Intel Mac :: Why Does It Refuse To Turn On
Apr 20, 2012My apple computer refuses to turn on when me card reader is connected via the usb . It works ok no problem , it seem ok to me is there a problem with it should i be concerned?
View 2 RepliesMy apple computer refuses to turn on when me card reader is connected via the usb . It works ok no problem , it seem ok to me is there a problem with it should i be concerned?
View 2 RepliesOn my sister's iBook (12 in, 1.2GHz, running OS X 10.3.9), the Microsoft Office Suite and AppleWorks (possibly others, but I haven't discovered them, so I'm assuming just those two) all refuse to open. If I double-click them or click the Dock icon, they bounce once, then stop. Nothing else happens at all. I've repaired permission, trashed preferences, and reinstalled the applications, all to no avail. This is really weird and annoying, and though she can use Pages for now, she'd like to have those at least operational. Anyone have any ideas? I used to be an Apple Tech, but I don't have the diagnostics I had then, and I haven't seen anything like this anyways, so I don't know where to go from here.
View 10 Replies View RelatedIn the past month, my usually trusty G5 has taken up a bad habit of refusing to sleep properly. About one time in twenty, it will shut down the displays but not (as far as I can tell) anything else (fans still spinning, pulsating light won't come on). And it will refuse to wake up: I'll be forced to shut it down by holding the power button. I can't reproduce this reliably, so it's a little difficult to troubleshoot, naturally. Any hints of things I should look at or try doing? Current peripherals are: Cinema display; Dell monitor; Logitech RF wireless keyboard / mouse; FW400 hard drive; USB2 hard drive; Logitech 2.1 speaker system; sometimes iPod mini. (I don't think it's the iPod. It used to sometimes wake itself back up immediately after sleeping with the iPod plugged in, but this new problem has happened both with and without the iPod attached.)
View 9 Replies View RelatedOnce asleep and enters hibernation, the laptop will not start up. Even after I hit the space bar. The "sleeping light" stops going on and off and just sticks on and the screen stays un-lit. I am then forced to shut it off, so I will hold the power button down until I hear the hard drive shut down and then start it back up.
Then one of two things happen; either it starts up nicely or it starts up and remains with no display and I am forced to hard restart again. I have found that if my external HD is plugged into the USB port upon start up it will get stuck in start up; it will keep starting up the main hard-drive and nothing happens so I have to hard shut off and unplug the external and then start again. I have been trying to keep music going on my machine to avoid hibernation, but night times kinda suck.
There's a certain website that I visit regularly, but I can't seem to be able to visit it ever since I downloaded the new Leopard 10.5.6. I restarted then tried to open it but it says "Safari can't open the webpage" and when I tried FireFox it said the same thing.
So I tried opening the site from another computer, it worked. I have a wireless network, the site isn't blocked or protected I was able to visit it right until I downloaded the new version of Leopard. I can do to open the site? It's a regular site that isn't a threat to anything. Can you tell me what's wrong with my Mac?
My phone calls and it's my (pc-centric) friend Kasper. He's on msn with his girlfriend in Switzerland and she's panicking. She's just accidentally moved her desktop (including everything on it off course) to the trash. She's also trashed Skype (might have been on desktop?!?). And now she can't move it back out again!Unfortunately I'm not the master of Macs that Kasper hopes and I've no idea what to do about this except try to restart. To calm his girlfriend down I've told him to tell her that I'll be back in 30 min. with expert advice from Macrumors... So, what advice should I pass on to him to her?
View 6 Replies View Related iMovie is driving me round the bend.I have videos in .MTS, .AVI, .MOV formats and iMovie basically refuses to import any of them!!!
I have used handbrake to convert an AVI to MP4 and iMovie sees the file, imports but all i get is a blank screen? The file plays ok just starting it from desktop.
