[X4U] imac and beach ball

[Nancy Spoolman]

I suppose you could get Disk Warrior or Tech tool and see if that  
tells you anything about the drive and errors. I usually stick to  
Hitachi, but have had excellent results with them. Others haven't.  
Still everyone should have one of the disk tools to check for errors,  
etc.

Nanc



> On May 19, 2008, at 5:12 PM, alexandre wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i have a 24" intel imac ("late 2006") that has been working fine  
> until last friday. that day, i took it to the local mac dealer to  
> have the hard drive upgraded, from the original 250gb to a 1000gb. i  
> decided to go for a samsung s-ata II spinpoint F1 with 32b cache at  
> 7200rmp. the installation was done by the dealer. at another dealer,  
> i bought a 3gb ram module, to bring up the total ram to 3gb, the  
> maximum on the machine.
>
> with the new drive, i thought it was a good time to upgrade to  
> leopard… and since then i've re-installed leopard 3 times! on a  
> regular basis, i'm getting the beach ball for about 15 to 20  
> seconds. the computer hangs (but i can still move the cursor) and  
> then everything is ok again. for example, software update is  
> downloading updates, i'm moving around a few windows and the whole  
> thing just freezes… very, very annoying.
>
> anyway, i did the following, and nothing has changed:
> removed the new ram,
> reinstalled leopard… 3 times,
> repaired permissions
> booted in safe mode
> booted in single user mode and checked the drive
> ran apple hardware test
>
> so… i'm begining to think there is a problem with the new drive.
>
> is there anything i can still do besides taking it back to the shop  
> for a hard drive exchange?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> alexandre
> 17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.5.2
> 24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 2.0gb / 250gb / X.4.11
>
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