
Version:
141
Code Type:
X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Responsible:
coresymbolicationd [719]
User ID:
0
Date/Time:
2013-12-30 18:51:57.908 -0600
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: C37F79B1-DC99-0E09-DA0E-38B0F635A22C
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-overcommit-priority
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x0000000109e85000
VM Regions Near 0x109e85000:
VM_ALLOCATE
0000000109a00000-0000000109a89000 [ 548K] rw-/rw- SM=PRV
--> mapped file
0000000109a89000-0000000109ec5000 [ 4336K] r--/rwx SM=S/A /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data
mapped file
0000000109ec5000-000000010a301000 [ 4336K] rw-/rwx SM=S/A /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/grow.3X7N0TQ
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-overcommit-priority
0 libsystem_platform.dylib
0x00000001075bf0de _platform_memmove$VARIANT$Nehalem + 254
1 coresymbolicationd
0x00000001067983bc 0x106791000 + 29628
2 coresymbolicationd
0x00000001067987e9 0x106791000 + 30697
3 coresymbolicationd
0x0000000106792a23 0x106791000 + 6691
4 libxpc.dylib
0x000000010762d510 _xpc_connection_call_event_handler + 58
5 libxpc.dylib
0x000000010762c123 _xpc_connection_mach_event + 2124
6 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ebafe _dispatch_client_callout4 + 9
7 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ec3b8 _dispatch_mach_msg_invoke + 143
8 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ea633 _dispatch_queue_drain + 359
9 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072eb69e _dispatch_mach_invoke + 154
10 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072e9fa3 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 75
11 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072eb193 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 40
12 libsystem_pthread.dylib
0x00000001075dcef8 _pthread_wqthread + 314
13 libsystem_pthread.dylib
0x00000001075dffb9 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-overcommit-priority
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x00000001074c7caa __sigsuspend_nocancel + 10
1 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072f27e4 _dispatch_sigsuspend + 21
2 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072f27cf _dispatch_sig_thread + 45
Thread 2:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x00000001074c8662 kevent64 + 10
1 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ea43d _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 239
2 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ea152 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000109ec5000 rbx: 0x00000001091df198 rcx: 0x0000000000000010 rdx: 0x000000000003f1c9
rdi: 0x000000010a2c0fd0 rsi: 0x0000000109e84fd0 rbp: 0x00000001090c03c0 rsp: 0x00000001090c03c0
r8: 0x0000000000000005 r9: 0x000000000b6e0000 r10: 0x0000000000000001 r11: 0x000000000043c000
r12: 0x00000001091df198 r13: 0x00007f8b604175e0 r14: 0x0000000109a89000 r15: 0x0000000109ec5000
rip: 0x00000001075bf0de rfl: 0x0000000000010202 cr2: 0x0000000109e85000
Logical CPU:
2
Error Code:
0x00000004
Trap Number:
14
Binary Images:
0x106791000 -
0x10679bfff coresymbolicationd (141) <C459E6EE-7EE9-36F8-BCE9-7FC72C550772> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreSymbolication.framework/coresymbolication d
0x1067a3000 -
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0x106843000 -
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0x10760a000 -
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0x1078db000 -
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0x107c44000 -
0x107cd3fff com.apple.Metadata (10.7.0 - 800.12.2) <A9F5D471-8732-3F95-A4A2-33864B92A181> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Metadata
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0x108067fff com.apple.LaunchServices (572.23 - 572.23) <8D955BDE-2C4C-3DD4-B4D7-2D916174FE1D> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchS ervices.framework/Versions/A/LaunchServices
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0x108108fff com.apple.DictionaryServices (1.2 - 208) <A539A058-BA57-35EE-AA08-D0B0E835127D> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Diction aryServices.framework/Versions/A/DictionaryServices
0x108131000 -
0x108141fff libbsm.0.dylib (33) <2CAC00A2-1352-302A-88FA-C567D4D69179> /usr/lib/libbsm.0.dylib
