Imac restore glitch

Downloaded Maverick.
Lost all data.
Restored to earlier point.
No data there either.
Re-restored to date after Maverick installation to try to retrieve data from the other account it supposedly was moved to (per discussions about the Maverick problem here)
Now, computer only gives white screen with apple in the middle and various blackened words/digits/symbols in upper left quadrant.
Help?
Regards

Sorry for long header (first time user).....Problem solved this AM when I booted. Mail requested I reload my messages and it worked!

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IMac screen glitches - early 2009 27"

Having problems with screen glitches in my iMac
I have a late 2009 Intel 27" iMac 2.66 quad core i5 with I believe the ATI Radeon ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics card
I had been running Mountain Lion for a while without any problems. The first problem was the iMac wouldn't boot. I might not sure but this might have been right after a software OS update. The only way to boot was in safe mode. I verified the disk and repaired permissions and was able to boot normal but had screen glitches. These appear to be scrambled pixels or large just a large black window for the entire application portion of the screen. I zeroed the drive and re-installed Mountain Lion. Seemed to be working okay at first. Restored from backup and got the screen glitches again. Reinstalled Mountain Lion again. It appears the problem may be heat related. If I let the machine cool overnight it will boot fine. Once I let it run for a while, watch videos or facetime, the problem comes back. Installed smc fan control and all three fans appear to be working fine. I've tried resetting the PRAM and tried changing the color profile and none of these things work.
I'm thinking I need to replace the graphics card.
Anybody have any suggestions before I do this?

Hi, I thinkj you're onto it!
Have you blown the dust out lately?
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor

Intel imac display glitch and involuntary restart

Just want to know if anyone else has experienced this specific problem, there are plenty of complaints about intel imac displays but I can't be bothered to sift through them all trying to find a match for my problem.
A couple of months ago I was watching a video in quicktime and noticed that my screen was glitching and flashing fragmented diagonal lines - like a commodore 64 loading type thing. Then the spinning-ball came up and a force quit didn't do anything so I had to force shut down. I started up and it occured again. Then the screen went blank/black, but still lit up, and restarted without me doing anything. It also got stuck during start up the second time this occured. I panicked and ran out to buy a 500GB external drive, backed up all of my work and then re-installed mac osx from disk, archive and install job. This seemed to sort it and for the following two months it seemed OK. No sign of any problems.
Since then I have updated from 10.4.7 to 10.4.10 (which I have suspicion that it screwed the firmware in my motu 828 firewire audio interface, costing me a £130 repair - but that's another painful story).
It happened again tonight (the screen thing, not the motu). And the ball came up and I couldn't do anything. Force shut down, restart - screen glitching again. Then I had 2 unexpected restarts, one getting stuck in startup. Then a successful startup but accompanied by the glitchy graphics, mainly red/pink pixellated diagonal lines flickering in and out. I ran a disk first aid - no problems. Did a disk permission repair. Shut down and ran a hardware test, the first few minutes of the test the screen was still at it but then stopped glitching, hardware test found no errors (it was an extended test too). Now I'm back on it and it's all OK.
Any suggestions/similar stories?
When it occured 2 months ago I had the original ram that came with the imac. Now I have 2x1GB sticks of crucial ram.

That's it! Well, that's what I have. Unfortunately, I don't know about the cause, but I don't ever recall having it prior to an update going back about a year ago. I recall an update, and that update being immediately followed by some sort of Apple Graphics something-or-other. I feel pretty certain that's when I first noticed this. I just had my LCD replaced for another reason, but I think you'll agree, it's not an LCD issue. In my case, browser activity, scrolling up or down in a page, seems to be the most common trigger. I've also seen "pieces" of the torn page, on the screen when minimizing the browser to the dock (usually Firefox, but I think I've seen it with Opera and Safari too). Is there a way to find update packages installed somewhere? I'd know it if I saw it, and I'd definitely try removing that suspect package/update.
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IMac video glitches

About once a day I experience this strange graphical glitch.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goochrules/3049656804 (can i get this image to display inline in my post?)
The color of the glitch vary, from yellow to magenta to cyan (light blue) to green. The pattern shown is typical, but the size and shape varies, and the pattern is sometimes mirrored, with either the upper left or right corner being the darkest.
The glitch goes away when the window it appears in is minimized, or the program is exited, or the window is obscured behind another window... basically anything that forces the area with the glitch to be redrawn. I am not sure if moving the window in which the glitch appears causes the glitch to go away.
The iMac is a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 2 GB ram and a ATI Radeon X1600 graphics chip, running OS X 10.5.5.
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Thanks for the reply!
I've tried to unplug everything (before was plugged only a4tech mouse and HP printer), and reboot the system. Nothing helps . i've performed reboot about 10 times. Also I've tried to reset SMC (unplug power cord for 15 sec, then plug 5 sec after, cmd opt p r) so sad. I can't use apple service in my country because of lack of service at all, only unofficial... Anyway thanks for replies... I will try to find the way to transport iMac to the nearest country with an apple service.... So sad, it was never happened with me, first critical issue with an apple device.

