Intel Mac :: Applications Freeze When Left Idle?
Feb 27, 2012
Since the recent software update (early Feb I believe) my Mac has begun to freeze, first finder, then safari/chrome, followed by all other applications.
I have set up Activity Monitor to track what is causing the issue, however when the computer freezes I cannot open Activity Monitor (obviously).
I have contacted Apple Care with the hope that they could provide some assistance, we deleted all startup files (and the other startup related files in library), ran disk utility and repaired permissions.
We noticed that spotlight was using a lot of the CPU, and I removed my external time machine harddrive (as it appeared that it was damaged).
The freezing still occured, so I reinstalled Lion. The computer appeared to be working again... until it began to freeze again.
Info:
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), 16g ram, 2tb harddrive.
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Apr 18, 2012
My iMac, which was new Christmas 2011, has developed a strange fault. If the computer is left idle for any length of time, I then find that there is no sound and the speaker symbol at the top of the screen has disappeared. Sound is only regained by rebooting.
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iMac
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Sep 27, 2009
I have this macbook that at the beginning was working great, but now, since a couple o week doesn't sleep anymore when left idle. I have tried quitting tons of deamons, programs turning off sharing and so on. Nothing. I set the sleep timer at 1 minute to check it. Nothing. It won't sleep. The curios thing is that unlike other user with the same problem who sleeps the computer manually and they find it on some minutes later, my macbook can sleep for days if manually put in sleep (Lid or Sleep from the menu). No automatic waiking, it just can't sleep when left idle. This is not the first time it happens. Some month ago the only solution was reformatting the drive and reloading Leopard. Right now i don't want to this again as i just loaded Snow Leopard since day 1.
So, summing up here's my situation:
the macbook can sleep manually (lid or menu). the macbook stay in sleep without waking up (just wake with normal wake). the macbook doesn't go to sleep if left idle for the time set in system pref (but it shut down. the monitor according to prefs). the macbook runs 10.6.1 with a new system, without loading anything, the computer can sleep if left idle. i can't tell if i have installed something that have screw up things. Just normal apps...
i can provide you as many logs as you want, just tell me which you need.
Here is a list of my processes running now, (sleep not working)
123 Activity Monitorjetmcquack1,5225,0 MBIntel (64 bit)
131 activitymonitordroot0,511,2 MBIntel (64 bit)
291 AirPort Base Station Agentjetmcquack0,041,6 MBIntel (64 bit)
304 airportdroot0,021,4 MBIntel (64 bit)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 21, 2012
I did a suggested software download/update a few days ago.
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iMac 10,1, Mac OS X (10.6.2), None
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iMac
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Late 2011 21.5"
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
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Jun 8, 2012
I bought an iMac about 2 weeks ago and when accessing files from external hard drives I will get the spinning beach ball and all of the programs will become unresponsive and the only way to relieve the problem is to power down the computer. We have two 3 TB Seagate HDs connected via USB.
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Specs:
IMac 27" 3,4 Ghz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM
1 TB HD
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB graphics
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I have a Macbook Pro Late 2008
Pro:2.53 GHz
Ram:4 GB
Serial:W88416BH1GA
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 27-inch screen, wireless
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010)
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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is this defect recognized by Apple and do they fix it for free?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac
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