0x10814c000 -
0x1081afff7 com.apple.SystemConfiguration (1.13 - 1.13) <F05F4149-981B-380B-8F50-51CE804BBB89> /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfi guration
0x1081ed000 -
0x108445ff1 com.apple.security (7.0 - 55471) <233831C5-C457-3AD5-AFE7-E3E2DE6929C9> /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
0x10858f000 -
0x108679fff libsqlite3.dylib (158) <00269BF9-43BE-39E0-9C85-24585B9923C8> /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib
0x108690000 -
0x108777ff7 libxml2.2.dylib (26) <A1DADD11-89E5-3DE4-8802-07186225967F> /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
0x1087b0000 -
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0x1087d7ffd libOpenScriptingUtil.dylib (157) <19F0E769-0989-3062-9AFB-8976E90E9759> /usr/lib/libOpenScriptingUtil.dylib
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0x1087efff0 libbz2.1.0.dylib (29) <0B98AC35-B138-349C-8063-2B987A75D24C> /usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib
0x1087f9000 -
0x1087fefff com.apple.DiskArbitration (2.6 - 2.6) <F8A47F61-83D1-3F92-B7A8-A169E0D187C0> /System/Library/Frameworks/DiskArbitration.framework/Versions/A/DiskArbitration
0x10880e000 -
0x108815fff com.apple.NetFS (6.0 - 4.0) <8E26C099-CE9D-3819-91A2-64EA929C6137> /System/Library/Frameworks/NetFS.framework/Versions/A/NetFS
0x10881f000 -
0x10882afff libkxld.dylib (2422.1.72) <C88EF3E6-B31F-3E12-BE9B-562D912BA733> /usr/lib/system/libkxld.dylib
0x108836000 -
0x108841ff7 com.apple.NetAuth (5.0 - 5.0) <C811E662-9EC3-3B74-808A-A75D624F326B> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NetAuth.framework/Versions/A/NetAuth
0x10884f000 -
0x108b4efff com.apple.Foundation (6.9 - 1056) <D608EDFD-9634-3573-9B7E-081C7D085F7A> /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
0x108d8c000 -
0x108d8dfff liblangid.dylib (117) <9546E641-F730-3AB0-B3CD-E0E2FDD173D9> /usr/lib/liblangid.dylib
0x108d96000 -
0x108db1ff7 libCRFSuite.dylib (34) <FFAE75FA-C54E-398B-AA97-18164CD9789D> /usr/lib/libCRFSuite.dylib
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0x7fff66cc6000 -
0x7fff66cf9817 dyld (239.3) <D1DFCF3F-0B0C-332A-BCC0-87A851B570FF> /usr/lib/dyld
External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 4500
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=35.3M resident=33.3M(94%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=2044K(6%)
Writable regions: Total=47.8M written=2120K(4%) resident=2688K(5%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=45.2M(95%)
REGION TYPE
VIRTUAL
===========
=======
Dispatch continuations
8192K
Kernel Alloc Once
4K
MALLOC
28.3M
MALLOC (admin)
16K
STACK GUARD
12K
Stack
65.1M
VM_ALLOCATE
572K
__DATA
3168K
__LINKEDIT
9892K
__TEXT
25.7M
__UNICODE
544K
mapped file
9808K
shared memory
4K
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=======
TOTAL
150.5M
From the looks of this report, it appears like on Thread 0 crashed. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to fix this.
Any help would be really appreciated. I'm kind of at my wits end here.
-RickIf you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything suggested in this comment. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed, as well as some other aspects of the configuration that may be related to the problem.
Don’t be alarmed by the seeming complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out. Here's a brief summary: In each of two steps, you copy a line of text from this web page into a window in another application. You wait about a minute. Then you paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is copy; paste; paste again. That's all there is to it. Details follow.
You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken while booted in “normal” mode. If the system is now running in safe mode and is bootable in normal mode, reboot as usual. If it only boots in safe mode, use that.
Below are instructions to enter UNIX shell commands. They do nothing but produce human-readable output. However, you need to think carefully before running any program at the behest of a stranger on a public message board. If you question the safety of the procedure suggested here — which you should — search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them.
The commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it.
