system lockups

[FortWorthMac]

Hello.

Something has happened/changed on my iMac whereby my system locks up so tight that I cannot force quit anything, or do anything else to the system. My only option is to manually reboot.

This started last week and I thought I had removed/uninstalled the offending program (iStat Menu) but tonight my system did it again.

Any good place to start to keep/start troubleshooting?

What would happen if I did a time machine restore?

I know its kinda a vague question but I'm getting frustrated.

Thanks
David

 

[guydude193]

First Aid in Disk Utility would be your best bet before you try an Archive and Install, or something of the like.

 

[FortWorthMac]

First Aid in Disk Utility would be your best bet before you try an Archive and Install, or something of the like.

Just did that, no problems found......

 

[FortWorthMac]

Windows has/had a log file one could refer to when trying to diagnose system problems. Does OS X?

 

[KoolStar]

Did you try repairing disk permission?

 

[FortWorthMac]

Did you try repairing disk permission?

Nope, but doing it now......