OS X V10.7 Lion :: IMac 2011 Keep Freezing
Apr 15, 2012My Imac 2011 is freezing more and more often and I can't identify any pattern or software that causes it.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Early 2011 MacBook Pro 15 Model Freezing
Feb 20, 2012I've been experiencing problems with my 2011 MacBook Pro 15 model with it freezing on me all the time.I have read around and came to a conclusion that it is a logic board problem on the logic board that supports 3 GBs on the superdrive bay.Have any of you had this problem? What did you do to get the problem resolved? I'm going to my local Apple store to try to get this fixed (With the current logic board that supports 6 GBs on the superdrive bay) or get a replacement laptop.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: 2011 Freezing Multiple Times A Day?
Jul 6, 2012I've had my 13" macbook pro (early 2011) for 10 months now and it's always frozen fairly regulary like once a week, but recently i freezes multiple times a day and says all my alpications are not responding and won't let me force quit so my only option is to restart the computer everytime.It seems like the problem mostly occurs whilst browsing the internet, but i have reinstalled both firefox and chrome and still have the same problem.Â
Also I'd like to do a hardware check as my year warenty is almost up but pressing and holding 'd' on start up doesn't work - has this changed?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook :: Microsoft Office 2011 Freezing On Using Templates
Jan 13, 2011You know all those templates and everything right? They all freeze for me. Word, PowerPoint & Excel. The programs work fine though, but I use the "recently used files" or whatever it's called and also the templates. The templates in PowerPoint are really awesome.
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Jul 5, 2012My 2011 27 inch iMac which was purchased in February 2012 is not turning on. I have never had a problem with it until now. I was working on Bootcamp and when I restarted the computer, it froze at the login screen so I force restarted the computer by pressing the power button down for 10 seconds. When I restarted the computer it did not want to turn back on. The only thing that happens when I restart much computer is I hear something that normally sounds since I purchased the computer which is either the hard drive or the DVD drive but no white screen comes up. I have tried to pull the power plug for 15 seconds and then plug it back into the back of the computer and wait five seconds before turning it on and I have also tried restarting the computer while pressing command option P and R. I removed the memory sticks and put them back in properly get the computer still did not turn on. I have a 27 inch mid 2011 iMac running Mac OS X 10 7.4. It is a quad core I73.4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM 256 GB factory installed SSD +1 TB hard disk drive with the AMD 6970 and 2 GB graphics card. Sorry for the long post.!I wanted to be as descriptive as possible as I am really trying to avoid bringing it to the Apple Store because I need the computer because I go to school online and have finals this week.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4), i7 3.4, 16GB, 256GB+1TB, 6970M 2GB
OS X V10.7 Lion :: IMac Keeps Freezing When Try To Move A Folder Or File?
May 19, 2012My Finder on my iMac keeps freezing when I try to move a folder or file, or when I try to empty the trash can. I have tried to Force Quit Finder, but when I do it does not start back up and I have to manually turn the computer off with the power button.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iPhoto 11
OS X V10.7 Lion :: IMac 2011 Freezes During Games And Video
May 4, 2012So, for the last two months my iMac (27", 2,7 GHz, mid 2011, 12 GB RAM, AMD Raderon HD 6770M 512MB, running OSX Lion 10.7.3) has started to freeze during games and from time to time during youtube videos or VLC. A reboot is required, but the problem usually comes back within 5 minutes or so.Â
The game I play is usually StarCraft 2, which worked fine for about 6 months before the freezes started. Most of the time the computer just freezes but sometimes the right side of the screen is moved to the left side and the left to the right. Then the freeze occurs, the screen turns grey with small vertical stripes on it. Graphics hardware problem?Â
No swaps of the screen occurs during the freezes when watching video but everything else is pretty much the same. After a few freezes the iMac refuses to reboot for a couple of hours.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Upgraded To Lion - IMac Crashing / Freezing
May 24, 2012I 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)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Imac Keep Crashing And Freezing Up When Open Browsers And Program?