If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
PB=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy; PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/ /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; PC () { o=$(grep [^[:blank:]] "$2"); PR "$1"; }; PF () { o=$($PB -c Print "$2" | awk -F'= ' \/$3'/{print $2}'); PR "$1"; }; PN () { [[ $o -eq 0 ]] || printf "\n%s: %s\n" "$1" $o; }; { system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | sed '8!d;s/^ *//'; o=$(system_profiler SPDiagnosticsDataType | sed '5,6!d'); fgrep -q P <<< "$o" && o=; PR "POST"; o=$(($(vm_stat | awk '/Pageo/{sub("\\.",""); print $2}')/256)); o=$((o>=1024?o:0)); PN "Pageouts (MiB)"; s=( $(sar -u 1 10 | sed '$!d') ); [[ ${s[4]} -lt 90 ]] && o=$( printf 'User %s%%\t\tSystem %s%%' ${s[1]} ${s[3]} ) || o=; PR "Total CPU usage"; [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(ps acrx -o comm,ruid,%cpu | sed '2!d'); PR "Max %CPU by process (name, UID, %)"; o=$(kextstat -kl | grep -v com\\.apple | cut -c53- | cut -d\< -f1); PR "Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions"; o=$(launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)|\.[0-9]+$/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic user agents"; o=$(launchctl getenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES); PR "Inserted libraries"; PC "cron configuration" /e*/cron*; o=$(crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "User cron tasks"; PC "Global launchd configuration" /e*/lau*; PC "Per-user launchd configuration" ~/.lau*; PF "Global login items" /L*/P*/loginw* Path; PF "Per-user login items" L*/P*/*loginit* Name; PF "Safari extensions" L*/Saf*/*/E*.plist Bundle | sed 's/\..*$//;s/-[1-9]$//'; o=$(find ~ $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 \) | wc -l); PN "Restricted user files"; cd; o=$(find -L /S*/L*/E* {,/}L*/{A*d,Compon,Ex,In,Keyb,Mail/Bu,P*P,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo}* -type d -name Contents -prune | while read d; do ID=$($PB -c 'Print :CFBundleIdentifier' "$d/Info.plist") || ID=; ID=${ID:-No bundle ID}; egrep -qv "^com\.apple\.[^x]|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|HDPro|HighPoint|driver\.stex|hp-fax|JMicron|microsoft\.MDI|print|SoftRAID" <<< $ID && printf '%s\n\t(%s)\n' "${d%/Contents}" "$ID"; done); PR "Extrinsic loadable bundles"; o=$(find /u*/{,*/}lib -type f -exec sh -c 'file -b "$1" | grep -qw shared && ! codesign -v "$1"' {} {} \; -print); PR "Unsigned shared libraries"; o=$(system_profiler SPFontsDataType | egrep "Valid: N|Duplicate: Y" | wc -l); PN "Font problems"; for d in {,/}L*/{La,Priv,Sta}*; do o=$(ls -A "$d"); PR "$d"; done; } 2> /dev/null | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 1 done'
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take up to a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. Wait for the line "Step 1 done" to appear below what you entered. The output of the command will beautomatically copied to the Clipboard. All you have to do is paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-Vagain. Please don't copy anything from the Terminal window. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/ /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; { o=$(sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|calendarse|cups|dove|isc|ntp|post[fg]|x)/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic daemons"; o=$(sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook); PR "Login hook"; o=$(sudo crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "Root cron tasks"; o=$(syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail -n25 | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'); PR "Log check"; } 2>&- | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 2 done'
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
You can then quit Terminal. Please note:
☞ Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — type only your login password when prompted.
☞ When you type your password, you won't see what you're typing.
☞ If you don’t have a password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
☞ Step 2 might not produce any output, in which case the Clipboard will be empty. Step 1 will always produce something.
☞ The commands don't change anything, and merely running them will do neither good nor harm.
☞ Remember to post the output of both steps (unless you had to skip Step 2.) It's already in the Clipboard after you complete each step. You don't have to copy it. Just paste into a reply
☞ If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of either command, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
☞ Don't post what you see in the Terminal window. The output is copied automatically to the Clipboard.
☞ Don't paste the output of Step 1 into the Terminal window. Paste it into a reply. -
Help on opening memory access door on new 24" iMac- screw is really tight !
Trying to open the memory access door on my new 24" Intel iMac. It's the one with only one screw. Manual says to use a #2 Phillips but it looks like the assembler used a heavy duty high power screwdriver when it was built. Any tips on how to get the stupid screw out ? This is a really cheesy way of attaching the door. I'd think something that could be removed easier could have been designed.
The door was much better on the iMac G3 (slot-loading) models. A 10p/dime would do the job if you didn't have a big screwdriver:
Mine was tight so I found I had to brace the whole machine to get enough purchase to unscrew it.
mrtotes -
How much faster or better is the new iMac... really?
Hello all,
I have a 20" 2.33Ghz C2D iMac w/256Meg video RAM, and 3Gig of RAM. I understand that many factors come in to play when you compare the over all speed of a computer. How much faster, over all, is the new iMacs over the system I have? Has anyone tested the two next to each-other yet? I am sure the new one is faster in some ways, but is it really lots faster in over all performance, or just a little?
Apple //GSHi Patrice,
Within Apple’s slim new 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs are NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, based on our new Kepler-class architecture, which helps make them up to 60 percent faster than last year’s models. This follows news in June that Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display uses Kepler GeForce GPUs.
