I am starting to have my imac go a little nuts on me. I was importing video from Iphoto to Imovie when the screen went dark and the message " Your computer must be turned off now, Please press power button.
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imac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
This morning the hard drive on my G5 sounded like it was at 8000 rpm's and there was a message on my screen to shut down the computer using the power button. I did this. Now anytime I try to power back up, I get the white screen with the apple and the "booting" icon, which then goes to a blue screen with the same icon, which then is just the blue screen with my mouse icon floating around. Also, on the random occasion, after booting to the blue screen it takes me to a DOS looking screen that asks for my login and password, of which I have neither.
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Power Mac G5
When I shut my computer down it won't start up again unless I physically unplug it and plug it back in again.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My wife's iMac (about 4 years old, OS is pretty up to date) won't boot up. I turn it on, get the apple logo, gray-ness "curtains" down and I get that yucky "you must turn your computer off by holding down the on button" (or someting like that) in several languages.
Tried these, none worked:
(1) -Shut down your Mac
-Disconnect the power cord
-Press and hold the Mac’s power button for 5 seconds
-Release the button
-Reattach the power and boot the Mac as usual
(2) -Shut down the computer.
-Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously.
-Turn on the computer.
-Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
-Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the 3rd time.
-Release the keys and let your system boot up.
(3) -Power the iMac off
-Power your iMac on and hold down the "Option" key
-Choose your internal hard drive (Macintosh HD) and boot up your iMac
I am getting a pop up "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now?".
The one we get, if pressed the power button to switch it off?. The problem is not consistent and mostly I get if left inactive for some time(random). I have run the hardware test(installer DVD and pressing D) without any issue found.
This started happening around the beginning of this year. I contacted Apple Support and they worked with me on-line and over the phone. It happened again the next day. After it happened about 20 more times, I took it into the Apple Store and they decided to reinstall the OS. Since then, it has happened about 10 more times.
This has happened with and without attached devices or flash drives. It has happened on different wi-fi networks. It generally happens when I am navigating with the track pad or with a mouse. I don't recall ever leaving the room and returning to find the gray screen. In other words, it happens shortly after I have moved the cursor. I've noticed the pinwheel usually appears before the gray screen.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I got this message this afternoon "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" with the options to either "Ignore" or Eject" This is in reference to my External Hard Drive "Buffalo" 1TB. I just got my Mac 27inch this week and when i got it i hooked up this hard drive to it, historically used on my old windows machine, but was still FAT32 formatted. I was able to upload all my pics to Aperture and music to iTunes. Was able to surf the data no problem. This afternoon i noticed that it was no longer visible in the "Finder" and afre rebooting several times,got this message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" Neither the mac nor the HD was moved since yesterday, early this am when it worked.
Some info:I had used this external storage unit for more then a year.I sold my PC today so cant test if the hard drive still works on that. I have the latest 27 inch mac (2.7GHz)Storage is connected to a power source ( I tried both USB and FireWire, both yield the same message)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Recently os x has been quitting and I've had to shut down my computer. I've tried to figure out the source of it but I've been having trouble pin-pointing the cause of this issue. Here is my error details.
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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 13204222 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 9
Anonymous UUID: DAB34753-1975-4323-A64A-180D801699D7
Fri Dec 17 16:22:35 2010
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001AB0FE): Kernel trap at 0x73641369, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000048, CR3: 0x010f5000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0xbce92834, EBX: 0x1b3474c5, ECX: 0x00000048, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x00000048, EBP: 0x734a3c78, ESI: 0x0000085a, EDI: 0x08d46000
EFL: 0x00010046, EIP: 0x73641369, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x004f0010
Error code: 0x00000002
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x734a3a98 : 0x12b4c6 (0x45f91c 0x734a3acc 0x13355c 0x0)
0x734a3ae8 : 0x1ab0fe (0x469a98 0x73641369 0xe 0x469248)
0x734a3bc8 : 0x1a1713 (0x734a3be0 0x73a8ba45 0x734a3c78 0x73641369)
0x734a3bd8 : 0x73641369 (0xe 0x48 0x6660010 0x10)
0x734a3c78 : 0x73636535 (0x48 0x85a 0x53a48 0x4f91c4)
0x734a3ca8 : 0x7363790d (0x1b061f87 0x8000085a 0xf1db4f7a 0x105)
0x734a3d98 : 0x73638257 (0x1b061f87 0x8000085a 0x0 0x0)
0x734a3e58 : 0x1ac38d (0xffffffff 0x7fffffff 0x10 0x202)
0x734a3e78 : 0x1358e1 (0x0 0x1acfda0d 0x85a 0x54756c)
0x734a3ec8 : 0x136217 (0x1 0x9cfa790 0x8c4fc7c 0x14057e)
0x734a3f38 : 0x136e7c (0x9cfa7ac 0x0 0x0 0x548ee4)
0x734a3f78 : 0x136efd (0x425a22 0xa100c40 0x0 0xa100c40)
0x734a3f98 : 0x425ae1 (0x425a22 0xa100c40 0x16ba2790 0x429324)
0x734a3fc8 : 0x1a14fc (0xa100c40 0x0 0x10 0x0)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(76.2.0)@0x73635000->0x73653fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9L31a
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBook5,1 (Mac-F42D89C8)
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Here's the scenario (I hope someone can help):
Several months ago my poor baby took a dive off a counter onto the tile floor, while running. Never before this did I see the "Kernal Panic" restart screen.
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Could it be my video card? Is it more likely hardware or software?
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