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EssentialParado

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Feb 17, 2005
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After a recent reinstall of OS X, some mornings I'll find my iMac's fan will be at full speed and I can't seem to get into the system, seeing only the spinning beachball after entering my login password. The only thing I can do is a forced shutdown via the power button.

Is there some way I can diagnose which application is causing this? If I could see the Activity Monitor it would be dead easy but because I can't get into the system I can't use that... :confused:
 
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