My new iMac 21"i3 machine stays warm when asleep !

[pedropete]

I wondered why this might be happening as my 2 other iMac 27's stay stone cold.
Like most people I never switch them off as something is always downloading, and they automatically go to sleep etc

So - what may be causing this warmth - anyone ?

 

[pedropete]

This is getting odder.
Last night the machine had gone into sleep mode while I was watching TV - for some reason, it came into Life - and the casing was very warm/hot.
So I unplugged it.
Any ideas out there - No.2 ?!?

 

[pedropete]

OK - so far a big blank drawn from the Boffins on here..

I used Onyx and it informs me that my Mackintosh HD is in need of repair, and I should load original Leopard Install Disc and use Disk Utility to repair it.
I have done this but, not having done this before, I don't know how to proceed.
Any idiot-guide instructions from anyone please ??

 

[Chris_B]

Do you have an external hard drive? You could use the Migration Assistant to copy your personal data, files and applications onto that then clean install the OS and copy your data back over again from the external drive.

Clean install, whilst in OSX pop in the Leopard Install Disc and shut down.
When off, hold 'C' and power on - await the CD to boot.
Follow the setup, when you have the option open the Disk Utility, select the HD and Erase.
Continue with the install.

Hope this helps.

 

[bobtomay]

For the boffins

 

[zarathu]

For the boffins

How did you do that neat thing with Google? How many times I would want to do that for people who apparently never heard of google. And how many times I appear to be a mac store genious because I know how to type a question in google.

 

[zarathu]

I wondered why this might be happening as my 2 other iMac 27's stay stone cold.
Like most people I never switch them off as something is always downloading, and they automatically go to sleep etc

So - what may be causing this warmth - anyone ?

If its staying warm, then only the screen is turning off. Its not really asleep, its just pretending to be asleep. Does it do this when you actually shut it down?

 

[Chris_B]

How did you do that neat thing with Google? How many times I would want to do that for people who apparently never heard of google. And how many times I appear to be a mac store genious because I know how to type a question in google.

Let me google that for you

 

[pedropete]

Do you have an external hard drive? You could use the Migration Assistant to copy your personal data, files and applications onto that then clean install the OS and copy your data back over again from the external drive.

Clean install, whilst in OSX pop in the Leopard Install Disc and shut down.
When off, hold 'C' and power on - await the CD to boot.
Follow the setup, when you have the option open the Disk Utility, select the HD and Erase.
Continue with the install.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestions !
I have already copied all my files to an external hard drive and tried to use the Migration Assistant - but as it took an infinite time to calculate the size of my file transfers - I unchecked this box and just did it manually plus Applications.
When I tried to re-install Snow Leopard from the OSX Disk - it wouldn't let me !
So - am trying your suggestion above.
Still don't know why it wouldn't allow me to do a 'Repair' on Disk Utility !

When you buy a new Mac - is the OSX Disk useable on other Macs ? Surely it should be ?
I ask this as I have 3 other iMacs and a Mac Power Book, which all came with their own 2 Disks - and when I rebooted the machine refuses to accept my password - even though I have typed it in exactly !
I hadn't erased anything either and just get this weird start-up screen - this is crazy !!
Have now shut it down - and will wait at least an hour before re-trying.

Thinking about it - there were signs that things weren't working properly over the last few months, which I've never experienced with my my other Macs - iTunes wouldn't allow me to back up my Library into a separate Media File as it does on the others, and, unless I made copies to my external hard drive of all new additions to the iTunes Library, I would find that they had disappeared from iTunes next time I tried to play them !

 

[zarathu]

You can't repair a drive that is your start up drive. Its like the police investigating itself, and oxy-moron.

Dis you restart from your external drive? If the external drive is a USB drive, you may need to use something like SuperDuper to make a bootable copy of the current system on the external drive. Then start from that drive, and run both the Hardware test and the disk utility programs.

You could also make an appointment with an apple store genius or just call Apple since your mac is new. That is probalby a better idea than talking to any of us except for those of us who really are apple repair techs. they know who they are but the rest of us don't.

 

[pedropete]

Thanks - but I am now LOCKED OUT of this iMac !

It won't accept my password which I know to be correct - nor have I actually erased anything !

H E L P !!

Added problem is I live in Spain and my Spanish isn't great - and I had this English language option machine shipped over from Amazon UK - less than 3 months back....

There Must be something I can do to start over surely ?

 

[Head_Unit]

Return it to Amazon.uk, maybe?

If not, somehow, get it to Apple and have them fix it. You could end up wasting huge amounts of time-if the machine is new, that's what warranties are for. Ship it back to England if need be.

 

[pedropete]

Return it to Amazon.uk, maybe?

If not, somehow, get it to Apple and have them fix it. You could end up wasting huge amounts of time-if the machine is new, that's what warranties are for. Ship it back to England if need be.

When I first bought this machine, the keyboard had a dodgy '4' key which would - and will still not work - and the mouse kept using batteries on a weekly basis..
I informed the company which works under Amazon and has glowing customer reviews, and was told 'to take it to the nearest Apple dealer as part of the European / Worldwide Warranty' etc - Which I thought was highly unsatisfactory.
I have just mailed the owner telling him I will be returning the machine with all of it's original packing etc asap - and am awaiting a response.

 

[pedropete]

Could I just repeat a previously unanswered question which might have some bearing here ?
When you receive a new Mac with the 2 Disks of OSX and Applications - are these disks linked to the machine you buy - and so will not work on another Mac ?
Was just wondering whether this might explain why I was getting the message - 'OSX will not install on this machine' ?
I may have used the Disks from my newer iMac 27'

 

[chas_m]

When you receive a new Mac with the 2 Disks of OSX and Applications - are these disks linked to the machine you buy - and so will not work on another Mac ?

That is correct.