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iMac Aluminium Freezing

I know this is not the first topic about it but I feel so desperate and I hope that with yet another feed back apple might work on this "bug".
I have an iMac 24inch with a 2,8ghz CPU and 4geg of very expensive apple ram.

I called the apple support (france) where we explain me how to flush the PRAM and told me that I should format if I get freezes again.
After an afternoom of basic usage my iMac froze. I re-installed Tiger and after just few minutes after booting on tiger (I did not installed any updates) it froze again...
I even had the feeling that it was close to froze during the installation.

This is a real nightmare, this computer cost me a lot of money and I don't have that much time to lose on how to fix it. If I had the time and liked to do so I would not be an apple fan and would not hate vista.

I made all my relatives switch to intel mac (mother, sister, grand ma) I had nothing to complain about any of those Computers (MB, MBP, iMac White). But when it came to me to go on intel it makes me love my slow G4 CPU.

Where is gone the Apple professionalism ?

I know my post my sound useless and dumb but I'm really disappointed by apple today, I dreamt of this iMac for quite a long time.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 4g of Ram & 1To HD

Posted on Sep 29, 2007 2:48 PM

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PandL

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Nov 15, 2007 9:42 PM in response to Paul Verhelst

Firmware update has fixed my 24# Aluminium Imac. The video card is on order with the local Apple store, but hopefully won't need that.

frmoses

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Nov 16, 2007 8:02 PM in response to PandL

Seems to have fixed our machine too. Oddly enough, after dealing with this issue for over 6 weeks, we finally took the machine in on Thurs to the Apple Store to have it fixed. While at the Genius Bar, after declaring the machine needed a new video card, the Genius decided to run Software Update one last time to update it to 10.4.11 I had run the Update just before coming in to see if there had been any patches, and there weren't. But then, suddenly, here was this new "iMac Graphics Update 1.0" that had been posted while I drove into the Apple Store. We installed it at the Genius Bar, and could not get it to freeze thereafter. So, just moments from it going in for repairs and being without it for 1-2 weeks, it was fixed and home again. Seems good so far, but am holding my breath for the next few weeks of real use, just to make sure....

elmoman

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Nov 17, 2007 3:20 AM in response to 3on

The new firmware update doesn't fixed the Pixel problems on my iMac that you can see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superfrunny/sets/72157603033296521/

After the update and a restart my iMac freezed - what he normaly did not that often - and I after a second restart I had the same pixel glitches as seen before. So no solution for me 😟

My iMac is now in repair to replace the videocard or what ever.

Nov 21, 2007 9:07 AM in response to 3on

My 24" Alu iMac used to freeze often before the firmware update. It has not frozen since i downloaded the update.

nelonmac

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Dec 11, 2007 6:48 AM in response to 3on

Not so happy to join this discussions. My iMac was frozen since i bought it with tiger (less than 2 months), i thoung that installed leopard will fix it but it dosen't. now I just can log in on safe boot (pressing shift key on reboot). I'm moving my files to an external drive and try to see if the apple service can do something.

But everybody here like me are telling our sad histories, but is not any Apple member that can give a solution for this. is bad for apple to have so many disappointed customers.

if some one know a good way to fix it please let we know it. thanks.

by the way, i haved seen that the system keep running even i can't do anything on the screen because i can login with ssh from my macbookpro and from there i can do a **/ sudo shutdown -r now **/ and this restart it, so if just the video that is not working.

Dec 13, 2007 11:07 PM in response to 3on

I'm about to replace my MacBook Pro with a new iMac but obviously I have my doubts. Can anyone give some feedback regarding the firmware update? Did it solve your freezing issues? After reading every post only a couple of people refered to the update effects.

Thanks in advance

iMac Aluminium Freezing