[X4U] imac and beach ball

[alexandre]

see below…

On May 20, 2008, at 1:52 AM, Christopher Collins wrote:

> 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.


this is where i start getting the beach ball.

you are right, i did and "erase and intall". i even "zero-ed" the drive!

my RAM is fine. i installed it in my macbook pro and haven't had any  
issues. so yes, i'm begining to think it's the hard drive.

thanks for the info…

alexandre
>
>
> 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
>