Mac Pro :: Freeze - Hang During Startup
Apr 27, 2008
I have a mac pro running leopard (purchased in 2/08) and it was running beautifully for almost 2 months with no hangs, crashes or freezes. Then, for some reason, today when I turned it on, it would not boot. It would get to the apple logo, then just sit there for a few minutes, then reboot itself and the same thing would happen.
I pulled out the ethernet cable, unplugged all usb except keyboard/mouse and it would then (sometimes) boot into the system, log me in and present me with the UI. I then quickly performed a soft reboot and it would get to the desktop. However, I can only use it for anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes before it would completely lockup. The clock freezes, the mouse freezes and it just sits there forever. I have tried booting into Vista (BootCamp) and it also freezes before startup is complete....................
View 2 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
May 31, 2009
I bought a western digital passport hard drive last week. everything was working fine until yesterday. when trying to copy iMovie events to the drive, it hung, and iMovie crashed. Since that time, everytime I try to mount the drive, my finder hangs. I cannot eject the drive properly. I cannot access any old files. I can continue to use other applications, including flock, or tweetie, etc. but can't do anything with the drive.
I have tried searching the forums, (i'm not an advanced user). I have tried using disk utility, and it says; 'The disk ?Murtaza Malik HD? could not be unmounted' When I try to eject it says the drive is in use, and cannot be ejected. I was using the drive with time machine. I disabled that, and now time machine also hangs when i try to access it.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Sep 29, 2005
I recentlyªposted a question describing a problem I was having when viewing files in column view in the finder: when I click on a file, which would usually cause a pane to the right to open showing a preview of the item and information on the file, the finder hangs and I see an spinning disc. Just now I tried using the finder's Get
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 26, 2009
heavily cycled battery began to reveal age when low battery warning stopped appearing. next the battery revealed age by displaying incorrect charge status percentages. finally, the system froze (pointer did not move) so battery was replaced. system freeze continues to plague the Apple iBook G4 with 1.33 GHz PowerPC CPU and 1.25 GB of RAM. how to correct or just recover data from user folders
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 16, 2012
I've been having some strange occurances on my 2007 MacPro (2,1) where, in certain apps, the Beach Ball of Death will appear and the app will freeze or hang. I can be using the app for some time and perhaps do one thing, and the BBOD appears, the app hangs and the only way out is to Force Quit.It has even happened once or twice with Finder which forces a reboot.The app it tends to hang most in is Toast, especially when I go to burn a DVD. It will start the burn process, then just hang (the optical drive will start to spin up-- as if to start the burn-- then spin down and the BBOD appears. A Force Quit ensues.I can try to burn again and again but no luck, unless I restart the Mac Pro. Then it will work, no problem.But it has also hung using Mail, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop and especially Time Machine.I've gone as far as disconnecting Time Machine drive just to see if it is the culprit, as the majority of the initial hangs seemed to be associated with seeing the TM menu "clock" spinning, indicative of TM is doing a backup. Except the backup is taking forever and apps begin to BBOD as it spins.I can check the TM Buddy widget, which just says: "Starting standard backup Backing up to: /Volumes/TM Backups/ Backups. backupdb". Normally there's a lot more information than these couple of lines, especially if TM has been going a while.If I try to stop TM using the TM pulldown menu, the BBOD appears and it hangs, yet the clock icon continues to spin. And if I try to Force Quit, it hangs (and on one or two occasions, the Finder has even showed a BBOD and hung.And while I can move the cursor and click around the Desktop, there is no response.)If I click on an app in the Dock, then the icon freezes in the Dock at its Magnification position and I can do nothing to make it go back. Then I usually just do a reboot and all is well for a while.
