[X4U] imac and beach ball

[Christopher Collins]

You don't say how you reinstalled Leopard, so I'll go with some guesses.

Bring the machine back to it's original RAM, new HDD and do an "erase  
and install" installation of leopard.

Download and Install 10.5.2

Let Software Update download all other updates.

If the system IS NOT working fine at this point, then the HDD is  
probably at fault.

If the system appears to be working fine at this point, then install  
the extra RAM (altho I think you might find that is your problem.)

To the best of my knowledge, the chip set used in all the current  
iMacs  supports only 2GB sticks of RAM.

So you can install 2 * 2gb and get about 3.5GB (due to chip set  
losses). I have done it here on my MacBook Pro C2D 17" (seems like my  
MBP might match yours) and it works brilliantly well.

And it's much cheaper than buying 3gb sticks too!

cjc



On 20/05/2008, at 9:12 AM, 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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