05-14-2008, 09:14 PM
I have a 24" iMac, 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 1 GB of Ram that is running extremely slow.
This is a problem that had been getting worse for some time, just checking my email would cause the spinning beach ball.
So far I've tried erasing the hard drive and reinstalling OS 10.4, it ran for 2 day and finally gave up, I've run Disk Warrior 4 on it and It didn't have any problems reading the disk, it is set up in target mode connected to a 17" iMac, but when I told it to replace the directory it's pretty much just sitting there with the spinning beach ball.
Is there something else I can try, I really don't want to try to replace the hard drive, but will if it comes down to that.
Added: I had tried upping the ram to 4GB and there was no difference in performance.
Thanks.
This is a problem that had been getting worse for some time, just checking my email would cause the spinning beach ball.
So far I've tried erasing the hard drive and reinstalling OS 10.4, it ran for 2 day and finally gave up, I've run Disk Warrior 4 on it and It didn't have any problems reading the disk, it is set up in target mode connected to a 17" iMac, but when I told it to replace the directory it's pretty much just sitting there with the spinning beach ball.
Is there something else I can try, I really don't want to try to replace the hard drive, but will if it comes down to that.
Added: I had tried upping the ram to 4GB and there was no difference in performance.
Thanks.