Intel Mac :: Why Does It Keep Freezing/crashing
Apr 22, 2012
I've had my iMac since January 2011 and it has never had a problem, i've got the Apple care thing and tried ringing them but their offices are closed. Desperately need this fixed as i'm at uni and have deadlines in less than two weeks! Basically, my iMac started playing up yesterday, crashing and freezing, I thought nothing of it and reset it once or twice and it all seemed fine.Today I switched it on and it was fine until it crashed after a few minutes whilst using Safari.When I say crashed I mean the dock at the bottom wouldn't allow me to open any programmes and the top Apple menu won't allow me to click on anything IE Safari, File, View etc.I've restarted and shut down my computer many times, with difficulty - as stated I can't click on the Apple logo to switch it off. Based on google searches i've tried doing permission verify through disk utilities and repair disk permissions.I'm currently on the Mac and it's taken me 6 hours to get to this forum, register, and type this! Signs that it's going to crash or has crashed are the mouse really lagging, not being able to use the magic scroll, unresponsive buttons, unresponsive dock, and menu. Only things that will work when it crashes are the volume keys on my wireless keyboard, multi window button and brightness etc.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 25, 2012
The computer freezes or crashes fairly regularly - sometimes within minutes of being started. I have wiped the hard disk several times and done a clean reinstall of Lion. The computer still crashes - again within minutes of the Finder launching.However, it behaves itself when I boot it into Windows, or if I do a Safe Boot. This is starting to drive me nuts.Here's the latest kernel panic
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Late 2006 20"
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Jun 3, 2012
Since 2 weeks, after years of 0 problems, my iMac is continuously freezing or crashing when I use Apple software (Mail, Software Update, Garageband).
I've installed Kaspersky and even reinstalled Mac OS Lion, same problem. It goes away temportarily when I restart cleaning the PRAM. or turning off the extensions.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Intel Core 2 Duo
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May 3, 2012
I wonder if anyone can help me. I am not very technobod and there are progressively awful problems on my Mac until it is now so slow.I need to fix it before it dies altogether, or I throw it out of the window.....Problems:- Thin black lines randomly appearing across the windows. Ghosting of windows, they leave another version when moved. Sometimes windows just white out in areas with scribbly lines like pretend text. Sometimes windows have large bare patches all of a sudden or go see through Programs keep just quitting for no reason. The whole computer just freezes every now and then. Sometimes it waits and returns, occasionally it crashes completely. It is really painfully slow and can take me considerable minutes to open a new window or get something else up on screen. The tool bar sometimes goes all skeletal with no background. Loads more silly things like this... all random.Â
It is driving me absolutely potty. It's only used by me doing emails, filing pics, designing jam labels, letters, going on forums and things. I don't give it loads to manage unless I'm doing something spectacularly stupid. This computer ought to be big enough to run a design studio..I have tried mackeeper, found it gave more problems than it solved, and uninstalled that, I've tried Clean my mac and only cleaned some, I left the universal binaries and the Caches alone. I then tried Onyx and fixed some listings (I kept the report) and cleaned up the caches in that, then restarted. It is now even slower than before I started fixing it, and all of the problems are still here. I've got time machine for back up. What can be going wrong?
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iMac, I mac 6.1 intel core 2 duo
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Jul 3, 2012
I have a refubished iMac G5 OS X 10.6.8 desktop that was purchased in Aug, 2006. Recently it has been either freezing, shutting down completely, or the display will just shut off multiple times per day 20+ times/day. I am not interested in purchasing the $49 help from Apple. Is it time for a new computer?Â
I've been attempting some troubleshooting:
I have plenty of RAM- we installed more memory about 8 months ago. Temperature running at 40 degrees CÂ
I reset the SMU but now am hearing a loud fan sound and there is air blowing out of the horizontal vent in back of the desktop- which does not typically happen. The computer has not crashed since I reset the SMU 20 minutes ago. I'm worried about the noise.Â
Also, it has been really hot where I live, with a heat index of 110 today and I don't have air conditioning. Current indoor air temp is about 86 degrees F.  Â
Also, I have been seeing thin horizontal stripes across my screen for the past few months, related or unrelated issue?Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 14, 2012
Sometimes when I am surfing the internet each website gets slower and slower to load, and eventually the little loading rainbow icon just keeps going round and round and it has frozen and crashed. What concerns me also is the fact that when this happens it won't even let me 'force quit Safari'. Although I can still bring other applications up (other than the internet), it won't let me shut down or restart either. The only way to get the internet working again is to press the power button which I know I shouldn't do, but what choice do I have when it won't let me force quit, restart or shut down?Â
I am up to date with all the software updates. Because I was having this crashing problem I downloaded both iBoostUp (off app store) and MacKeeper off the internet to scan for hidden viruses etc, but it still hasn't eradiated the problem.
