I have a late 2008 Intel iMac (24") that I keep having problems with. I've taken it to the Apple Store where they replaced the hard drive, fan, heat sink and more. It worked fine for the 90 day warranty period, but now it's acting up again. I am constantly getting Kernel Panics and having to shut down. Sometimes I have to leave it off for 20 minutes or so before it will reboot.
I've run the hardware test on it (all checked out fine) and I monitor the temperatures, etc. Every day (and this is not an exaggeration) I have to run disk utility from the Snow Leopard disk and run repair disk because when I run verify disk (after it crashes) I get a message saying it has an "Invalid Volume File Count. Should be blah blah blah". I don't want to waste money taking to the Apple Store again just to have it fail 90 days later... should I just trash the machine or is there something that can be done? I've read about Disk Warrior, but is it worth the $100 bucks?
I've tried re-installing Snow Leopard (at least five times now) and it will work for a few hours or maybe day then crash again. Is there something inherently wrong with these iMacs? I have another (smaller) iMac that doesn't have any problems).
I've been a HUGE Mac fan but these ongoing issues are really starting to change my mind.
I've run the hardware test on it (all checked out fine) and I monitor the temperatures, etc. Every day (and this is not an exaggeration) I have to run disk utility from the Snow Leopard disk and run repair disk because when I run verify disk (after it crashes) I get a message saying it has an "Invalid Volume File Count. Should be blah blah blah". I don't want to waste money taking to the Apple Store again just to have it fail 90 days later... should I just trash the machine or is there something that can be done? I've read about Disk Warrior, but is it worth the $100 bucks?
I've tried re-installing Snow Leopard (at least five times now) and it will work for a few hours or maybe day then crash again. Is there something inherently wrong with these iMacs? I have another (smaller) iMac that doesn't have any problems).
I've been a HUGE Mac fan but these ongoing issues are really starting to change my mind.