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iMac Software Update 1.1

I am no longer able to change my color profile after the update. When I click on the profiles, it makes the critical stop, beep noise. When I try to calibrate, it says "The factory profile for this display cannot be found".

The iMac color profile is gone too.
 
I mentioned this on another thread. Apple mentioned bug fixes. After the update I went into the iTunes music video store and scrolled up and down which always caused the iTunes to crash the system. Everything works fine now.:)
 
NEiMac said:
It fixed the iTunes freezing problem allot of the iMac where having. The bug was when you go to the tv shows, or movies in iTunes and scrolled up and down it would freeze the hole computer up. It doesnt do it anymore with the fix. What else it fixed I dont know.
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FWIW, mine now locks up when EyeTV is displaying live TV. Sometimes immediately, sometimes a few minutes into a show. Definitely repeatable.

I can still move the mouse around, but all OS X does is beachball. The Force-Quit hotkeys don't work. I have to reboot to recover.

Yay. My first OS X issue since I switched 2 years ago. Does calling AppleCare about this do any good (i.e. to report the issue)?
 
yeah, it seems i am having more crashes than before. 1 crash happened 30 seconds after a reboot when i right clicked something on the dock. screen artifacts, i guess they are called that, appear after coming back from sleep. i'm glad they fixed the itunes thing. overall i wish i hadn't installed this update.

being a mac owner for only 1 month, i thought this system was more stable than windows, especially since the os has been out for so long, but that does not seem to be the case for me.
 
I haven't had any crashes as of yet. All I can say is to make sure that your permissions are clean, keychain first aid, and colorsync repairs. Last is try onyx to clean things out.
 
I haven't had any crashing or even heard about it yet. Is there any common traits that all of your iMacs share. My 2.8ghz hasn't "crashed" since I got it. Do you mean the whole OS is restarting or freezing or is it just Applications unexpectedly quitting?
 
RRK said:
I haven't had any crashing or even heard about it yet. Is there any common traits that all of your iMacs share. My 2.8ghz hasn't "crashed" since I got it. Do you mean the whole OS is restarting or freezing or is it just Applications unexpectedly quitting?
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Same here ... apps yes, but OS no.
 
RRK said:
I haven't had any crashing or even heard about it yet. Is there any common traits that all of your iMacs share. My 2.8ghz hasn't "crashed" since I got it. Do you mean the whole OS is restarting or freezing or is it just Applications unexpectedly quitting?
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For me, the only problem I have is when EyeTV starts running. At some point after that, my mouse remains fine, but everything else is locked up. Nothing I click on does anything, nor do any keyboard shortcuts (like trying to bring up the Dashboard or Force Close window, or even CMD-TAB to try to cycle through the programs). Turning the iMac off is the only way out.

Without EyeTV running, my iMac is just as solid before.
 
barefeats said:
The real news here is that AMD has confirmed to me that this Radeon 2xxx driver version/build is NOT optimized for performance. It is a bug fix release.

My testing is only meant to confirm that.
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Thanks for the useful insights you have been providing lately, barefeats.

Love your site, BTW.
 
RRK said:
I haven't had any crashing or even heard about it yet. Is there any common traits that all of your iMacs share. My 2.8ghz hasn't "crashed" since I got it. Do you mean the whole OS is restarting or freezing or is it just Applications unexpectedly quitting?
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My 2.8 has never crashed until this software update. The whole OS is freezing, and theres nothing to do about it but hold the power button. Is there any way to remove a software update?
 
jwp333 said:
Ran the update on my 20 inch. The old iMac profile is gone from my list of color profiles in display preferences. There is now a "color LCD" profile, which mine started up with. A little lighter than 2.2 gamma, 6500 white point. Looks pretty good to me. Still not good enough for the "pros" out there? Surprised that I'm the first to comment on this.
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I updated mine yesterday as well and the old profile was still there and there was no new profile for "color LCD." There is just the same old iMac profile and a bunch of other useless Adobe stuff from 1998.

Does this "color LCD" profile show up when you tick-off "Show profiles for this machine only"? Maybe it's just an old profile from when you had a different monitor connected to your old machine that you hadn't noticed before?