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macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.8), PC Desktop using Windows XP, service pack 2
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Sep 2, 2014
I've had this Macbook Pro Retina for about 3 months now, and it has been working fine until recently. For a few days now, my computer keeps freezing numerous amounts a day. I noticed that it usually happens when I'm on YouTube, I don't know if thats the cause or why its doing it. But every time I stay on YouTube for a while, out of nowhere, when I click on a new link, the loading icon appears, and it stays like that until I have to shut down my entire computer. I even try closing the tab and it just makes it worse.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Oct 20, 2009
I have the MacBook Pro 13" (mid Jun 09):
Nombre del modelo: MacBook Pro
Identificador del modelo: MacBookPro5,5
Nombre del procesador: Intel Core 2 Duo
Velocidad del procesador: 2,53 GHz
N�mero de procesadores: 1
N�mero total de n�cleos: 2
Cach� de nivel 2: 3 MB
Memoria: 8 GB
Velocidad del bus: 1,07 GHz
Versi�n de la ROM de arranque: MBP55.00AC.B03
Versi�n SMC (sistema): 1.47f2
N�mero de serie (sistema): XXXXXXXXXX
UUID de hardware: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sudden Motion Sensor:
Estado: Activado
I've bought from MacSales, two weeks ago, a Crucial SSD CT256M225.SBB1, 256 GB M225 2.5" SATA 3.0 Gb/s, with the firmware 1711, and each time that i use internally (SATA), the MBP get crashing, freezing ant it's investable. But if i use with Firewire or USB, the SSD it's fine. I would like to know what can i do.
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Mar 26, 2012
Aperture keeps freezing or crashing. What can I do? Need to finish photography job!
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MacBook, iOS 5.1
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Jun 17, 2014
IÂ recently installed the Macbook Air 2013 EFI 2.8 update which seems to cause my Macbook to freeze / crash more often coming out of sleep with an external HDD attached. It used to do it now and then but after the update (which claims to fix the issue it seems to happen more often). Â
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MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013)
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Jun 27, 2014
I currently have a 2013 MacBook pro which is running on Maverick 10.9.3 and through out the last few months it kept freezing and crashing and making these weird screen during the freeze, like a bunch of parallel lines. Per day when ever I turn on my MacBook to do my homework or anything else, the Mac kept craning at least 7 times a day. I looked at every possible thing that could cause it and all the results were disappointing. I check if my storage space was almost full or I'm using too much ram at one and my Mac kept getting worse and worse. Is there any tips on what I should do to prevent my Mac from Crashing ?
My MacBook specs:
-2.9 Ghz Intel core i7
-8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
-749.3 GB of storage (638.19 GB is free )
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Mar 27, 2012
for a couple of days now my little Mac Mini is crashing/freezing after some hours of uptime.. After a reboot I get this nice "Your computer was shutdown due to a problem"-report and it says Apple is informed, but honestly spoken when looking at the stacktrace there I have no clue why this is happening:Â
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Aug 28, 2014
A few times a day my mac will freeze. Usually I get the spinning beachball and will become unable to click anything, then move the mouse at all. Generally I'm not able to force close anything. It can usually be unfrozen by restarting, or if I go away for 10 minutes it will sometimes have sorted itself out. It appears that this can happen whilst using a variety of different programs, I haven't been able to spot any patterns as such. Â
So far I have been in contact with Apple support and have done everything they suggested, right up until re-installing Mavericks. I then took the laptop in to a repair shop, I the first time they replaced the logic board. Neither of these things solved the problem, if anything the crashing seems to happen more often now then it ever did.Â
I took it in to the repair shop for a second time, and they said that something had corrupted the system files, and that I should completely wipe the laptop, only restore my user date from time-machine, then install all the apps again one by one to try and work out which one had corrupted everything.Â
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Aug 21, 2014
Mac is running latest OSX Mavericks software.... But lately, my Mac is crashing repeatedly when I attempt to use iTunes or iBooks, both also the latest releases. Syncing with either iTunes or iBooks is nearly impossible. No disk repair or verification errors. I am thinking that there is some rogue software glitch that has me. I am thinking that I need to do a factory reset followed by a time machine data recovery.Â
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OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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May 24, 2012
I have an IMac where I upgraded my lion to snow leopard and since then I started having crashes and freezing which I have never experienced before.
