IStat Menu Crashes my Mac?

[kissmo]

I have an iMac mid 2011. replaced the HDD with Samsung Evo 840 and removed the DVD and replaced with an OptiBay with an OCZ Vertex 4
After installing Yosemite and updating istat menu my iMac started to do sudden shutdowns or restarts. I am also using HDD fan control to fix the fan speed on the main SSD.

Everything worked nice under Yosemite beta but now I am seeing this issue.

I tried resetting the PRam and the SMC and nothing.
This issue replicates very random.

I checked the RAM errors with AHT and there is no issue there.

I uninstalled iStat menu and everything works fine for now but I was wondering if anyone has similar issues.

I googled this issue and I've seen similar reports on Mavericks but to me it started with Yosemite and iStat menu.
Maybe it is a coincidence ... I don't know..

 

[h9826790]

No issue on my Mac. Anyway, which version you installed. 5.03?

 

[kissmo]

No issue on my Mac. Anyway, which version you installed. 5.03?

Started with 5.02 and then updated to 5.03
It may be something else. It can be a coincidence.
Maybe something is getting broken on my iMac.... I hope not....

Could be the SMC...

I wanted to see if this happens to others too...

My next move is to do a clean install of Yosemite and Pray to God it will be fine.

I hate these things - I lost a MBP 17 inch 2011 to a faulty GPU which funnily happened after Mavericks was released.

I don't want to loose the my iMac after Yosemite is released.

 

[johannnn]

http://bjango.com/contact/ why ask here and not ask the creators?

 

[kissmo]

http://bjango.com/contact/ why ask here and not ask the creators?

I will do that - after I do some more testing to see if a clean install and running without iStat Menu will repeat the error.

Then, I will submit feedback there and ask for help.

My intention was to ask anyone if they have similar issue.

 

[maflynn]

When I install Yosemite, it gave me a warning that iStat Menus is incompatible to Yosemite. Perhaps its the version I'm on, but clearly 10.10 didn't like the fact I was using the app. I'd look at the bjango site to see if there's any new versions.

 

[h9826790]

For your info, both 5.02 and 5.03 works well under Yosemite on my Mac Pro.

 

[theSeb]

When I install Yosemite, it gave me a warning that iStat Menus is incompatible to Yosemite. Perhaps its the version I'm on, but clearly 10.10 didn't like the fact I was using the app. I'd look at the bjango site to see if there's any new versions.

I am on version 4.22 still. I didn't get any warnings on the rMBP, or the nMP, and it works on both without any issues.

 

[kissmo]

For your info, both 5.02 and 5.03 works well under Yosemite on my Mac Pro.

Well it worked well on my iMac too and I never got any warnings or anything.

I usually set the fans a little bit higher than default because of the issues iMac Mid 2011 have with GPU and I want to have it as cool as possible.

It started all of a sudden: I worked on the iMac and in the middle of everything it reboots.
When it reboots for like a few seconds there is a flicker on the screen - which somehow prompts me to believe there might be an issue with the display panel or the GPU card.

Nevertheless - I haven't had this experience while on Betas until the final Yosemite shipped and i updated iStat to version 5.02.

Then it started.
Again - this may be a HW issue - so I need to run some more tests.

Thanks!