Sadly, no profiles and no calibration is going to alter the main source of the "washed-out icon problem" which is that this screen has a strong gradient from top to bottom. If I paid for this thing myself (I got it as part of my job instead), I would be taking it back to the Apple store. It's hard to see how any new drivers, profiles or any kind of software fix is going to affect this base problem with the screen.
 
Now am having freezes and screen artifacts, especially when using the dock. Can still move the mouse around, but all apps are unresponsive.

Grrrr.
 
What are peoples opinions on these problems so far? Like the locking up and screen artifacts?
I do start to wonder if shoddy graphics hardware is trying to be masked by software patches. Many new iMac orders are reported as delayed now, which makes me think Apple are looking into hardware issues before sending them on.

All I discovered so far by looking in the system logs, is what appears to be a ton of graphics related memory addresses get thrown up (Theres hundreds per freeze, but if anyone is interested, i'll post a short section of them). This along with the screen artifatcs suggests graphics ram contents corruption. Im no techy, but thats how it appears to me. However I guess software as well as hardware faults could cause this.

Thoughts?
 
Re: Color Profile change for 20" only?

I think that the new "Color LCD" profile may be for 20"iMacs only. We were the ones with the big complaints about the iMac profile.
 
I was having the problems of crashing, especially when viewing the tv shows on iTunes. I haven't had those problems at all since the update. No crashes, no freezes (all of which were happening before).

I don't know if it is coincidence or not. (I have the 24" 2.8GHz if that is of interest).
 
Marble said:
Now am having freezes and screen artifacts, especially when using the dock. Can still move the mouse around, but all apps are unresponsive.

Grrrr.
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I had the same thing happen, everything froze, couldn't force quit. After a few seconds mouse moved but couldn't click anything as if apps were unresponsive. Finally I decided to shutdown bluetooth mouse by sliding the cover underneath, then turned it back on, iMac came back to life and I was able to use mouse again.

I think the unresponsiveness is due to the mouse losing the click ability. Rebooted and no problems so far.
 
maestrokev said:
I had the same thing happen, everything froze, shouldn't force quit. After a few seconds mouse moved but couldn't click anything as if apps were unresponsive. Finally I decided to shutdown bluetooth mouse by sliding the cover underneath, then turned it back on, iMac came back to life and I was able to use mouse again.

I think the unresponsiveness is due to the mouse losing the click ability. Rebooted and no problems so far.
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interesting. next time mine freezes i will try disconnecting it from the usb. although i have tried connecting the mighty mouse in while my other mouse was plugged in and still could not get it to work.
 
Crashes

pavelbure said:
yeah, it seems i am having more crashes than before. 1 crash happened 30 seconds after a reboot when i right clicked something on the dock. screen artifacts, i guess they are called that, appear after coming back from sleep. i'm glad they fixed the itunes thing. overall i wish i hadn't installed this update.

being a mac owner for only 1 month, i thought this system was more stable than windows, especially since the os has been out for so long, but that does not seem to be the case for me.
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Constant crashes is not the norm on a MAC. What software have you installed? Have you verified and repaired permissions on any installs or upgrades? Did you install 3 party RAM?

Any or all of the above could be your problem. Have had OS X on my MAC since day 1 and have never had a crash! (Spinning beach balls, yes!)
 
For those that have as many problems with the update like I did, here is a way to restore your old driver. I guarantee for nothing.
Download the 1.0 update from: http://www.fileavenue.net/index.php?action=categories&cat=1&pl=mac
Download Pacifist if you do not yet have it installed: http://www.charlessoft.com/
Drag the update package onto pacifist. Select the root named: Contents of iMacSoftwareUpdate1.0.pkg. Press install.
It will override all files that have been updated with 1.1.
Since then I did not have any further trouble.
 
DesignerOnMac said:
Constant crashes is not the norm on a MAC. What software have you installed? Have you verified and repaired permissions on any installs or upgrades? Did you install 3 party RAM?

Any or all of the above could be your problem. Have had OS X on my MAC since day 1 and have never had a crash! (Spinning beach balls, yes!)
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These problems are not "his/her" problem. They are happening on a lot of people's alum iMacs.

Even in Applediscussions there are a bunch of posts regarding more and more frequent crashes after the 1.1 update.
 
can someone tell me how to check which driver i have installed for my video card ? also, if you installed version 1.1 tell me what version number you have. i want to see if what i tried worked out.
 
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