Don’t tell the pc users, but my 2year old iMac has a problem.
It boots up. I log on. Safari fires up as per settings.

Then **** all. Mouse moves, icons on the doc act when hovered over, but Clicky no worky.
I can’t even force quit safari or restart finder.

Any ideas??

Check across the top by the vents – is it a bit hot?

Sounds like it might be firing up, HDD getting a bit hot and then everything grinding to a halt…if it’s getting hot, then stop, don’t do anything, and get a specialist to recover your stuff.

Don’t fire up Safari? Trash it and download a new version?

get the boot disk and launch from that, see what happens,

If you have the original disks there should be a diagnostics disk in there, but expect your fans to go like mad.

I had an issue a few years ago with some new memory causing the system to crash, but only after it got a little warm.

Mouse problem? Just a thought.

Could be worse, your Immac could have failed.

Mouse problem? Just a thought

Do any of the keyboard shortcuts work?

Don’t fire up Safari? Trash it and download a new version?

+1, use Firefox instead.

my iRON failed the other day so all my shirts have been creased this week

it aint getting hot. it’s not up and running for that long.
I’ll fish out the disks and try them.

cheers!

Try a different keyboard or at least unplugging and plugging it back into a different USB port?

if you hold in shift as it starts up it’ll start it up in a safe mode, might disable your startup items, i’m guessing that’s why safari is launching, then that’ll tell you if it’s safari that’s causing the problems.. dunno just a guess.

also if it’s a disc problem.

if you hold in apple+S as you start up that’ll get you into single user mode(command line thingy like dos) and you can then check if there are any problems with the disc.. type in fsck -yf wait till in finishes then restart it(type exit or reboot, canny mind.)… like i say just guessing.

applejack it.

Repair permissions from startup disc

CRTL ALT DEL?

It was a wireless mouse problem: mac OS reputation remains intact, PHEW!