I have a problem with my macbook. Recently after a software update it started freezing when live streaming from the net. Than the problem continued to airport it either does not turn on or it shows it on but still no connection to the net if i connect via Ethernet and leave airport on Ethernet will disconnect and unable to reconnect again if i turn airport of at least Ethernet works. Freezing happens after a longer period of sleep mode.
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust added 11 tracks to iTunes and was sorting them via the info Tab, name of track artwork etc, when adding artwork to the tracks some tracks refuse to retain the picture. Seven out of the 11 tracks refuse to retain the artwork to be exact. I have never had this happen before so a bit confused at the moment
View 1 Replies View RelatedHad a breach on my gmail a couple of days ago and changed my password but then, the iCal on my Air then stopped syncing with my Gmail calender even when I checked that the password was correct. It just keeps saying:
iCal found a CalDav server but couldn't login with the username. Make sure username and password are correct and try again.
I've done the following:
1) Deleted off iCal and tried to reinstall
2) Tried to install as CalDav with the /calendar/dav/username@gmail.com/user/ with 443 SSL
Both ways don't work for me...
It worked fine last time I used it, shut down properly and now nothing.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I turn off my mac and the office by a blue screen appears with a stick in the thing running
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
will not turn on
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iMac
I have tried to turn on my mac as normal but it is not turning on at all like it has no power. i have checked all the powerpoints and all is conected.
Info:iMac, iOS 5.1.1, i have ios lion the latest
I went to turn the iMac on and it would not do a thing. Checked the power and unplugged and repluged it in.
Info:iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2
I just bought a hd camera and i want to use this function: Transferring files to a computer or ftp server. You can wirelessly transfer recordings directly to a mac computer running an ftp server.
Info:imac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
The fan on my imac constantly runs, it has only done this for 2 days now, but if using the mac or if its sleeping the fan wont stop?
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imac
My brand new iMac doesn't turn on on the next day
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I was trying to download the free version of a game, and immediately after i clicked download, i started to see the computer slow down a bit. However, I just thought that it was a lag and it would fix itself when the game completely dowloaded. Afterwards, it said that there were a few errors that occured during the download, and asked me if I wanted to continue to play. I clicked yes, because I didn't think it would be much of a problem. Afterwards, the mouse was stuck on the middle of the screen, and no matter how much I wanted to click out of the window, quit Safari, or even restart my computer, the mouse would continue to go back to the one spot. I have absolutely no idea what to do to restart the computer, or quit Safari. All I have done is just sleep the computer, but that hasn't helped it at all.
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iMac
2006 24 inch intel iMac won't turn on?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI always put my 24" iMac to sleep each night when I go to bed by clicking on Finder/sleep. Twice in four days, I've tried to wake it up the next morning by touching the shift key and discovered that it had somehow turned off overnight. I had to turn it on manually with the button in the back. It may be no big deal, but it has me puzzled and a bit frustrated.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Iphone and MobileMe
Some how in the past I set up iCloud on my desktop and now I need to turn it off.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My iMac turned off by itself.Now the power button is inoperative.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Why did I get a folder on the screen with a question mark in it when I powered my iMac?
Info:iMac, iOS 4.3
It just started doing this recentley. If i leave it on for a long length of time or overnight i have to unplug it for a while, plug it back in, and then it will turn on.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I shutdown my IMac last night and then went to restart it this morning and it would not turn on.
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
I'm having trouble with the sound, it will turn off on it's own sometimes. The on screen volume bar will show a circle with a / through it.
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iMac
how do i turn on exhaust in imac its getting heat alot
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), nothing
I want to turn my iMovie project into a DVD, what do I do?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a 27' iMac with internal SDD and HDD. I really like how it is so quiet. It worked really well out of the box though had a glitch which required a reinstall of Lion. Now the HDD is constantly spinning even if there are no apps open that require r/w access to the HDD. I've used pmset to turn it off after 1 min but I'd rather it didn't come on at all unless i send something to/from the HDD. Any ideas how to configure this correctly?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 27" i7 SDD HDD