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Warning: The following is a rant. Read at your own discretion. I had the foresight to document this the second day this started happening. It’s the Apple gray screen of death, aka a “Kernel Panic”. These have been happening since Nov 22 and occuring more frequently lately. I know from previous problems with my first iMac, that it’s only going to get worse. No, it’s not some little glitch or a minor hiccup.

Sometimes, I will get these within seconds of turning on the computer. Sometimes, it will let me surf and work for 2 hours before the dreaded SOD comes to mess me up. And it doesn’t matter what I’m doing - checking email, surfing, even posting this message.

This has been happening several times a day and it’s really frustrating. Restarting isn’t as simple as pressing a button - because I will get a blank screen with 3 beeps and a flashing light. For the restart to work, I have to disconnect the power cord and leave it off for several minutes.

I guess I should consider myself lucky that I was able to post my last 90/90 features without losing any information. It sure was touch n’ go. No, strike that. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I was able upload these pictures from my camera, crop them in Photoshop, upload them to my WP file and start a few sentences before I was yet again taunted by the evil GSOD.

All attempts to look up my problem in Apple support and apple forums have been futile. I guess Apple took their customer support chat away? I could no longer find it. I will try an archive reinstall tomorrow and see if that works.

On the upside, my iMac is under a 3 year warranty. The other positive - I do have a pretty cute desktop, don’t you think? Clicky click the thumbnails for a closer look. Yep, I know - cute is as cute does. Now if only my iMac would work!

End of rant.