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roopa · roopa #1 (**permalink**)

04-30-2012, 08:52 AM

Hi there.

So I'm not a techie or anything and was wondering if anyone out there has any ideas as to whats wrong with my imac.

It currently has OS X Lion and bought my imac about 8-9 months ago.

For the last few weeks when I turn the mac on, it sometimes (not always) takes longer to load, and goes to the grey login screen (which as I thought should only come up if it has updated something? - its not set to do that everytime).

Then I notice one or two glitches either with audio, video or wifi and it won't recover these functions until I restart.

Is this common or is it a bug?

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #2 (**permalink**)

05-01-2012, 12:39 AM

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Try Lion Recovery and check out the hard drive for starters.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

In the Mac OS X Utilities select Disk utility and run Repair Disk and see what is reported.

harryb2448 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 28, 2007 Location: Nambucca Heads Australia Posts: 14,103 Mac Specs: iMac i5 2.7GHz OS X.8.3	05-01-2012, 12:39 AM G'day and welcome to the forums. Try Lion Recovery and check out the hard drive for starters. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 In the Mac OS X Utilities select Disk utility and run Repair Disk and see what is reported. *Hang on to those original install discs like grim death! Using OS X.7 or later make a bootable USB thumb drive before running Installer!*
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Member Since: Apr 30, 2012 Posts: 1	04-30-2012, 08:52 AM Hi there. So I'm not a techie or anything and was wondering if anyone out there has any ideas as to whats wrong with my imac. It currently has OS X Lion and bought my imac about 8-9 months ago. For the last few weeks when I turn the mac on, it sometimes (not always) takes longer to load, and goes to the grey login screen (which as I thought should only come up if it has updated something? - its not set to do that everytime). Then I notice one or two glitches either with audio, video or wifi and it won't recover these functions until I restart. Is this common or is it a bug?
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