The new 27-inch iMac offers the GeForce GTX 660M as its base GPU, with even faster GeForce GTX 675MX or GeForce GTX 680MX GPUs available. The 21.5-inch model comes with the GeForce GT 640M GPU, with an available upgrade to the GeForce GT 650M GPU.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/10/big-imac-news-less-heft-more-kepler/
So, any Apps that use the GPU to assist GPU should be much faster.
Though I don't see it listed here, it may be too new, I suspect it may be supported...
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html -
Got my new Intel iMac---IT's REALLY GREAT!
OMG is this thing cool!
Hooked up my old Mac via firewire and the transfer of data took 30 minutes.
All my photos, folders, music, etc came over.
Bookmarks for Safari too!
Thank you Mr. Jobs!
If you have been thinking of getting one of these, it's really cool! (And I've only been playing with it for 1 hour!)
iMac G4 17 w/Superdrive Mac OS X (10.4.5)Enjoy the most innovative product.
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My mac is really dam hot, is it supposed get this hot?
As old as your iMac is, have you cleaned out the dust? Dust buildup can lead to over heating issues. Remove any and all things plugged into it including the power cord, Remove the RAM access grille. Vacuum all openings starting with the RAM access area (air intake). Vacuum all ports and plugs, DVD slot and the opening across the top of the rear of the body. Blow compressed air through all your openings and vacuum again to remove any dust you loosend. Reinstall the RAM grille. Plug in the keyboard and mouse if not blue tooth. Insert power cord...
You are now in a perfect position to do a
SMC RESET
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and ALL peripherals.
Wait 15 seconds.
Attach the computers power cable.
Wait another 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on the computer.
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Hi,
I have a 27" Late 2009 iMac, and the top and upper back, get really really hot! I am worried that my iMac might overheat or something so please help and tell me if this is normal!As old as your iMac is, have you cleaned out the dust? Dust buildup can lead to over heating issues. Remove any and all things plugged into it including the power cord, Remove the RAM access grille. Vacuum all openings starting with the RAM access area (air intake). Vacuum all ports and plugs, DVD slot and the opening across the top of the rear of the body. Blow compressed air through all your openings and vacuum again to remove any dust you loosend. Reinstall the RAM grille. Plug in the keyboard and mouse if not blue tooth. Insert power cord...
You are now in a perfect position to do a
SMC RESET
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and ALL peripherals.
Wait 15 seconds.
Attach the computers power cable.
Wait another 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on the computer.
It is the 5 second timing that initiates the reset. -
My iMac is acting really weird lately....
So I got my iMac in 2008 I think. Around that time. So sometimes it's slow but it still works fine... Initially I had 1 GB of RAM and last year I got 3 more so now I have 4GB of RAM. (I don't know whether this may be related to my problem but I thought I'd mention it) My iMac has been acting unusually weird for a week or so. It starts up soo slow, it takes about 7 minutes. Yesterday it started up just fine though.... Today I wanted to start it up and I got to the desktop screen but the little applications on the top bar (the wifi, volume, language preference, caffeine etc) wouldn't all load (just a few of them were there)... and then I got the spinning wheel.... which wouldn't stop spinning... so I shut it down because nothing would work and I started it up again. No luck. I tried again and this time I was stuck for 15 minutes at the grey apple logo thing before I got to the desktop screen... Also, I have an app called Caffeine. A few days ago it disappeared from my top bar without having done anything... I use it so that the desktop doesn't go into sleep mode/screensaver mode... so I noticed the screen saver and I thought it was weird because I haven't had screen savers for years. The first time it started to act strange was a week ago, when I started the iMac and it told me to enter my apple ID and password - but I never logged out of it! This happened multiple times. Once, I entered everything correctly and it told me that it was incorrect. When I restarted, it got me right into my apple ID.. Also Chrome was asking me for a password for 'local items' - which is really weird because I never had something like that. Or at least never seen that before..... I also searched for viruses and repaired some permissions but it didn't change much... now it doesn't ask me to log into my apple ID anymore but it takes so long to start up... But once it's finished starting up it works flawlessly. I'm really worried. What's happening to my iMac?
Do the following:
Repair the hard drive and permissions using Disk Utility.
Backup your files to an external drive.
Boot from your installer DVD.
Erase the hard drive.
Reinstall Snow Leopard.
Upgrade Snow Leopard to 10.6.8.
Reinstall any third-party software from original media.
Restore your data files.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Drive Partition and Format
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. After formatting is finished quit Disk Utility and return to the installer. Complete Snow Leopard installation.
