iMac crashes during sleeep

I am sorry to say my iMac is still acting strangely.

I followed all your advice about disabling sleep, but another problem still persists.

I was going out for a few hours today and decided to shut down my iMac, after 3 hours I returned and decided to start my iMac for some internet browsing.

I pressed the power button on the back of the iMac and nothing at happened, after a minute or two I tried again and still nothing. Finally after about 8 to 9 attempts to start my iMac by pressing the power button, I finally got it started.

I am now concerned there is something seriously wrong with my iMac, I have run the Apple Diagnostics Tool and it reported everything was fine.

I have also contacted Apple's Technical Support and went over everything I have tried to fix this.

The Apple Technical Support stated my remedial measures detailed in a previous post were correctly performed, they were not able to find fault with anything I had done. They conceded that I have exhausted all possible standard self-help measures which fix common iMac issues.

As they were NOT able to help, they simply advised taking my iMac to an Authorized Apple Repairer.

I don't know what to do to fix this and it is now reaching the point where I am afraid to shut my iMac down as I am worried I will not be able to get it started again.

I feel as though my iMac is dying and I can not afford a new iMac just yet as I have only saved 3/4 of the cost of a new iMac and Apple's Australian website states my 7 year old iMac has ZERO trade in value.

I have the Problem Report for macOS which was created when I finally got my iMac restarted, I posted it here in full.

Is there anybody whom can analyse that report and very, very simply explain in lay mans terms what it states.

If nobody here can understand the full detail of the report, where can I post it to get a free full explanation of what is in it.

I desperately need help to keep my iMac alive for a while longer, so I can finally get the remaining funds together for a new iMac, I would very much prefer to try and extend the life of this iMac for good while yet.

Apple accepts PayPal for App Store and iTune Purchases, but they are being stubborn as they simply will not accept it for hardware sales.

The reason is the consumer financing offered by Apple generates more profits for them.

It involves you applying for Credit Card and a line of credit and you will end up paying more for your hardware, there are many pitfalls attached to Credit Cards in their fees and interest rates.

They seemingly fail to acknowledge they would sell more entry level iMacs if people could use PayPal's "Pay in 4".

I have used PayPal's "Pay in 4" several times with NO fees, interest or extra costs and more importantly no big reductions to my bank balance. I have replaced several big ticket household items and kept 100% of my bank balance intact.

I always get the AppleCare with a new iMac, I understand I have 60 days from the purchase date to get this.

I have carefully gone over my budget and will have just enough time to repay my relative and enough time to get the AppleCare within the 60 day timeframe.

So glad that soon this will all be behind me, I am desperately hoping this iMac doesn't develop anymore problems in the next week.

Looking forward to having a larger display, the new M3 chip model should perform better than my existing iMac which doesn't support Sonoma because of its specifications and age. The keyboard with TouchID should improve its security. Hopefully one day facial recognition will be part of iMac's design.

For the record here is EtreCheck Pro and it found evidence of kernel panics which they state could possibly be a sign of hardware failure.

However the Apple Diagnostics Tool gives me the all clear, unless something is being missed by Apples Diagnostic Tool.

So does anyone know about kernel panics and what causes them, how to prevent them etc and how to fix this.

I have adjusted those settings and will see if it fixes this.

I am using macOS Ventura 13.6.6 and do not have this "Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off.

For a very long time I have simply used the key combo of option+command+eject to put my iMac to sleep overnight and have never had problems before.

However I will follow your advice and allow the display to turn OFF during the day when not in use and shut down the iMac at bedtime.

If this is a change introduced by the last update to macOS Ventura 13.6.6 then it will be unpopular with many iMac users.

This has caused me a great deal of alarm and stress, I have been terribly worried that my 7 year old iMac was failing and I haven't quite accrued the needed funds to purchase the latest iMac with the M3 Chip.

If my iMac survives a few more months everything will be alright and I will have the funds for a new iMac.

I will see how things go, hopefully this will fix this.

I would like to get a new iMac as my current model is 7 years old and doesn't have the required specifications for running Sonoma.

I am sure a new iMac with an M3 chip would have give me a big performance improvement, the performance of an M3 chip would leave my current iMac in the dust.

I have accrued 3/4 of the needed funds for a new iMac, then something like this happens!!!!!!!!!,

I only need a few more months to accrue the remainder of the needed funds.

I was hoping to get some financial credit by using my iMac as a trade in. To my dismay the official Australian Apple website states my 7 year old iMac has NO trade in value and is only eligible for their recycling program. that would have helped greatly with the cost of a new iMac.

I am hoping your advice fixes this issue and I can keep using my current iMac for the time I need to get the needed funds.

I have already reset the NVRAM and SMC on my iMac, those were the very first remedial measures I tried without success.

However I will look into EtreCheckPro and see if that gives more information.

I can't believe I'm having such issues when I am so close to accomplishing my savings goal for a new iMac.