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iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.3)
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Jun 10, 2012
I have some problems for my Imac. I don't know why when I open my browsers and some program keep crashing and freezing up.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 3, 2012
Over the past month Lion has been crashing, running slow and freezing constantly.\Â I am not used to having so many PC type issues on my Mac. I have done Disk repair in utilities and removed unecessary programs at start up.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 14, 2012
The IMac is about 2 years old, we have Lion installed, use a trackpad. Our mouse is sitting next to the trackpad, and until today, was not turned off. Would that have anything to do with it?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 14, 2012
My mac is freezing all the time, how can I fix this?
Info:IMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
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Apr 18, 2012
I am worried that my computer is heading for a crash. I bought it in January 2007 and it has served me well up until the last couple of months. The screen freezes more and more frequently. Although I have tried all three USB ports on the back, my wireless mouse freezes constantly. (Yes, I have installed new batteries multiple times.) Sometimes there are very brief flashes of black behind whatever screen I'm working on.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 8, 2012
Yesterday my wife's iMac froze and she tried powering off manually by holding the power button down on the back of the machine. Then she tried to boot it back up and got the welcome screen but she couldn't select an account to login to. Tries restarting again and gets a blank blue screen.Â
Call me out to take a look.Â
Not knowing much, I googled some help sites and performed the following:Â
SMC reset
PRAM reset
Verified disk permissions and repaired disk permissions
Boot from install disk (repaired permissions and verify disk)Â
Restarted and everything seemed to be working fine. Until this afternoon. She was in the middle of an upload and the computer restarted itself. She's in the middle of the upload again (almost finished). But when it's finished, I'd like to troubleshoot this some more.Â
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 16, 2012
My NEW iMac keeps freezing randomly.
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Jun 6, 2012
I have a 24'' Imac 3.06Ghz - 4Gb RAM - NVidia 8800GS video card It has been freezing since last month without any logic pattern.Reviewing the logs I supposed it was the memory card, because after the halts I found Nvidia error messages.Â
I ran Apple Hardware Test to find the error but it told me that was a phisical harddrive error, so I've replaced it with a new 2TB WD Drive and made a fresh install of Lion. Freezing again. I ran Techtool Pro 6 and does not show any errors.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 16, 2012
I am able to boot my machine up, but when I try to perform any functions on the machine, I get the spinning rainbow circle of death and the machine freezes. I'm running the latest version of Leopard. I connect to my network via Airport Extreme. This started happening yesterday 06/15/2012. I am receiving no error messages.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 7, 2012
This has been happening a lot lately. I've tried the Apple hardware test and it passed successfully. I reloaded Lion OS X but I still see an occasional problem with program freeze that I never saw before.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 1, 2012
I'm new to mac and iv had my imac 3 days now and im finding it crashing like every hour or less?
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 5, 2012
My computer is constantly freezing up.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 13, 2012
iMac freezing in Snow Leopard, several times a day, screen with turn a single color (blue, green, gray), and I have to hard boot
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
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May 30, 2012
I've had an iMac (late 2006) connected to a TV via mini DVI to HDMI for a while now, but today it's stopped working. The Apple menu wasn't visible on the TV and after changing the display settings froze. If I keep the HDMI cable in (even if the TV is turned off) the Mac freezes when it get's to the desktop view and jumbles the image with squares all over. If I take the cable out, it boots up fine. Putting the cable in then goes back to the original problem. I've searched around and tried deleting the com.apple.displays(2) file from ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost but no luck.Â
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iMac, Macbook
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Jun 7, 2012
I'm running a new iMac with OS X Lion 10.7.4. Whenever I open the application Preview, it goes to fullscreen and stops responding (presenting the rainbow wheel) for a number of minutes. This happens everytime the scanner scans a file and opens in on Preview, and oftentimes when the application is opened normally. It takes about 5-10 minutes for it to begin responding after opening it. I know Preview is a relatively lightweight application
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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