| System Error - What to do?
Hey Everyone,
I'm not sure if this is the right spot, but wanted to post this here...
Forewarning here: I'm a Windows guy, and basically don't know much about the mac platform. I've done some basic stuff with it (networking, mainly), and upgraded the memory on her IMAC to 1 gig, but that's about it.
Yesterday my wife and I were entertaining some friends and I heard a loud fan noise coming from our office. When I entered, I quickly realized that the MAC had locked up and it was the mac itself macking the noise. After turning it off, I left it off, as it seemed to be running abnormally hot (which I thought may have been the cause of this).
Well, today my wife was actually working on it, and it locked up on her 3 times in 10 minutes (after about 2 hours of working on it). The third time, the screen displayed a strange error, and then almost immediately after, the fans on the unit kicked into overdrive similar to what happened last night.
This was after I tried finding a utility that would allow me to see what temp the system was operating at. I found the system monitor, which allowed me to see what resources were running, but all of that seemed normal.
We turned off the machine after I took this picture. I have not turned it back on yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Nick
--See the screenshot of the error on the attached file.
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