Mac wont wake up, also menu bar frozen acts busy /frozen time

[Xavieryz]

Hello everyone I have this problem with my mac and I will start by saying I have all Updates on my Imac 24" alum.

This problem started a few days ago. This install is 16months old and running with no problems until now.

in the morning I wake up to a blank screen (normal) however it will not wake up from sleep I have to do a hard reset. If I put the computer into sleep it will wake up when I want it to. So I think it is when its been idle for a few hours or more.

also I noticed that the Menu bar time is frozen and when I move the mouse over the icon I get a busy Icon. I've tried to run Activity monitor, or disk utility while the menu bar is frozen but they are unresponsive and will not load

I turned off sleep last night and woke up to the mac working ok, but I still have the menu bar problems.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks

 

[erichmatt]

Have you tried and SMC reset?

Shutdown the computer and disconnect the power cable for at least 15 seconds. It may fix the sleep issues.

I would try making a new user account to test the menubar issues.

 

[Xavieryz]

so far there hasn't been any issues with a different user account.....now how to I fix my main account