iMac Slower / Noise
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- bainbridge
My older iMac continuously makes its "processing" noise that's like a faint crackle. It's never completely silent anymore.
Any waking it up from sleep mode takes longer than it used to. Loading programs takes longer.
My computer is getting old? Is there any way to fix this?
- detritus0
When was the last time it had a good clean?
Do you smoke around it?
- fadein110
Sounds like the hard drive may be dying, mine did something similar after 4 years - get an apple repair man to replace the hard drive (or do it yourself if you can be bothered to go through the hellish process of removing the screen and have the right tools) - make sure you backup regularly - I was lazy and left mine until it died but made sure i backed up pretty much every day. The noise got a lot louder as it got worse. Replacement drive gave the old machine a new lease of life - still use it - 6 years old now.
- ArmandoEstrada0
SSD Solves many issues...
- true yes depends if he wants to pay for that and if an old iMac can take it.fadein11
- The price of SSD is so cheap now. You an get 256 for $100.ArmandoEstrada
- not sure old iMac compatible SSD is that cheap or wasn't when i looked.fadein11
- doesnotexist0
yes it's your hard drive, same thing happened to me. i swapped my drive and maxed the ram out. still a great a machine, from 2010.
- same - my screen isn't as good as it was - has a few slight dark patches when viewing a single colour across screen but barely noticeable when windows / files afadein11
- re open - a really great machine I have to say. Love Apple computers, just not so keen on the rest.fadein11
- yep i have some burn marks and what looks like glue marks but you don't really see if when work is flashing across the screendoesnotexist
- Daithi0
Replaced my iMac HD in similar circumstances — iFixit guides are very thorough. It was a very tricky process, took two of us the guts of 3 hours with plenty of sweaty-palmed moments. But it worked.