Crashing Alu iMac - thoughts please

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Hey guys,

Not mine, but repairing an 20" Alu iMac. Never really had a problem till recently where it's randomly freezing when opening applications etc. Then eventually when turning it on you couldn't go into any of the profiles.

So I took a look, ran the OSX disc and did a verify disk in the disk utility and it came up saying it had software issues and recommended a repair disk. So I ran a repair, restarted it and it went in all the profiles and appears to be fine.

Whilst we were at it, we supplied a new external hard drive and ran time machine as well, so everythings backed up.

It's started playing up again (only fixed it yesterday). My colleague is going to run a RAM checker on it 'Rember' - If that comes up clean my only guess is a faulty hard drive. But the hard drives on these a right PITA to get out, like, a proper pain...

Can anyone else suggest anything I might've missed? :)

Many Thanks,
Jake
 
Have you reset your pram and nvram and permissions on startup (I forget the key combination).

I tend to run Onyx when things are slowing down for no reason, generally does a clean of caches and permissions and a bunch of other stuff. Maybe give that a try?
 
bloodiedathame said:
I tend to run Onyx when things are slowing down for no reason, generally does a clean of caches and permissions and a bunch of other stuff. Maybe give that a try?
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Well it doesn't run slow...just freezes completely. Last time it was when they opened iCal?
 
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