iMac

Discussions between 01 October 2008 and 21 April 2011.
Subject

Turning Off & On my iMac

“the computer just shut off with out any warning, after a brief hesitation I pushed the power button again and the computer came back to life”

Curious temperature / transfer speed behaviour

“More and more it seems the HD in the iMac slows down in ability to read as HD temperature goes up.”

Cooling fan on iMac

“The cooling fan on my iMac 3.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo has suddenly come on from start up and is running very fast and is also very loud.”

Fan activity with Leopard

“Since I've made the upgrade from Panther 10.3.9 to Leopard 10.5.6, I have noticed that the Fan activity is bigger”

CPU too hot

“When my iMac G5 works in a very intensive way, it switch suddely in the sleep mode.”

iG5 fans

“Today, my iMac G5 started running its fan faster than usual.”

iMac sleep/crash

“My brand new ( 6 month) iMac G5 - keeps going to sleep unexpectedly.”

Sleep-wake

“Any idea why it might wake/fail to sleep?”

Scheduled Shutdown and External Hard Drives

“I'm not sure if I should adhere to such a routine, or simply leave the machine running 24 X 7”

Not sleeping

“My iMac (late 2007) running 10.5.5 (and previously 10.5.4) seems not to sleep unless I make it do so manually.”