My iMac has been driving me crazy for the past few days. It all started with a crashed harddisk late sunday. I bought a new disk (1TB Seagate Barracuda) and installed it in the imac myself, following the great guide on ifixit.com.
I then ran the snow leopard installer and wanted to restore from my time machine backup which had ran on sunday still. This seemed to work fine until the machine rebooted at the end of the restore process and gave me the "you need to power off your machine" in 8 languages screen. This happened over and over so I decided to do a clean install and the restore later using Migration Assistant.
The clean install went fine. Everything loaded nice and all was fine. Then Migration Assistant let me down by not being able to find my Time machine backup (even though the disk shows up fine on the desktop). After plenty of fiddling I decided to restore from my Mozy.com account, which with 250GB of data was going to take forever, but would at least work. The Mozy restore then stalled sometime last night after about 4 GB of data (I was restoring in portions). Ugh....
This this morning I noticed that none of the animations in OSX seem to work anymore... Specifically any of the "mouse-over" animations, ie. dock maginication, highlighting in menus, etc. I was running the latest version of 10.6 and had all the updates done. Did a restart, no help. I decided not to deal with it and do yet another clean install. To my surprise, though, this hasn't helped. What the heck is going on?!?!?! I really don't feel like spending every single free hour of my week trying to get this thing to work...
Could it be a hardware problem after all?
The machine is an iMac 24" 3.06Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM. Bought it last year around july, so its just out of warranty, and I don't have Applecare.
Any help would be appreciated!
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Guess this was quite a difficult one... as it turns out my trusty Logitech MX1000 mouse is on the blink.... I hooked up regular old corded mouse and everything works fine. Guess the fresh install was unnecessary, but I'm glad this is solved!
I then ran the snow leopard installer and wanted to restore from my time machine backup which had ran on sunday still. This seemed to work fine until the machine rebooted at the end of the restore process and gave me the "you need to power off your machine" in 8 languages screen. This happened over and over so I decided to do a clean install and the restore later using Migration Assistant.
The clean install went fine. Everything loaded nice and all was fine. Then Migration Assistant let me down by not being able to find my Time machine backup (even though the disk shows up fine on the desktop). After plenty of fiddling I decided to restore from my Mozy.com account, which with 250GB of data was going to take forever, but would at least work. The Mozy restore then stalled sometime last night after about 4 GB of data (I was restoring in portions). Ugh....
This this morning I noticed that none of the animations in OSX seem to work anymore... Specifically any of the "mouse-over" animations, ie. dock maginication, highlighting in menus, etc. I was running the latest version of 10.6 and had all the updates done. Did a restart, no help. I decided not to deal with it and do yet another clean install. To my surprise, though, this hasn't helped. What the heck is going on?!?!?! I really don't feel like spending every single free hour of my week trying to get this thing to work...
Could it be a hardware problem after all?
The machine is an iMac 24" 3.06Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM. Bought it last year around july, so its just out of warranty, and I don't have Applecare.
Any help would be appreciated!
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Guess this was quite a difficult one... as it turns out my trusty Logitech MX1000 mouse is on the blink.... I hooked up regular old corded mouse and everything works fine. Guess the fresh install was unnecessary, but I'm glad this is solved!