IMac Hangs at loading screen or loads into os but crashes alot

I have had my iMac for 7 months now. This is the 1st problem I have had.
Sometimes it will hang on the loading screen with the apple logo and the spinning cursor.
Sometime's it would load into the OS but once I start doing anything on it like using firefox, msn etc it will just hang, freeze then it will crash and I get the beach ball thing spinning forever.
I took it to the apple store in UK, Westfield.
The guy turnt it on and it loaded, and he said there as nothing wrong with it, I told him there was but he insisted there wasnt anything wrong with it. Iv'e took it back home and now it crashes everytime it loads into the OS.
I ran hardware test and it came back with 0 errors I am now running an extended test just to double check.
Any ideas what could be causing the mac to behave like this? it just happened out of the blue 1 morning im very confused.
Cheers.

Sure looks like it but since you've had your iMac for less than a year it might be covered by the one year limited warranty. Do you have AppleCare?
I can see why you would be confused since the information you got at that repair provider was iffy.
You might want to check out this thread. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1337135&tstart=2
Carolyn
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