So here's the story...
Several weeks ago while preforming an auto update, my mother's iMac (2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo--all original hardware), the update downloaded, but when installing it stalled. I had to shut the iMac off but it would not reboot--blue screen. I posted a "help me" post in this forum and followed the instructions to clone one of my macbook's HD and then boot the computer from that external HD to pull the information off before reinstalling the OSX.
Done.
The OSX was installed, updated (verifying and repairing the disk between each download of updates) and all of the information was put back onto the iMac. Everything worked fine for several days until my mother denied the keychain multiple times for requests--she didn't know what was going on. As soon as she denied the keychain, the iMac started preforming very slow. What would take you 3 seconds would take you 1 minute or more.
Everything was still on the external HD's so I decided just to do it all over again since I am not experienced enough to fool around with the keychain.
So the OSX was reinstalled along with all of her information.
Again, the computer worked perfect and all of a sudden, while my mother was on Facebook, it started acting, again, very slow. No keychain pop ups, nothing, just all of a sudden acting very slow.
I tried booting from the OSX disk (Leopard--Snow Leopard is on the way...) and trying the disk utility to fix the problem, but it just stalls and stops at 23 hours to verify the disk permissions... I rebooted from the external bootable HD and made sure everything is off, which it is, so I'm ready to go for round 3 of reinstalling the OSX, but this whole deal is getting old and obviously something else is the problem...
I'm beginning to think that this might be a hardware problem instead of a software problem? While investigating, one review says to do a "fdisk" check, or possible that the battery on the motherboard needs to be changed or something about holding the battery down for 4 seconds or something like that. Bad HD? Trojan? I really have no idea whatsoever...
This is the first problem I've experienced with my macs in six years since I've switched so if you have any ideas or thoughts, give me some detailed instructions or links since I'm a complete newbie fixing anything on a mac
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Several weeks ago while preforming an auto update, my mother's iMac (2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo--all original hardware), the update downloaded, but when installing it stalled. I had to shut the iMac off but it would not reboot--blue screen. I posted a "help me" post in this forum and followed the instructions to clone one of my macbook's HD and then boot the computer from that external HD to pull the information off before reinstalling the OSX.
Done.
The OSX was installed, updated (verifying and repairing the disk between each download of updates) and all of the information was put back onto the iMac. Everything worked fine for several days until my mother denied the keychain multiple times for requests--she didn't know what was going on. As soon as she denied the keychain, the iMac started preforming very slow. What would take you 3 seconds would take you 1 minute or more.
Everything was still on the external HD's so I decided just to do it all over again since I am not experienced enough to fool around with the keychain.
So the OSX was reinstalled along with all of her information.
Again, the computer worked perfect and all of a sudden, while my mother was on Facebook, it started acting, again, very slow. No keychain pop ups, nothing, just all of a sudden acting very slow.
I tried booting from the OSX disk (Leopard--Snow Leopard is on the way...) and trying the disk utility to fix the problem, but it just stalls and stops at 23 hours to verify the disk permissions... I rebooted from the external bootable HD and made sure everything is off, which it is, so I'm ready to go for round 3 of reinstalling the OSX, but this whole deal is getting old and obviously something else is the problem...
I'm beginning to think that this might be a hardware problem instead of a software problem? While investigating, one review says to do a "fdisk" check, or possible that the battery on the motherboard needs to be changed or something about holding the battery down for 4 seconds or something like that. Bad HD? Trojan? I really have no idea whatsoever...
This is the first problem I've experienced with my macs in six years since I've switched so if you have any ideas or thoughts, give me some detailed instructions or links since I'm a complete newbie fixing anything on a mac
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!