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Hello everyone,
This past Sunday I took the plunge and bought a brand new iMac intel Core 2 Duo with a 250 GB HDD and 1 GB of RAM. I bought this iMac at a local Bestbuy here in Jersey. I brought it home, and set it up with my SAMSUNG 1080p 22" monitor, Apple bluetooth Keyboard and mightymouse, and a Western Digital 350 GB HDD hooked up via USB. I was excited to finally jump on the intel-based Mac bandwagon, as well as experience dual monitors for the first time.
That was Sunday. Tuesday evening I was watching "Rome" on itunes on my Samsung monitor while surfing the web with Omniweb on the iMac monitor. Out of nowhere, everything locked up. I was able to move my cursor, but nothing responeded to my clicking. I hard booted the system and loaded everything I had going again, and sure enough, it locked up a few moments later. I ran system update, updated everything, then restarted. Time went by and although not immediatly, later that night it froze up on me again.
Fast forward to last nite, and the freezing reached and all time high. 5 times. Each time was when I had a browser open in my iMac window and I had Quicktime playing in my Samsung monitor. I was watching a UFC fight card, with the player fit to the screen.
I have read many posts about iMacs freezing late last year, but there was a firmware update that evidently fixed that. I have this update installed, and I have had no luck. I even called Apple Care where I got instructed to unplug everything, plug it back in, start in safe mode, delete cache. Guess what? That didn't help me out at all. If anyone can diagnose my situation, and reccomend what I need to do next, I would appreciate it greatly!
P.S.> Am I right in suspecting I have a faulty Video card? I just ordered 4GB of RAM from OWC, could this be a RAM issue?
This past Sunday I took the plunge and bought a brand new iMac intel Core 2 Duo with a 250 GB HDD and 1 GB of RAM. I bought this iMac at a local Bestbuy here in Jersey. I brought it home, and set it up with my SAMSUNG 1080p 22" monitor, Apple bluetooth Keyboard and mightymouse, and a Western Digital 350 GB HDD hooked up via USB. I was excited to finally jump on the intel-based Mac bandwagon, as well as experience dual monitors for the first time.
That was Sunday. Tuesday evening I was watching "Rome" on itunes on my Samsung monitor while surfing the web with Omniweb on the iMac monitor. Out of nowhere, everything locked up. I was able to move my cursor, but nothing responeded to my clicking. I hard booted the system and loaded everything I had going again, and sure enough, it locked up a few moments later. I ran system update, updated everything, then restarted. Time went by and although not immediatly, later that night it froze up on me again.
Fast forward to last nite, and the freezing reached and all time high. 5 times. Each time was when I had a browser open in my iMac window and I had Quicktime playing in my Samsung monitor. I was watching a UFC fight card, with the player fit to the screen.
I have read many posts about iMacs freezing late last year, but there was a firmware update that evidently fixed that. I have this update installed, and I have had no luck. I even called Apple Care where I got instructed to unplug everything, plug it back in, start in safe mode, delete cache. Guess what? That didn't help me out at all. If anyone can diagnose my situation, and reccomend what I need to do next, I would appreciate it greatly!
P.S.> Am I right in suspecting I have a faulty Video card? I just ordered 4GB of RAM from OWC, could this be a RAM issue?