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Q: iMac keeps restarting

Wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the iMac (Intel) forum.

 

I am typing this from my work computer (Windows), but my 2012 iMac that I've had for 2 years has worked flawlessly up until recently. A few days ago it started taking forever to display files in finder. I had to keep relaunching, and it would freeze. I tried the workaround that was posted here but that didn't work either. It went away for a few days, but last night it really came back with a vengeance. The relaunch finder trick only showed the current folder, while navigating to other folders would simply show the loading icon forever.

 

 

Also, my iMac was shutdown for over an entire day yesterday, and when I turned it on the " Your computer restarted because of a problem". came up. I've never experienced this problem before, but after 3-4 tries it finally logged in to the Home screen. This is when I noticed the above (finder problems) returning from a few days ago after being absent. The finder issues continued, so I restarted the mac, and it just kept cycling over and over (reboot, try to load, auto-reboot, etc.). Did this for a while so I gave up on it.

 

Is this an issue with the HDD? I did a disk utility check the other day and it said everything was in great shape. This morning however was a nightmare as I have no idea if the mac is going to turn on or not.

 

I will say this never happened in Lion. I switched to Mavericks probably a month or two ago and was going smooth sailing until this past week when the finder issue started and now this reboot issue started.

Posted on Jun 26, 2014 8:03 AM

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