My poor iMac G5

[MacDan]

Hey guys. Lately, my iMac has been painstakingly slowwwwwwww (at start up, with basic functions, and online. I guess it's lack of RAM, but I'm not so sure. What do you guys think it can be?

Thanks!

PS: I noticed something last night. After I was talking to my Dad about "the PC's at school being faster than the iMac", the iMac sped up for some reason. Yes guys, I was having impure thoughts about PC's. I thought I needed one, for now. Maybe an XPS 420...

 

[MultiFinder]

Some more info would be nice; complete specs, what you've done to it since/before it came slow, etc.

 

[wood_e]

I bet your HD is going... FAST...

I would go get a replacement. If your iMac doesn't have an iSight it's easy to replace it. If it has an iSight, use my guide...

 

[QuadSix50]

Make sure that it's nothing to do with this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2390

I've already sent in my iMac G5 twice early this year and so far it's running OK. Mine wasn't even listed in the range of serial numbers, but they replaced the parts at no charge anyways. Apple is aware that this is affecting all iMac G5 models, not just the ones mentioned on the link.

 

[MacDan]

Complete specs: 1.8 Ghz PPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 80 gig HD. I've done nothing to it since buying it, except for the guy at the apple store who inserted the extra 256 stick of RAM.

@ QuadSix50:

Thanks for that. I had the g5 go into the apple store two years ago for the "unclear or distorted picture". A resistor on the mobo had poped. Thanks again!

 

[Christopher]

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable.

 

[wally]

Some simple stuff you can try...

When you run the disk repair and verification stuff within disk utilities while booted off the OS X install media, does it catch and repair anything?

Then, back in OS X, running Activity Monitor probably found in the Utilities folder of Applications, anything unusual show up in terms of utilization of CPU cycles or memory?

 

[QuadSix50]

Lucky, you got the cool iMac where it was user serviceable.

Yup, mine's the same revision model. I was a bit bummed to find out only weeks after I purchased my 2 GHz ALS model that the iSight model was released, but upon learning how user-accessible my revision of the iMac was, I didn't feel so bad anymore.