Jun 10, 2012I 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)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: 10.7.3 - Late 2011 IMac - Update Broke Returning From Sleep?
Feb 2, 2012Installed the update and what wasn't a problem is now a problem. The computer will not connect to wifi without me telling it to after coming out of sleep. Was not an issue with 10.7.2.
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Feb 26, 2012My Mid 2011 iMac 27" i7 will no longer start after the latest EFI update. I decided to perform some system updated on my iMac and after installing 10.7.3, I rechecked and it found the EFI update and one other update. They were both pretty small (the largest was 3.6MB), so I decided to proceed prior to getting back to business with my system. After downloading the updates (took about 5 seconds), the machine proceeded to restart. There was a loud beep prior to the system restart chime after which it went to the grey-white apple startup screen with the spinning wheel. And it stayed there. After 35 minutes with no discernable progress, I decided something must be wrong. This system normally takes about 30 seconds to boot from a cold state (it's running on an OWC SSD) or maybe a minute after updates. So I held the power button to reboot. But it keeps going to the same state. I tried to reboot to a different internal drive holding the option key, but the same thing happens.Â
System Specs:
iMac 27" i7 3.4 Ghz (mid 2011) 12G Ram
Internal 1TB Apple HD
Internal OWC SSD 240G (main startup drive)Â
1. How do I recover from this?
2. Is anyone else running into this problem?
3. How long do the EFI updates normally take?
4. Shouldn't there be some sort of "progress bar" to indicate something is going on during this process? Or, if not, then perhaps a "WARNING!! This process will take up to two hours, during which you will receive no discernable feedback. Do not interrupt the process until more than 24 hours have passed with the spinning ball."Â Â
P.S. I think this is my last iMac EFI update. After my last iMac received an EFI update (2009 model 24" iMac), it became ultra-flakey and started corrupting HD's. It never worked the same after that. This machine was working PERFECTLY before the update.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Install A SSD Hard Drive On A 2011 IMac Without Voiding The Warranty?
Mar 14, 2012I purchased an iMac last October and my line of work demands extensive use of After Effects and Final Cut Pro. My iMac is fitted with the standard 1TB SATA hard drive, and lately I considered installing an SSD drive as I have been experiencing lags. In all my naivete I asked Apple Store/Service outlet where I originally bought my iMac, but they turned me down, claiming that "they are not allowed to order the extra parts and if they do proceed then my warranty will be void". Which means that about 2 years of AppleCare will go out of the window. I can always do it myself, but at the risk of damaging my iMac and facing a null warranty on top of it. I am still reeling in disbelief, is it really the case that Apple prohibits its customers from legitimately upgrading their computer at their own stores?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Excel And Word 2011 Hang On Saving On IMac But Are Fine On Macbook Air
Feb 7, 2012I am running Lion 10.7.3 on a 2.8GHz CoreDuo iMac from 2007 and on a Macbok Air 2.13 GHz Core duo from 2010. The iMac has 4GB of RAM the Macbook has 2 GB RAM.Â
I run Microsoft Office 2011 on both machines. For the same file the Macbook operates normally on Word and Excel. The iMac is slow at best and when I try a Save As it hangs for up to 15 minutes brfor letting me change the FIle Name. This effectively makes it unusable.Â
As far as I can tell the set up of Office on both Machines is identical and I have eliminated duplicate Fonts as suggested by some posts but the problem remains. I have checked Activity Monitor and I am not getting any Page Outs so RAM does not appear to be an issue.
Mac Mini :: Connecting A 2011 Mini To A 2011 IMac Via Thunderbold To Use IMacs Display
Jun 16, 2012I've just ordered an i5 Mac Mini and while it's destined to be used as a media-centre/ streamer connected to my TV via HDMI, initially I want to hook it up to the display on my 2011 iMac. Can one of you clever bods point me in the direction of what cable I need, and also what do I need to do to the iMac to make it behave as just a monitor? Is it just a matter of plugging in the cables and off I go?
