I was actually thinking to swap some just to see if that was the
problem. If it is still acting up I'm gonna open it up again and make
sure everything is well-seated.
What prompted all this drama was that it started acting up, I ran
diagnostics and it looked like it was the HDD overheating so that is why
I did the swap/upgrade. Now maybe it is something else?
I erased the HDD and then tried a TMRestore, it is giving me the
spinning ball so either the mobo is going flaky, or the memory sticks or
something loose. AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!
---R
On 1/21/16 5:55 PM, clay via Mercedes wrote:
how is the RAM?
clay
On Jan 21, 2016, at 8:05 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
I fooled around with the iMac again, resat the memory, reformatted both the new
4TB HDD and the 250GB SSD, decided to go ahead and install the OS10.6 on the
HDD (thinking that the SSD might have been flaky from before), that worked
except it kept hanging on the wireless network connection and after a few
reboots got that shut off so then it was happy. Tried 2-3X to install the
extra apps from the disk, kept getting an error, discovered I had to trick the
machine into thinking it was 2010 and finally got that done after another
bomb-off or 2. I did not do the time machine restore when I did the OS
install. I did not open it up and reset all the connectors as it seems to be
mostly working.
So last night I plugged in the time machine backup and it cranked away for 7 or 8 hours, this morning it looked done.
The thing that confuses me is that when I installed the OS I did it as Rich Thomas which set up user
"richthomas" When I did the TM restore I had to give another name (though the TM was under
"richthomas" too, not sure if that makes any difference) "richthomas2" and it went ahead and did
it. After restarting and going in the preferences to make "richthomas2" the default user I now have all my
apps and such listed (except for 3 which seem to be missing, including the App Store app) but it keeps hanging
(spinning ball) now when I go to launch any apps, though it looks in Finder like everything (mostly) is there. I
plugged in a network cable and shut off the wireless to make sure that wasn't still an issue (I think my router is not
playing nice with macs on the marconi).
This is getting really annoying. I'm wondering if I should blow everything
away again, try to install the OS on the SSD instead of the HDD and see if I
can get that to work, if not on the HDD again then do the TM restore right away
so I don't have the two accounts going?
Thoughts? I'm sure this is being harder than it needs to.
--R
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