I did add two extra Gigs of SDRAM about two weeks ago (from Crucial) and no problem.I did use Tech Tool Pro 5 and tested the Memory, which tested okay. Also, I can check Volume Structures with Tech Tool 5 on the main drive and it says everything is good. (I have two internal spare drives and one external firewire 1.5 TB G-RAID) I've used Disk Utility on the OS drive and checked Verify Disk on the Startup Drive and the others and after awhile, it says the hard drive(s) seem to be okay. I've even ran Apple Jack to see if cleaning things up would help but no dice.The only software I've added (on Monday and the problem started Monday) was a Seagate Diagnostic program to test some external USB Seagate GoFlex archive drives-- these are not always connected or mounted to the Mac Pro. When I started experiencing problems and it crashed or hung several times on Monday-- I trashed the Seagate Diagnostic program.The TM has also been shut down and unplugged as I tended to see more hangs and BBOD when it was in a backup process.The first TM backup of the day goes smoothly.An hour later, when it automatically begins another backup, the TM clock icon spins forever and trouble ensues as noted above)I'm wondering if it is my main Macintosh drive.It is a 250 GB drive, about 70% full and has worked fine until now.
Info:
MacPro (June 07), Mac OS X (10.5.6), Duo Core 2.66 Ghz, G-RAID @ 1.5 TB
View 9 Replies
View Related
Mar 20, 2010
Running a MBP (mid 2009) 2.26GHz on OSX Leopard 10.5.8. I am trying to boot from the Startup disk (OSX Leopard 10.5.2) and when I stick it in a restart, I hold C and it hangs on the screen before where the Apple logo would appear normally, as if it's trying to load from the startup disk. The disk spins up and I hear it, but it just hangs there. Only thing I can do is a hard restart with the power button.
I have started from the disk before, so I know it worked in the past. Also, OSX recognizes the disk when I'm logged in and I can even run the Installer (ask you to restart though).
I recently turned on FileVault (have restarted multiple times since then) but not sure if this has anything to do with it. I am trying to set a password for the Firmware so someone can't reformat without a pw.
View 7 Replies
View Related
Feb 10, 2010
my windows side of my macbook pro 2.4 GHz, Intel core 2 duo, 3 gigs ram ddr2sd, now enjoys freezing at start up. Some sites have mentioned that it is an issue of software incompatibility in drivers, some have said that my windows system files are corrupt, and others just say give up and rejoin the partition, erase old data and start anew. I would have liked to avoid the last one but it got the point where nothing worked.So! I have tried booting in safe mode, (to maybe run checkdisk etc) I got onto desktop to choose yes/no for system restore and then it would randomly freeze and cause me to have to turn the power off manually. Safemode now freezes when loading mup.sys
View 6 Replies
View Related
Mar 19, 2012
Several times in the last few days the startup page has frozen. Following the instructions in the little instruction book I power down by holding the power button, wait a few seconds, then power back up while holding down the option key, and with all peripherals disconnected. I get a screen with two icons, "Macintosh HD" and "Recovery HD". The instructions say, "click the internal flash drive icon." Assuming that means the "Macintosh HD" icon, I click on that. That brings up a new startup page. Usually that is not frozen and I can sign in. Occasionally this second startup page is frozen too, so I repeat the power+option powerup. Whenever I have to resort to the second try I get an unfrozen startup page.Â
Once signed in I go to System Preferences and click on Startup Disk. Always after a frozen startup page I find this preference unlocked and the "Macintosh HD OS X 10.7.3" highlighted. I click on the icon, lock the preference again, and all works fine for the next one or two startups, then I get the frozen startup page again. One time on the power+option powerup I clicked on the "Recovery HD" icon rather that the "Macintosh HD" icon. All I got then was the blank Apple logo page with the revolving gear going on interminably. After several minutes I gave up on seeing what that would produce.Â
Info:
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Dec 8, 2014
my computer likes to freeze during startup (at the apple logo, the loading wheel sometimes stops without warning). Secondly, when I tried to use my DVD drive today, at least one DVD and one CD were ejected. The one CD I tried made a clicking sound prior to ejecting. The 2nd DVD took a long time to load, and the 3rd one loaded without fail. Could this issue be related to the DVDs specifically, or is that the drive beginning to fail? I tried running the Apple Hardware Test while I was at home, but it stated that everything worked fine…I can diagnose my computer before I go to the genius bar, I just don’t want to have my laptop overheat [Emeryville and Berkeley never have availability anymore, so, when I get home for break, I’m going to take it to a store with availability..The last laptop I had (mid 2004 iBook) had a fan issue, which causes it to overheat, and shutdown unexpectedly. It still barely even works, but something caused some major screen damage to it as well.
