wheel of death

Hello Everyone.

Have this rainbow wheel problem.

I love my iMac, however its not very well. I use my imac for a couple of core tasks only .. so its not full of Apps and other software. I am so careful in what I download. I dont like clutter on a computer.

Started to have the spinning wheel problem aout 2 months ago.

I am not computer wizard.

Does this Etre Check saying anything. Have read other posts and followed re-sitting of pram, repair disk and permissions. Others are telling me by disk is about to fail? The computer is only 2 years old.

Would welcome any thoughts.

Thanks

Shaun

Problem description:

I have this rainbow wheel….Understand others call it the wheel of death.

EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)

Report generated 12 February 2015 12:17:02 GMT

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Hardware Information: ℹ️

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012) (Technical Specifications)

iMac - model: iMac13,1

1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ℹ️

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M - VRAM: 512 MB

iMac 1920 x 1080

System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) - Time since boot: 3:41:57

Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE HDD ST1000LM024 disk0 : (1 TB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 999.35 GB (972.50 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

USB Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Mac App Store and identified developers

User Login Items: ℹ️

iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Safari Extensions: ℹ️

1Password

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

None

Time Machine: ℹ️

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

2% WindowServer

0% fontd

0% SystemUIServer

0% configd

0% cloudpaird

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

567 MB com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond

155 MB Safari

103 MB Finder

103 MB WindowServer

86 MB mds_stores

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

2.81 GB Free RAM

3.91 GB Active RAM

973 MB Inactive RAM

901 MB Wired RAM

1.36 GB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

Feb 12, 2015, 08:34:07 AM Self test - passed

Feb 10, 2015, 01:51:36 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCor e.brokerd_2015-02-10-135136_[redacted].crash

Feb 9, 2015, 06:58:32 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/DictationIM_2015-02-09-185832_ [redacted].crash

Feb 9, 2015, 02:19:14 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/DictationIM_2015-02-09-141914_ [redacted].crash

Feb 9, 2015, 01:51:14 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCor e.brokerd_2015-02-09-135114_[redacted].crash

Feb 9, 2015, 01:16:05 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/DictationIM_2015-02-09-131605_ [redacted].crash

iMac

Posted on Feb 12, 2015 4:34 AM

16 replies

Feb 14, 2015 12:50 AM in response to Shaunfromhants

This morning my iMac is flying. Ok, have had the spinning wheel once and that was only for second. No hangs.

Whether the re-installing of the OS X has played a part, well? I wish now I did a clean install because I may be wrong here, the built in recovery disk does not erase. The reason I say this when my iMac powered up after the reinstalling all my data was there. I didn't need my back up. Could be totally wrong here.

Also went into System Preferences - Energy Saver - removed the tick from - putting to hard disk when possible.

I thought I give it ago anyway. May be more in hope.

So today I am not convinced it is my hard disk on the way out. This all started after the last two updates to Yosemite.

So I will see what happens in the days ahead. Thought some who are following may be interested.

Shaun

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