5. Download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8
The easiest way to do the backup step is to connect a formatted, empty hard drive of the same capacity or greater than your internal drive. Clone the internal drive to it.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
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My iMac superdrive is *really* loud -- is this normal?
Most of the time when I put a disc in my superdrive (20" Intel iMac), the drive revs up and there's a very loud groaning/grinding noise. Sometimes it doesn't happen, but most of the time it does.
Is this normal sounds for this drive? Everything about the iMac is so quiet and nice, I find it hard to believe thats normal.
Other than the noise, the drive seems to work fine.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
StephenHello,
The problem with discussions, is that it's hard to convey sounds. What I may interpret your description as could be totally different than what you mean.
But, I'll tell you that the CD-ROM / SuperDrive in all of my recent Macs have been very noisy.
I've had two iMac G5's with SuperDrives, a Mac Mini and iBook with Combo Drives, and I've also got an iMac G3 with CD-ROM, and have had several other Macs over the years.
On all of these systems, there is a very, very loud sound when the disks are spinning. But, you can tell that this is a spinning motion you are hearing. It's very loud, and very obnoxious. But, it's present on all my systems.
Now, my external Sony DVD-R drive on my Mac Mini and the DVD-R drive in my PC are extremely quiet even when in active use. You can barely hear them.
So, from my experience, the drives Apple uses (or at least the way they use them) are much louder than the other drives I've used.
But, it's hard telling from your description what you are hearing.
There is usually a sound that the drives will make when they are reading the disks and trying to locate information. To me, it sounds kind of like "Chee Chee..., Chee Chee..., Chee Chee".
But, from your description, I can't really tell what you are hearing.
But, if you are at all unsure, I would take it into your local service center and have them listen to it while you are there. That way you can point-out the noise you are hearing, and have them tell you if it's normal.
I hope this helps. -
Basically, the internet works in fits and starts - on the other computers it works fine, so its not the actual wifi thats the problem, BUT:
So when I open a browser, I can type in what to search and hits will show up - thats fine. But as soon as I enter a site, say Amazon or whatever, when i click on something it says 'waiting for....to respond', and although the little circle goes round and round, no matter how long i wait, the page never loads. EVER!!
I've tried agin and again, even downloading new Airport software etc - nothing doing.
For some weird reason, youtube seems to work fine (the video loads quickly, though other parts of the page, such as the comments, never load) - proof that the actual internet is okay, just some kind of glitch.
I connected the ethernet cable and that made the internet work amazingly, but as soon as i disconnected it...boom. It was back to not working.
If anyone's experieced the same thing or even if not, if you have some sage advice you could share and out me out of my misery....!!
Here's hoping (fingers crossed)
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Firefox behaves REALLY badly at random times and I'm worried about it?
So here's what happens. This happens at random times, unexpectedly. I click on a new link, any link, and suddenly, Firefox blares up, automatically turns to private browsing, and goes to a bunch of random websites.
Then, it lands on ''www.xnxx<!-- -->.com'',(<sub>'''edit''', un-linked -J99</sub> ) which I have identified to be a pornography website. After that, it suddenly picks on a random porn video and crashes before the video plays.
This really worries me, because just before this first happened, I had done a quick scan with both Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro, and there was absolutely NO problem.
Not only that, I had gone only to trusted websites.
I'm a high school sophomore, so this could turn out REALLY badly for me if someone sees this happening and thinks that I'm TRYING to watch that stuff.
I have already sent a crash report to Firefox and included the website that I crashed in, which is the porn website. I haven't sent any other details, though.
Could I be getting hacked? I don't think so, because this only happens with Firefox; Chrome, Opera, Maxthon, and IE don't have this problem.
I'm running Firefox 15.0.1 in Windows 7 x64 (why the crash report said Windows NT x86, I have no idea).
PLEASE help me fix this!On looking at your System Details aside I note that you include a Crash ID.
That particular crash is probably related to use of Norton software. You may find that you can use the Norton security software without crashes if you disable the '''Norton Security Safe '''feature (Please confirm - or otherwise - that you are using that ). Note I am not suggesting you turn of the security software, just the utility/toolbar.
For forum cross referencing purposes
* Report for your CrashID [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/6658b458-9955-4c98-8054-118f12121007 6658b458-9955-4c98-8054-118f12121007]
** Crash Signature:'' coffplgn.dll@0x3b4e2''
** Related Bugs ? (none specifically listed). <br /> Apparently this one may be related'' Bug 783369 - Norton Confidential 2012 crashes (couictlr.dll, coffplgn.dll) ''
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