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 20, 2010
My Macbook has started to freeze up constantly after startup, applications are non-responsive. I can still move the mouse around the screen when this happens but the pointer soon turns into the beach-ball icon and after 5 minutes things go back to normal but only for a minute or two before everything starts freezing up again. There is a clicking noise coming from inside the mac whenever this happens.I have run a virus check which reported no infections and i have uninstalled all programs installed since the problem occurred but to no avail.
View 5 Replies
View Related
May 14, 2012
I have a 2007 MacBookPro. shortly after installing Lion 10.7.3 and VectorWorks 2011 I started getting vertical blue and black lines across my screen on startup. They remain with in the apple while the computer boots and the everything freezes. I tried all of the usual fixes, recovery, safe boot, reset PRAM, battery, etc.When I tried to boot of a system disc I get a message sating that I need to restart my computer. Upon restart same problem occurs. 2 months ago I took the whole thing apart and cleaned out the guts. Reconnecting all cables back together, I came across, what I think is the camera cable. Since my camera has been erratic, i decided to test the problem with it connected and then disconnected. Connected same problem. Once i unplugged the camera everything went back to normal, until now. The same problem returned. I cleaned out the guts again. This time I unplugged the hard drive to try and boot off the C drive, but still get the same problem. This morning It decided to boot up. I was able to copy my essential files onto an external drive.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jun 26, 2009
I recently noticed that my DVD drives "hang" when I don't use them for extended periods of time, when I press the open tray button on the keyboard (or use the icon on the menu bar) the drive tries to open (I can hear the tray pull out slightly) but then it doesn't fully extend the tray (bay door on the chassis slightly open).
A reboot will not fix this issue but a complete shutdown of the system and power-up will, it is the same for both of my SATA drives.
Anyone else has experienced this issue in their system?
View 6 Replies
View Related
Apr 6, 2010
My primary machine went down today. Came home from work, went to wake it from sleep, it was unresponsive, black screen, power light constant. Checked all connections, tried powering off, waiting, reboot, grey pinwheel on boot from HDD. Tried booting from OS install DVD, same issue.
Removed all extra RAM, HDD's. Left standard ram and standard drive blank in computer, tried to boot from SL install dvd, hangs at same point. You can hear the DVD spin up, the pinwheel spins and then hangs after a while. I have tried a SMC reset. Zapping PRAM etc.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 25, 2008
It's been happening for a while now and I had hoped 10.5.3 would fix. When I choose to restart or shutdown, 90% of the time it hangs on grey screen after logging out and I have to hold down power button to shutdown. No apps hanging. Also have problem where when I open the cover to bring my MBA out of standby mode, I'll be presented with the logon screen. I'll type my password and my screen goes blank like it's gone back to sleep but the power light is fully lit. Have to close cover, wait till it goes on standby, then open cover to bring up password logon again. Should I reinstall OS X again?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Oct 16, 2009
My SL was working perfectly until yesterday. I got my late 08 UMBP back from AppleCare without any replacement (see post here). They just run a kind of apple test suit on an external OSX, I guess they booted from a firewire disk.
Anyway, now I getting very often a system hang with a spinning wheel. When I try to repair permissions in the Disk Utility, the progress it stays like 10 minutes on the same place at the very beginning, then spinning wheel again then the system doesn't react. I can move the mouse that's all.
View 16 Replies
View Related
Mar 26, 2010
I don't know what's happened, I restarted my mac and it started doing this: [URL] It's really odd and it happens repetedly and never stops.
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 24, 2010
Long story, but basically I got an "invalid sibling error" on my intel IMac and was told the best fix was to zero the HD and reinstall. I did this and got Leopard running. Now it hangs while I try to update to 5.10.8. I downloaded the combo update from Apple after it failing through system update.
