Intel Mac :: Beachball Starts Up But Then Quickly Shuts Back Down?
Jun 27, 2012
I can turn on my mac, the beach ball starts spinning and stays spinning for awhile, finally starts up but then quickly shuts back down? I have never encountered this type of problem with my desktop before! I have checked all the power supplies and reset the powercord, I unplugged the computer and tried to reboot it to no avail. Does anyone know how to do the type of reboot where you hold down the power button and two keys (?) wait for the 2nd chime then let go of the keys? I believe that is how it's done.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1), operating system- not 100% sure?
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Feb 16, 2010
Safari quickly gets bloated-starts low and goes to over a GB. Very slooow.I've cleaned it out several times-once with an Apple genius.I have a Macbook Pro Aluminum with 4GBCan anyone suggest a fix-I really like Safari
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Apr 23, 2012
I have an old g4 , the kind shaped like half a golf ball, which starts up and then quits at different places during the process. Sometimes with the gray screen and Apple logo, sometime later when the OS has fully installed,but fails quite rapidly after that. Then tries to reboot itself with varying degrees of failure.
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mac g4, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
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Feb 4, 2012
I have a 2009 iMac with SSD drive and 2TB drive.For the last 6 months, I'd get kernel errors every now and again, and I would reboot and things would be fine. A few days ago, the computer totally froze, and when I turned it on, it would shut right off. I tried booting to recovery partition, nothing worked. I took it to the apple store yesterday and they hooked it up to an external drive and then did a diagnostic test and the genius said it needed a fresh install of lion, that something was corrupting it. So we did that (for some reason though, it took about 4 tries for him to get it), and then I took the computer home and ran time machine.
Every thing worked as it should for about 12 hours, I did reboot a few times in that time. Anyways, now, it's back to where it was where I turn it on, there's a status bar on the bottom that fills about halfway and then the iMac shuts down. The apple genius said that a corrupt program/application might be causing that. I find this hard to believe ... I can understand a corrupt program crashing or not starting, but is it possible for that to not allow the computer to even turn on? The other thing is that when the computer crashed a few days ago, I hadn't installed anything new/etc .... ???
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Aug 12, 2009
After I installed 10.5.8. Ithought the beachball issues were gone. Yesterday I update Safari and it's a mess! Every few minutes Beachball and Beachball again. BTW I have the standard 250GB HDD.
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Feb 16, 2008
Just wondering if anyone has ever encountered this or if any experts out there know of the issue.
I have a spare White Macbook (late 2008: Core 2 Duo 2.1GHz, 1GB, 120GB) that I'd like to set up for my brother to use to introduce him to the wonderful world of Macs. The problem it is having is that when I have a battery connected to it (I tried 2 different ones included a known-good one that is brand-new just purchased from Apple) it powers on and gives me the chime, but then immediately shuts off unexpectedly giving that little "whine" sound like if it just lost power all of a sudden. However, when i take out the battery, and just plug it into the Magsafe AC charger it works fine. Also when just trying to run on battery it does not turn on at all. Here's some cliffs:
1) Macbook with just battery does not turn on
2) Macbook with battery + Magsafe AC charger connects powers on, gives the chime, but then immediately shuts off making the "whine" sound as if the power was suddenly cut off
3) Macbook with no battery connected and just the Magsafe AC charger connected works fine.
Do you guys think this is either:
A) battery connector issue (the little piece with the metal wires that the battery connects to. ~$50 part)
B) Logic Board issue
I already tried resetting the PRAM and SMU to no avail.
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My MacBook Pro will not start. It chimes and the gray progress bar starts and then the computer shuts off. I am able to start it holding the Command +R keys and access Disk Utility. That is where it says my S.M.A.R.T. drive is "failing". I have a backup from Time Machine from a week ago. I am concerned the computer is going to die. What should I do and is my computer going to die?.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 8GB RAM
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Starting abnormally, Like when I start my MacBook pro which is almost new. A bar runs on the white screen and then when it reached half way system shut down. Any way to reset my computer.Â
Also, when I am going to option, the system doesn't allow me by saying hard disk is locked.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
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My Macbook is brand new! (Barely 4 months old) Just recently my laptop will flash a black screen. It starts from the bottom and quickly flashes up the screen higher and higher each flash! i have read on some other pages it is a bad inverter on the inner core of the Macbook. Other than that I do not know what to do!
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Mar 19, 2012
my Imac 7,1 after wake up goes to beachball and requires a hard physical restart. why does it lock up?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iMac
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Apr 20, 2012
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iMac with OS X 10, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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I have a new iMac with mouse. Every time I move my mouse quickly left or right (i.e. if I am just moving it out of the way of my keyboard), the action causes the screen to close down so that I have to re-enter my password to get back to the pages I had open. It doesn't close down the computer, but puts it in sleep mode.
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May 30, 2012
Every few months, my iMac will start up from sleep mode on its own. Why does it do this, and is it something to be worried about? i am not touching the mouse or keyboard or using any remotely connected devices when this occurs.
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 22, 2012
I recently restarted my imac from shut down and it went straight to the guest account. I've also noticed that the dock is empty except for Finder and two other folders. Did something happen during the shutdown process?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jun 13, 2012
Everytime I start up my iMac (2011, 27 inch, OS X 10.7.4 Lion) it starts on what seems to be safe mode. After starting up on safe mode, I restart (not shut down, just restart) again, then it comes back normally.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 30, 2012
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iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4 GB RAM 1TB
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Jul 3, 2012
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), mackeeper
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), ilife 11
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May 3, 2012
When I have documents open and I walk away for a few minutes, when I come back and resume working, my computer freezes up and the little pinwheel starts spinning. I literally have to unplug it to get out of this frozen state. This has been getting progressively worse over the past three months. They told me to add more memory, which I did. However, the problem persists. Do you know why my computer would freeze up after the screen has had no activity for just a few minutes? My screen saver is set for an hour so I know this is not the problem.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Apr 4, 2012
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 1, 2012
I upgraded my 27" iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 duo from 4GB of ram (2x2GB) to 8GB of ram (2x4GB). I followed the instructions and removed the old ram, put in the new ram and after many restarts my computer finally came up. When it did finally come up I had the spinning wheel of death. When the screensaver came on, I heard my skype connect and I moved my mouse and wouldn't you know my computer was working! So to test to see if my computer would work again, I restarted. Same thing - came right up to spinning wheel - screen saver turned on after 30 minutes and again - Skype connected and no more spinning. Memory on Activity Monitor is looking great - but my computer is useless until the screen saver starts.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 27"
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May 20, 2012
My imac suddenly shuts down while on line. It has to be unpluged for a couple of hours before it will restart. Could it be the battery dying?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 24, 2012
I'm reinstalling since it seems the only solution to a failure of the drag and drop function. But disk two of the reinstall disks does not complete, I get a grey screen must restart computer in 4 languages. The computerr rejects other disks like tech tool, it wants to complete the reinstall with disk 2 only. Very frustrating. This is the iMac duo core from @ 2006? when they first came out.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Feb 20, 2012
I have an iMac 2.8 GHZ intel core i5 that, without any warning or strange sounds, shuts completely off. It is 27-inch, Mid 2010 model. I have 16gb ram running Lion 10.7.3.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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