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Nov 15, 2009I just installed Windows 7 on my 27" i5 iMac, and it was working fine until just now. It froze completely (I could move the mouse around) for a minute, and then it unfroze.
I kept using it, and then it froze again, but this time I had to restart by holding down the power button. It just happened again, and I had to restart again.
The only thing I have running is Chrome, and this is a fresh install. What's going on?
My 24 In IMac Keeps Freezing And Is Hot
Feb 28, 2012I am getting very frustrated. I just upgraded my hard drive to a seagate 1tb hard drive and since I've done that I upgraded to lion and now my computer freezes all the time. I don't have the start up disk since I upgraded online. What can I do?
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iMac, iOS 5.0.1
OS X V10.7 Lion :: V10.7.3 Lion Running Slow, Freezing And Crashing?
Feb 3, 2012Over 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)
IMac :: Safari 4.1.2 Keeps Freezing?
Nov 14, 2010I am having issues with Safari freezing on my mac. I am running Safari 4.1.2 and running operating system 10.4.11. I am not sure if this is correct but i managed to sample the page by going on the Activity monitor.
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Mar 30, 2012i got from My Aunt an Old iMac G5 (Not Intel ), befasse she Knows that i ' m Fanboy ;). Now this beautiful machine ist Too low, that why i want to use the Monitor for My MacBook pro 2011. Can i do it ? Is there Software? How can i make it.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
IMac :: Started Freezing Randomly ?
Dec 8, 2010I purchased a 24" iMac in fall of '07 and up until have had no problems at all. Let me describe the problems I'm having now and maybe someone can tell me what to do to remedy them.
A couple weeks ago it started freezing randomly. The mouse will switch to the beach ball and just spins endlessly. I can move it around but can't really do anything other than that. I have to do a hard reset to get it back to normal. Sometimes a couple programs are open, and sometimes none. It seems like it happens often when I quick switch from one user to another. It will switch, work for awhile, then freeze.
Now, no big deal, annoying, but whatever. But, the other day after doing a hard reset it revolted into a white screen with a flashing folder with a question mark. I did some research and found that I needed to repair the startup disc using the snow leopard disc. I did that and it allowed me to boot it back up normaly but didn't really solve the freeze up issue.
So, that just happened again, so I'll have to boot it up with the disc again and repair the startup disc when I get a chance. It's really beyond frustrating now.
I have repaired all permissions, updated all firmware, made sure the drive isn't full, pretty much everything short of backing up and wiping the drive and reinstalling the OS. Is that what I need ro do now? I mean, I know I need to, but is there something I can do to remedy until I can get around to doing that?
PowerPC :: IMac G3 233 Ghz Freezing When Trying To Install OS
Jul 21, 2006I have an old iMac Rev A (or B?) and it is constantly freezing. It freezes in OS 8, 9, and 10.3.. but most frustrating is that it also freezes while trying to install an OS. So right now it does not have an OS installed because of that. It will not boot up to my OS 9.1 disc.. but it will boot up to it's original 8.5 disc and a 10.3 disc.. However it always freezes near the beginning of the install process (often before it even writes to the HDD). I tried taking out the old RAM and leaving it with just the one (new) 256MB chip and that didn't work.
It was freezing before with only the old RAM so. I guess it's not the RAM. I have an identical iMac that doesn't choke on anything (never freezes) and it only has 96MB of RAM. I don't know what else I can do. I'm trying to use XPostFacto to put 10.4 on this thing (it's possible, I want to try it out at least) but it won't get through the first OS install and if it does, it won't get through the second (10.4). Even more frustrating is that I don't have any diagnostic software such as the Apple Hardware Test because the original iMac didn't come with any.
Applications :: IMac Freezing With ITunes?
Oct 18, 2008Is anyone else having the problem with iTunes 8 where your iMac freezes completely (only the mouse will move but you can't click anything)? I started having this problem after upgrading to 10.5.5 and iTunes 8.0.1.
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IMac :: Freezing To Blank Screen?