I'm not sure what the issue could be. I've verified the disk, checked it's smart status is ok and run the hardware test from the install disk.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Aug 20, 2010
My mac hangs at login after sleep. Hangs so long that i cant stand to wait and shut it down with the powerbutton. The mac is connected to an AD-server and my account is defined as a mobile account. (also admin)
The strange thing is that we have several other macs and users with the same configuration and I havent heard any complaints from them.
The problem comes about every other day.Se attached picture for the "hang-screen"
Snow Leopard 10.6.4, connected via ethernet, disk permisions repaired and so on.
View 5 Replies
View Related
May 18, 2009
Not quite sure what to do.Installed 10.5.7 on my iMac and my Air with no issues.Was running the update onto one of my mac minis and it hung in the "Running Installer Script" bit. After an hour I decided to power cycle which it had no issues with. When I check the OS now it says it is on 10.5.7. but I'm not sure how to confirm that the update has been completed correctly.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 23, 2012
When adding a bookmark either by dragging to the bookmark bar or using Bookmarks tabs, Safari beachballs.I have to force quit.Just had a new hard drive installed from the Genius Bar. Running OSx10.6.8 .Problem started as soon as I got it home and restored from an external hard drive. Downloaded Safari 5.1.4 and still have the problem.Â
Info:
macbook pro
View 1 Replies
View Related
Apr 30, 2012
why does safari hang and slowdown with lion?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jun 17, 2012
Slideshow keeps hanging on my iMac. I have updated the app, but still not working. It seems to hang on the same photo, does that make it a problem with that particular file?
Info:
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Oct 21, 2010
Why are iTunes and Safari the two applications I have ever used that are most likely to hang and/or crash? I mean, what's so hard for Apple to make these two very heavily used applications stable?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 28, 2009
Mac Mail is causing OSX to hang when shutting down
4 out of 5 mail accounts are IMAP
Is there anything I can do to correct the hang
View 2 Replies
View Related
Mar 16, 2010
First the specifics: I have a MacPro, Version 10.6.2 for OSX. I did the latest update that showed for Safari. It went to reboot and just sat there and hung. I waited for 10 minutes, then manually restarted the Mac. It came up, but then when I went to open Mail, I got an error that it couldn't open. I then clicked on ok, and tried to open another app, and it wouldn't open. I tried with several apps with the same result. I downloaded the MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.2.dmg and ran it with no problems, and the Apps will still not open?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 7, 2008
I'm having a major problem with Photoshop CS3. After a hang up it launches but hangs up on trying to open any file on my HD. I've tried reinstalling Photoshop, also unistalling it an performing a clean install (not of all the CS3 suite - just Photoshop), I've deleted preferences, I've created a new user and it works OK, so I tried copying the preferences (settings, Paths & plist) and pasting them into my current user prefs, but it does not work. I've run Disk Utility and repaired permissions. Still doesn't work. I'm a designer and need to have this programme up and running fast since I've got work to give in. I'm on a G5 Dual Proc running Tiger 10.4.11.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Apr 28, 2012
After "upgrading" to Lion, my MacPro refuses to complete either a Restart or Shut Down cycle. How can I discover what is hanging up the process? System: MacPro1,1; 8GB RAM, OS X 10.7.3, 4x2TB internal drives, all software updates applied. Â
Info:
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 14, 2012
I've update to 10.7.4, and ever since my iCal and Mail get the beach cursor - I've waited an hour and longer and then forced quit them, after that they work for a few minutes (Mail longer, iCal until you create or change an item). I realise that Spotlight is reindexing (since this morning, and still saying "estimating indexing time".
Info:
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
View 4 Replies
View Related
May 18, 2012
lol stupid as it is x3 crash x sonw n x lion dum x lion uillity
Info:
macbook 4.1, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jun 20, 2012
Occassionally the web browsers on my system will hang (indefinetly) when trying to load pages, I am connected to the internet and this issue doesnt occurr on my PC so I am assuming the problem resides on my mac, screenshot attached, Â
Info:
15, Mac OS X (10.7)
View 3 Replies
View Related
