2010 imac just turned off?
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- fredddddd
my imac just turned off for no reason.
turned on fine after not touching it for a while.
what are possible reasons for this? nothing else on the power supply turned off?
should i worry?
- Ruffian0
- no thanksfredddddd
- loldrgz
- oh fredddddd,it's not a choicemonospaced
- helpppppppp meeeeeeeefredddddd
- uan0
what Ruffian said, bad RAM or overheating, or the new imacs do not work sundays
- georgesIII0
"turned on fine after not touching it for a while."
- acescence0
go to applications > utilities and open console.app
if the log list isn't showing, click the "show log list" button
find system.log and select it
look for the date and time your machine shut down and see if there are any log entries around that time that may give you a clue as to what happened.
- dopepope0
What kind of mac?
- fredddddd0
iMac10,1
- brodyR0
mac's ??? who needs 'em
- fredddddd0
it says kcgerrorfailure on the log
- fredddddd0
4 GB RAM
- JerseyRaindog0
Sounds like a kernel panic. Run disk utilites and see if anything comes up.
- NONEIS0
Pay your electric bill, problem solved ;D
- drgz0
do you have an external harddrive attached?
- e-pill0
did anything else in your place or on that electrical out also shut off?
or was it only the iMac? you might have been updating an app or the app had auto update in their preferences and it automatically restarted but with a delayed start.. or static from you or things around you like a vibrator..
- Orbit0
Go out and have some fun. Your computer has achieved sentience and merely wants the best for you.
- fredddddd0
yes and no
- hotroddy0
my new macbook pro turns off if I hold it at an angle. Windows 7 here I come!
- ok_not_ok0
Try running Applejack
- lukus_W0
I have a friend who had a five year old iMac which has just died .. logic board has given up. They're moving to a PC.
- dopepope0
It's been happening to me as well. It's a new mid 2010 iMac, 27", i7 quadcore intel, 16gb ram, 2TB hardrive with 256 solid state drive, 1gb vram radeon graphics card. The fucker randomly and spontaneously shuts down with no apparent reason what so ever. 4 times so far in the 4 weeks I've had it. Aside from this depressing quality, it's a beautiful machine and a pleasure to work with.