24" iMac running extremely slow

[jesse]

I tried erasing the HD (zeros) prior to reinstalling the system and gave up after 7 hours of no progress, estimated time was over 24 hours.

Disk Utility found nothing wrong.

I purchased a 500GB HD from OWC, but was hoping to not have to go that route, from what I understand it's not any easy swap with the intel macs. It's looking like that is the way I'm going to have to go.

Yes, with no apps and 1GB of ram this machine is running slow, I went ahead and let the install progam run for a few days and it did make progress, like I said it was up to loading the garageband loops from disk 2 before it errored out and quit.

This machine was purchased new over a year ago.

[AllGold]

If the installer took that long and crashed on a freshly erased drive then you have a serious hardware problem.

[Article Accelerator]

Assuming the 1 GB or RAM you have in there now is original RAM, it looks like you have a bad hard drive or a logic board problem.

[Black Landlord]

[quote jesse]I tried erasing the HD (zeros) prior to reinstalling the system and gave up after 7 hours of no progress, estimated time was over 24 hours.

Disk Utility found nothing wrong.

I purchased a 500GB HD from OWC, but was hoping to not have to go that route, from what I understand it's not any easy swap with the intel macs. It's looking like that is the way I'm going to have to go.

Yes, with no apps and 1GB of ram this machine is running slow, I went ahead and let the install progam run for a few days and it did make progress, like I said it was up to loading the garageband loops from disk 2 before it errored out and quit.

This machine was purchased new over a year ago.
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