WARNING - THIS RESPONSE IS SORT OF OFF TOPIC BUT A REPLY TO TW. Sorry.
Thank you..
Here is what I have:
iMac - 10.5.8 Leopard
MacBook Pro - 10.5.8 Leopard
iPhone 4
iPad 2
ScanSnap Scanner (Fujitsu)
Maxtor 750 HD Backup Drive
Brother Laser Printer HL 4570 CWL
HP Printer J6480
Wireless Router Lincsys E2500
APC Back-UPS XS 1000
Mobile Me user for at least 2-3 years, now a limited user because I can't get to Lion. :-((
HP Laptop Windows Vista (only for certain work programs)
All Mac data backed up on time machine external HD, Carbonite, Mobile Me/iCloud. I made a cloned copy and it's on a flash drive.
Model Name: | iMac |
Model Identifier: | iMac7,1 |
Processor Name: | Intel Core 2 Duo |
Processor Speed: | 2 GHz |
Number Of Processors: | 1 |
Total Number Of Cores: | 2 |
L2 Cache: | 4 MB |
Memory: | 6 GB |
Bus Speed: | 800 MHz |
Boot ROM Version: | IM71.007A.B03 |
SMC Version (system): | 1.20f4 |
Leopard trying to get to Lion.. Apple store replaced optical drive and installed Snow Leopard Nov 2011
Under Snow, iMac froze, crashed, and got hot (top left area.) For example I would go to the applications folder on the toolbar to open it, when I did that, the display/graphics was messed up - (i.e. white where it should be black..or just random spots or squares would show up) The mouse and keyboard would become unresponsive, and the monitor became VERY hot (top left.) Sometimes I would get a grey screen with white lines in it. Sometimes the spinning beach ball.
Suggested causes were bad graphics card, permissions, damaged directory, bad logic card, dying hard disk, fan not working, virus, third party software.. to name a few. Bought Disk Warrior and fixed a damaged directory (I don't even know how it got damaged..?)
After a month of total frustration.. I moved Snow Leopard to an external drive, then reformated the imac HD and did a clean install of Leopard. When I boot up in Leopard, no problems at all.
How could a perfectly performing iMac start freezing up immediately after the switchover to Snow L. Then... revert back to it's perfectly flawless self after going back to the original OS? If it were a hardware issue (graphics card, hard drive, logic card.. etc.) how did that faulty card "repair" itself? If a graphics card is broken.. It would stay broken, I would think. I would be more inclined to think that the "card or ??" couldn't handle the work load of SL.. that's why it gets hot..???
Every so often I try to boot up into Snow L and run permissions and updates.. in case there has been a patch/fix. Not yet, still hopeful.
As far as Java goes, the Java Plugin Add-On has been blocked by Mozilla - so it is inactive. But on Firefox preferences, it shows "JavaScript Enabled" Not sure what the difference is. Should both be turned off? Is there an alternative to Java?
Yeah, my Apple techs here might not appreciate you coming all this way to show them up. I'm happily gimping along here until I can walk in a store and buy a new machine that will run everything I need. Right now, that is not the case. Some people are having my same issues with one week old computers running Lion.. I haven't heard how Mountain Lion is doing. That may be the ultimate fix. But you can see, I can't get there from here.
I'm not really looking to fix this computer anymore... I'm just trying to protect it.
Thanks again..
Helen