Jul 3, 2010I need your opinions; since the 10.6.3 update my iMac has begun to freeze to a blank screen. I think this may be a sign of a dying logic board, however I question this as I don't have the freezing problem with 10.6.2. Picture of blank screen attached.
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Mar 22, 2012I recently restarted my iMac G5 as I had not restarted it in a few days and now when I attempt to turn the computer back on it never makes it past the gray "OS X" screen, where I guess it loads the operating system? The system never freezes and I can move the cursor but it will not boot past and eventually goes to sleep. It is the 17" iMac G5 PPC.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.6)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Why Does IMac Keep Freezing
May 8, 2012For some reason my iMac has started to freeze everytime it goes into screen saver mode... I have to turn the computer off to reset everthing. This error message then popps up:Â
Interval Since Last Panic Report:Â 8270 sec
Panics Since Last Report:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2
Anonymous UUID:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 300F47A0-F640-4693-97D3-CA4652D19A36Â Â
Tue May 8 10:02:26 2012
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X Mavericks :: IMac Freezing Up Randomly
Jun 2, 2014Why my iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) has suddenly began randomly freezing up?All working great since I got it but recently I am having a consistent problem with it ceasing up. As a result I took action and restored it to factory defaults over the weekend thinking this would resolve the problem but unforuantely after 2 days without issue the problem has re-surfaced.Â
EtreCheck version: 1.9.11 (43) - report generated 2 June 2014 20:53:38
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iMac - model: iMac12,2         1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores         12 GB RAMÂ
Video Information:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 512 MBÂ
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
27' IMac (2011) Screen Turns Off
Jun 27, 2012This has been going on for me for the past few months on and off, it just randomly switches the screen off but everything else works perfectly, for example if im watching a video on hulu i can still hear the sound, if im doing work on word the documents are still there, iv finally gotten video footage of it. url...To turn it back on i press "ctrl + shift + eject" and then move the mouse. i have contacted Apple support on the phone they did say bring it in, just need to make an appointment. If anyone else has this problem and knows a better solution than having to keep pressing buttons to turn the screen back on please share.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5
IMac :: Getting Kernel Panics - Freezing / Locking
Jul 14, 2009Our 1st gen 24" iMac was giving us Kernel Panics under Tiger 10.4.11 recently it all started two months ago. We took it into the Apple store for a Cleaning and fresh install of Leopard.
When we received it back it locked/froze up immediately, forcing a hard restart. When I called the store they said one of my sticks of ram was not techinically bad but still suspect. This is what I did after that call.
1. Checked the ram physically (the Apple store had placed my 512mb Apple ram stick in slot 0) which I thought very strange.
2. I corrected the ram, meaning I put the 2gb (suspect) stick in slot 0 and the 512 Apple ram in slot 1. Things were better it would take 10-15 minutes of use before locking up not 1-2 minutes.
3. I placed a new stick of Crucial (2gb from OWC) in place of the supect stick. that has had ZERO affect, our mac still freezes.
4. I pulled out the 512mb Apple (Micron) ram and replaced it with a 1gb Micron stick from OWC and that gives us roughly 20-40 minutes of time befroe freezing.
The software is up to date, I've max'd out the ram (new ram per Apple's request) and all we have running is iTunes in the background to stream to AppleTV and a few tabs of Safari open when this locks up. Right before it freezes we notice lines arcoss the application windows almost as though there a distorted pixels. When we took it in (running Tiger) the Apple Tech did check the drive and boot from their network and said our HD was not the issue, but it wasn't up long enough to cause kernel panic.
OS X :: Using IMac - ATI Graphics Glitches, Freezing, DVD-Rom Unusable USB
Aug 12, 2009I have some serious problems with my iMac that I've been experiencing for a long time now, but they're really getting on my nerves now!
I have a 2006 20" iMac (the last revision of the white ones before the aluminum redesign), 2.16 GHz, 2 GB ram, 250 gig hard, 128MB ATI X1600 Mobility.
