Mac Mini :: Its Suddenly Went Into A Grey Screen And Doesn't Respond?

Jun 5, 2012

My mac mini doesn't respond to anything, i try changing screens but they  do the same thing?

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Mac mini

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: MBA Screen Doesn't Respond Well On Wake After It Goes To Sleep

Mar 3, 2012

Is it that there is just too much going on for the system, I have my HD encrypted. 

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MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), HD encrypted

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OS X :: Macbook Doesn't Boot - Blank Grey Screen, CDs Not Recognised

Nov 24, 2008

My Macbook will not boot up. I am now faced with a plain grey screen with no apple logo, chime sound or activity wheel appearing.

Like most Macbook users I know, I rarely go through the booting up process from day to day use unless the System Updater requires a restart, but this time there was a different reason for me restarting the system.

When I was expanding an archive with Stuffit Expander, the app froze up. I went and deleted the archive file knowing that it was corrupt, but I did this too soon before the app had a chance to close down properly. It became stuck as a process that couldn't be closed down. Its dock icon didn't have a 'Force Quit' menu option so, I chose to perform a restart.

The Macbook went through the startup process but took a very long time. (I guess after reading around the forums this was fsck attempting to scan and repair the potentially damaged hard drive). I mistakenly performed a hard reboot thinking the system had hung.

The second time, it displayed the apple logo and wheel for about 2 minutes before showing a circle with a line through it and no further activity. When I rebooted again the apple logo and wheel were displayed with the hard drive activity audibly in a repetitive on and off state. I left this for about 15 minutes before deciding to turn it off. At the present moment it starts up to a plain grey screen as mentioned at the beginning. I tried experimenting with removing the extra 2gb memory module but there was no difference with or without it. I tried resting the NVRAM with Option-Command-P-R but all I got back was the startup chime (i.e. the muted volume I had it at has now reset to the default level).

When Option is held down on booting, the mouse cursor is visible over the same blank grey screen. No volumes show up. I have selected the Finder Preferences option to hide all volumes from showing up on the desktop, but I doubt this would affect volumes from showing up on the boot up screen.

I have tried booting from the 10.4 CD that came with the Macbook and the 10.5 (retail) DVD. The 'C' or 'D' keys do not have any effect either.

I think my options now are either to try and obtain a firmware reset CD which might make it possible to recognise volumes again, or there's the possibility that I'll have to get a new hard drive. Can you suggest anything else I might be able to try?

On the subject of hard drives, if it turns out that the Macbook's hard drive is beyond repair and I need a new drive I only have a caddy for 3.5" PATA drives which I use for Time Machine. With an appropriate 2.5" SATA caddy is there any way I could access the filesystem in Windows? How else could I format the drive to the correct FS?

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Software :: Hard Disk Doesn't Get Further Than Grey Screen With Apple Logo?

Nov 8, 2009

OSX 10.4.11 (Tiger) PPC G4 733 MHz

My Tiger volume gets stuck when starting up, it doesn't get further then the grey screen with the Apple logo. The clock with stripes keeps working but it doesn't get me to the blue screen.

For compatibility reasons concerning different softwares i use (Protools, Reason etc...) i keep changing the internal HD's for years now, thus changing the OS's (10.3.9, 10.4.11 etc). Never caused any problem.

When i boot from another 'master' volume (f.e. 10.3.9) OR from the OSX install CD, putting the Tiger volume as 'slave', in order to verify its disk permissions or the disk itself to be able to repair them, it's 'invisible', not 'seen' by the other volume.

So no 'verify disk permissions' nor Combo Update possible, maybe those things could solve my problem.

My cables are working perfectly: making the exact same connections and jumper settings with all my other volumes, is no problem at all: every volume is correctly seen by the others.

Also, there is no USB or external firewire device connected while trying to start up.

Remark: never had any problem with this Tiger volume, starting problem only occured yesterday AFTER installing Toast Titanium (which worked normally), shutting down and trying to start up again.

Nevertheless, some minor problems occured beforehand these last days: some apps didn't work anymore, like Safari, itunes, installer and UnrarX. But i don't know if it's linked.

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MacBook Pro :: Doesn't Boot Beyond The Grey Screen With Apple Icon And Spinning Wheel

Mar 20, 2012

My macbook pro doesn't boot beyond the grey screen with apple icon and spinning wheel.  I used the "Option" button to access the Disk Utility function and run Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions.  Should I restart my computer?

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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1

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Mac Mini :: Grey Screen With Spinning Gear

Mar 14, 2012

Has anyone exoerienced upon startup the Grey Screen with the Apple Logo, Spinning Gear and a Progress Bar? This is a sudden issue which just started and delays my startup to 4/5 minutes. My system worked fine till recently when this issue appeared: MacMini 2009(late) OSX(Lion)!

Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 128GB SSD, Data Doubler 750GB Drive

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Mac Mini :: The Computer Booted Up And Showed The Grey Apple Screen?

