Imac freezing and playing up. Do I need an 'IMac Doctor' or just an upgrade?
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Hello, see how many of these you can answer...
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much free RAM & free Disk space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?
Also...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive & clear caches.)
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Type: Large, in-place FFTs - stress some RAM Min: 128 Max: 1024 InPlace: Yes Mem: 8 Time: 15
CPU: 2211MHz FSB: 200MHz [201MHz x 11.0 est.]
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Hello
Having major problems - my iMac keeps freezing and plays beeps (3 at a time) so I have to force shut down.
Is it anything to do with Lion? I installed it recently.
It's an iMac 3.6 core i5 with 8gb or ram, around 8 months old.
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ThanksContact Apple or your local AASP immediately, it's covered by a one year warranty and sounds like you may be experiencing a hardware failure. My best guess is it may be RAM related. If you purchased AppleCare call them ASAP and they can help you run it through some diagnostics, if you haven't purchased AppleCare yet you can still can while it's covered by the original 1 year warranty, AppleCare will extend the warranty to 3 full years from the original date of purchase and also provides telephone support.
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90% of the time when I play a song, the Ipod will freeze, staying at 0:00 (it will play music sometimes). If it plays music the miusic will stop after 10 sec and it will freeze for another 15 sec. If music doesn't play right away, it will unfreeze and play music after about 30 sec, or it will just go to the next song and repaet its cycle until I reset the Ipod. It also tends to heat up while freezing.
The Ipod will also not be recognized in Itunes or the Ipod updater, while it is recognized in My Computer, although when I try to format it through My Computer, upon clicking the F: drive, My Computer freezes. So, I can't even touch the Ipod on the computer to restore.
I have tried reseting, and it does nothing. I ran a hardive scan once and it just went to the main menu after 5 minutes, then I did it again and after the 30 minutes for the test it said it was fine.
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I had been using a Seagate Plug and Play external hardrive that needed no formatting on my Macbook Pro . However when I tried to use the same on my Macbook Air it did not allow me to drag files across the the hardrive.
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What should I do?Those gray squares with the "!" in the middle indicates that the library has lost the link to the original files. It can be caused by moving or renaming files/folder in the iPhoto Library folder via the Finder or an interruption of some sort while the Library6.iPhoto database file is being written to.
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Creating a new library while preserving the rolls from the original.
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Once this is completed you can delete the Originals folder from the desktop and the iPhoto Llibrary folder. If desired, you can keep the older library folder to try other fixes on it.
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Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
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