So, I have been playing with my iMac, trying to figure out why it keeps freezing up on me under OSX and crashing under boot camp. Like many other owners of the new 2009 iMacs with the ATI 4850 graphics card I have been suffering from numerous freezes and crashes. I thought it was heat related since I never hear my fans speed up as things get hot. So, I downloaded a fan control program and cranked it up. However, while trying to do a Jungle Disk back up to Amazon s3, it hung again, twice. So, freezes and no backups. Great. This is with wireless on. So, I book into boot camp and turn off the wireless adaptor, since I don't need it to play games. I still get crashes. I will have to say though, that the crashes don't happen as often. I was able to play for a few hours at a time, before I turned off the wireless adaptor, it was 30 minutes at most.
Monday, April 27, 2009
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So, I left my machine running all day while I was at work and when I got home it was frozen. So, just sitting there, not doing anything it froze. Perhaps, it had done a timecapsule/timemachine backup while I was at work? That lends itself to the whole wireless problem again doesn't it.
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