Nov 14, 2010

I recently bought a new Mac Mini with a 24 inch Philips display. When I connected the display and started up the computer, it booted up and showed the grey apple screen, but it never made it past that. On the screen it reads "cannot display this video mode, change computer display input to 1920x1080@60Hz." As you might have realized, I can't get onto the computer to do so because I cannot see what I am doing. This is extremely frustrating because I had my Mini hooked into my friend's tv and it worked perfectly right away and now I can't even get it to connect. Does anybody know any hotkeys/solutions to this problem?

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Mac Mini :: Intel Won't Boot - Grey Screen With Spinning Little Icon

Jul 18, 2009

I have a Mac Mini that my sister gave me because she said it stopped working. She said she wanted me to get all her photos off of it. Its a Model A1176 1.66/2X512/80/COMBO/AP/BT I tried playing with it and it powers up, shows the Apple on a grey screen with a spinning little icon.. It does that for about 30 sec and then turns off. I opened it up, took the hard drive out, put it into an external USB case and hooked it up to my Windows PC and loaded MacDrive 8 software. Got the drive to be recognized on the PC and backed up all her photos.

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OS X :: Trackpad Doesn't Respond To 4 Finger Touches?

Aug 18, 2009

so for the last 10 minutes I noticed my trackpad doesn't respond to a 4 finger touch. And I use Expose a lot so its annoying. It does 2 and 3 finger but not 4. What should I do?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Notebook Doesn't Respond After Upgrading?

Jun 14, 2012

I have a previous gen MacBook Pro (3-4 years old). I think it's 15 inch one. It had Snow Leopard installed until yesterday when I upgraded to Lion. It went smoothly, I downloaded it from the app store and followed it through. Then when I was installing iCloud it told me that I needed to upgrade iPhoto. So I went to the app store and bought the iPhoto and began downloading it. It was late so I just left the notebook plugged in overnight to do the download. 

So this morning I tried to use this computer and it doesn't seem to respond at all. The screen is black and I can't wake it up. how can I get it back to a working condition?

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ITunes :: System Doesn't Respond After Opening It

Jun 14, 2012

My system stops responding after opening iTunes(not always). This has happened twice with me. I had to shut the system down and re-start it again to make it work.

Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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MacBook Pro :: Keyboard Doesn't Respond - Back Light Still On?

Jan 2, 2011

So a friend spilled some liquids on his new macbook pro 13 5,5.Unibody The keyboard no longer worked, the hd was fried, so he gave it to me and switched to PC's . I replaced the HD, and connected an external keyboard.

Luckily nothing else was effected and it powered up. What I find strange is that the back light still works although NONE of the keys do. The power button and the trackpad still work as well.

I have accepted that I have to purchase a costly top case, but could i not just replace the keys?

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MacBook :: Won't Turn On No White IR Light And The Fan Doesn't Respond?

Mar 6, 2010

So this morning I woke up and went to press the power button of my Macbook, but nothing happened. I noticed that there is no white IR light and the fan doesn't respond. I checked the battery, it was at full. The power cable was also green when i plugged it into the Macbook. However, it still wouldn't turn on.

Just a general comment, I use the Macbook as a printer server and to browse the internet, so nothing intensive is forced onto the Macbook.So then I tried resetting the SMU, didn't work. I tried turning it on with only battery , and then with only power source, both didn't work either.I have never spilled anything on this macbook, never dropped it, smashed it, or abused it in any way. However, it is 2 years old and I never bought Applecare (Usually, if something is defective, it will show within the first 30 days). I assume it's a logic board failure, and it's going to cost around 700 to fix (which i'd rather just get a new macbook).

I was wondering if anybody know of a reason why the logic board broke, or if there is any remedies that i haven't tried yet?Also, I'm thinking of pawning it off on ebay and then save up and wait for the Macbook Pro refresh. Does anyone have an estimate on how much I can get for a broken Macbook (screen is fine, 4gb of ram (i might replace it w/ 2gb instead) 250 gb HD (might replace with 80gb HD instead), 2.0 ghz c2d (prbly useless cuz the logic board is fried)

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MacBook Pro :: Preference Doesn't Respond When Trying To Change Wallpaper?

Jun 19, 2012

suddently my system prefs doesn't respond when trying to change wallpaper on one of the 2 user desktops.  Other desktop works great.

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MacBook
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MacBook Air :: Can't Click On Any Of 3 Users / Trackpad Doesn't Respond

Jun 29, 2014

When I login, I see the following screen. I can't click on any of the 3 users - the track-pad doesn't respond. I have tried with an external mouse, the cursor moves around but wouldn't click, so this is not a trackpad issue. Holding down the SHIFT key doesn't work - the Safe Mode won't start. 

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Jun 18, 2014

Happened all of a sudden. I tried to restart, and now I am stuck at the login screen, as i can't type my password.

I suspect it to be some sort of accidentally triggered numlock like function.

