On Feb 16, 2010, at 11:50 AM, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 2/16/10 8:22:28 AM, [email protected] writes:
The slow is a beach ball for a while before opening and closing
files.
All three machines have the exact same HDD contents via CCC. All
machines have the same exact 1GB RAM I have run mantaintence on
all the iMac's Smart disk status is OK. One strange thing I do see
on the slow one is the display will shimmer ever so slighty, can
that be an indication of a crappy logic board?
2 separate issues. Beach ball slow before opening and closing
files points to HD problems. Waiting for the HD to spin up. Have
you checked the energy saver pane to see what the settings are? My
bet is a HD spin down on the slower machine and the beach ball is
waiting for the spin up.
That is ASSUMING that smart reporting is infallible. I would make
good backups of the slow machine and have a spare HD at the ready.
The shimmy I would guess is a bad crt, not logic board.
Len
I'll check the energy saver when I get home. However due to the
fact that all three iMacs are an exact CCC of eachother wouldn't
the preferences also be the same?
That assumes that no one has gone in and changed any settings.
My overall bet is a soon to be failing HD that is not reporting SMART
errors yet.
I would get ready for a HD failure on the slow one.
Len
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