How can a G3 iMac restore user settings on a shared computer?

We have a learning lab at our gradeschool. They use PowerPC iMacs, 500MHz (Indigo). We would like to run OS 10.3.9 in this shared user environment. Without locking down all of the preference settings, is there a way to simply restore the settings when the user logs in, or upon restart?
Is there a standard utility, or one that can be added, that will do this task?
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You could write an applescript program to copy a saved set of preference to replace the active preferences. You can try deleting the preferences folder. The preferences folder should be recreated. Try it & see what happends. I think this will force each application to re-initialize it self. This may be a little drastic.
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My new iMac exhibits sporatic glitches such as slow and sticking cursor, spinning beach ball, slow to open DVDs and CDs, and generally slower operation than my old G5 imac. The glitches seem to get worse the longer the computer is on and improve upon restart and zaping the pram. Any ideas??

Thanks for info. I just tried to wake up my iMac and it took over a minute for it to wake up and then another 15 seconds for the arrow cursor to appear. I tried to eject an audio CD and that took forever as well. I shut down the computer and the rotating gear never quit. I finally had to unplug the computer to shut it down. I restart and ran Disk Utility verify and repaired disk permissions. The following Warning was given:
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Lost all iPhone files after iMac restore

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A family member when trying to back their iPhone onto our old iMac, used the iTunes 'Restore' function which wiped the iPhone.
I assume the files should be somewhere on the iMac. It is an old G5 running OS/X 10.5.8. The iPhone is a 4S running IOS 6.
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Thanks, this is what we now understand. The issue seems to be some form of idiosynchrocy in the older Apple operating system. Later uses of the same function provided a 'Backup First' option. So it goes...

Imac restore impossible?

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Contact Apple Support and let them sort out this abysmally ill-designed process.

2009 27" 11,1 iMac graphics glitches bars and lime green circle

The last few weeks my iMac has been glitching every so often. It starts with a minor glitch usually wherever I'm using the mouse in a menu or selecting something and from there it mutilates everything I click on or switch to, even entire windows of applications become a complete mess of unrecognisable gibberish images.
If I then power down and restart I get a large, lime green oval in the centre of the screen on a grey background and other than the clock, almost nothing else even shows up on the menu bar or anything else, just grey with large bars running down the screen like the ones I've linked to here:
http://i.imgur.com/8z79nte.png
http://i.imgur.com/SRivY2e.png
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As babowa points out, the images you have linked to are just a white square and a black square. If you have screenshots showing the problem, you can add them to a post here by using the camera icon in the toolbar.
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IMac Restore

Let's say I need to restore my new iMac. If I use the commercial version of Mac OS X Tiger and did the updates and what not instead of the Restore DVD included with the iMac, would FrontRow find it's way onto the computer? I know the Combo Updates have different size requirements based on the type of computer one owns, and I guess I was wondering if FrontRow is in the update. Just a little curiosity. Thanks for any help.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
before spending money: The retail version of OSX Tiger is NOT compatible with Intel-Macs.
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IMac Dock glitch?

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I've noticed on my parent's 20" iMac Core Duo that whenever (most of the time) it wakes up from sleep, and I click on any icon in the dock, instead of opening the app, it just opens its location in Finder (as if I had right-clicked and chosen "Show in Finder"). It seems to only happen if I quickly click on an icon after waking, but if I wait a little while, it seems that the Dock icons have "loaded" and they work fine. This seems odd as I do not have this problem on my PowerBook or my MacBook. Any ideas as to what this is and how to fix it? Having to sit there and wait while the dock finished "loading" is a little annoying.
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"Dock glitch?"....."This seems odd as I do not have this problem on my PowerBook or my MacBook. Any ideas as to what this is and how to fix it?"
William,
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My iMac restored. how do I retrieve Apps allready downloaded and paid for?

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IMac restored from external hard drive-password wont work

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First, make sure caps lock is not on.
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Ways to get the alum iMac to glitch

Hi I thought I would start a thread that would compile some predictable/semi-predictable causes, of getting the hardware to glitch or freeze. I personally have not had my system for a long time, so I do not have much data to work with. I have had glitches but no freezes, there was one instance where glitching apeared to be happening system-wide which may have been indicative of an imminent lock-up but I managed to reboot the system before that happened. Here are my causes:
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