When i hold down the fn key and pres 54 a symbol is entered (but i can't see which, as it is in my password box), and also when i hold fn and hit s and g simultaneously, the whole text is highlighted.

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), iOS 7.1.1

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Feb 2, 2012

Since my upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6, the "Mail 4.5" stop before getting automatically of all my mailboxes. I have to manually request a statement of my different accounts.Is there a way to slow the flow, because I feel that the server does not have time to respond to flow?

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mail 4.5, Mac OS X (10.6.8), No pb before with Mac OS X (10.5)

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May 6, 2012

The computer doesn't respond to the power button when pressed. (imac - no intel)

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Safari :: Why Appears Constantly Crash Messages About The Pages Doesn't Respond

May 31, 2012

Why safari doesn´t work well in Lion Mac OS X as on past versions as Snowleopard. Every time apears mesages talking about something like "the pages not respond"  and all my mac seem frezze a lot. 

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Safari does not work fine

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Dec 8, 2014

Double-click to edit a rule does not respond.  It will allow me to create a new rule but I cannot edit it once created.  I am using Outlook Mac 2011 Version 14.4.6.  My operating system is OS X 10.9.5. 

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iMac

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May 28, 2012

I recently updated to Lion Server 10.7.4 on my MacMini 5,3 (Mid 2011). Now whenever I use Lion Recovery (Ctrl-R at boot), the keyboard does not function. The mouse cursor moves around, but clicking the mouse button has no effect. I am unable to run any of the utilities (recovery, disk utility, etc.) and I am forced to press the power button to turn off the computer. 

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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May 9, 2012

my iMac doesn't startup, it stops in the grey apple and the spinning gear !!!

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jun 3, 2014

I was using my MacBook Pro , which I only bought a week ago , when the screen suddenly went black and the computer seemed to power down , when this happened it was on 40% battery , I plugged In the MagSafe it didn't seem to light but when I looked closely it was on but it was very dim and flashing green and orange .  When I put my ear to the case I can hear a faint noise.

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MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

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Sep 6, 2014

My apple user name and password haven't been changed at all for a long time. I have used it to access icloud and the itunes and everything.But suddenly the password doesn't work 'on my mac.' However it still works fine when I access icloud.com from my same computer. 

But when I try to "manage my account" from system preferences (icloud), it doesn't work. And also, when  I access the itunes store from my same computer it doesn't work. There are no error messages-- when I type in the password and press return it just reverts to the same page in which the password field is empty. 

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

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PowerPC :: Unable To Start Powerbook / Screen Went Black And Will Not Respond

Aug 31, 2009

I was just using my powerbook G4 12" when it "clicked", the screen went black and it will not respond. the power cable light is on, and I've tried another battery, but it does not turn on! the little light on the latch button that glows usually, is not on. What has happened to my Powerbook????! I don't have applecare but I imagine I will be calling Apple this morning unless someone can help here

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Oct 12, 2010

I have a MacBook Pro 2GHz Intel Core Duo, running OSX 10.6.4 and the latest iTunes. I used to burn audio CDs just fine and now it gives me error messages.

The first error was a "Medium write error." The second error said, "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand of disc or try burning at a slower speed."

I've tried two discs: TDK and Mitsubishi. Both don't work. It starts initializing and then immediately jumps to finishing, then ejects the disc with that message. I updated to the most recent version of iTunes and I still get the same problem.

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OS X :: After Working Fine, Suddenly, The Scanner Doesn't Want To Work?

Dec 6, 2009

I'm using the printer that came with my Mac when I bought it, last year. (Photosmart C4385 All-In-One)

After working fine, suddenly, the scanner doesn't want to work. Another computer in the house, a HP Desktop seems to work fine, but as far as my far superior Mac, I get a scan error message. this happens in both wireless and connected. The printer is working fine in both wireless and connected methods.

Worse, HP is no longer allowing for on-line support via chat for Mac users! Then when trying to call them, they say that their call centers are not available. It almost seems as if HP doesn't want to hassle with Mac related problems.

Are any of you having similar issues?

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Hardware :: Macbook Suddenly Shuts Off And Doesn't Power On Again

Mar 2, 2008

I've had my macbook for about 15 months. i noticed a while ago it had trouble turning off completely when running only on the battery. then a few weeks ago it shut itself off and wouldn't start up again. the power cord indicator was orange, but nothing worked. ordered a new battery, that didn't help. tried a different power cord - nada. i took it in to an apple repair shop and they said something about the internal power connector (i'm not a techy) and took 2 weeks to repair. i've had it back 3 weeks now and the same thing has happened. only this time there is no indicator light on any of the power adapters. and my partially charged batteries do not work on their own either.

any ideas? i don't want to keep fixing the same thing and every few weeks it keeps breaking again. i mean, what's the point in having the computer then, right??

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May 31, 2012

I have macbook air 11 inch. Yesterday, suddenly my built camera doesnt work.

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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Dec 26, 2008

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I've tried holding shift during startup - no effect.
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