Mac Pro :: Mac Pro Won't Start From Sleep/ Occasionally Won't Start
Apr 6, 2009
My lovely pro has decided that occasionally it doesn't like the idea of starting from sleep and sometimes won't boot up.
The fan runs at full blast (I think it's the CPU fan), a black screen and the power button on the front glows. I don't have any external drives attached, no stat programs running in the background except little snitch. Generally I close all programs before I leave my desk. After I hard reboot, I get a "do you want to send this to apple?" dialogue, with the errors pointing to the nvidia 8800gt. I don't have the full detail of the error box, I'll post it next time it happens.
I've zapped the pram, run the apple diagnostic and unplugged everything to reset the SMC or whatever it is.
About 1/2 of my wakes from sleep, and about 1 in 4 times when starting exhibit this.
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Mar 26, 2012
So as the title says when I boot up my iMac, on occasion, it seems to have the "Updating" Status bar, then the mac boots normally, then the sound is disabled. As I said though this dose not happed all the time but when it dose the only way to fix it is by rebooting the iMac once again. Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MBSoftware Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Has Parallels Desktop Installed
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Occasionally, this iMac starts, and it will say "safe boot" in the login screen, and I have not done anything to make it do that. I do not have a sticky shift key, as far as I can tell.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 27" 2.7GHz Quad i5 12GB mem 1TB
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Sep 12, 2014
My 2011 11 inch macbook air occasionally won't start up after I put it to sleep. I will plug it in and it will be fully charged however nothing will happen if I press the power button. The only thing that happens is the macbook makes a weird noise when the power button is pressed. I am not sure how to describe it but it sounds like a cross between a clicking and pinging noise. It almost sounds like the fan is trying to start up but can't. The strangest part is that this problem has happened twice. In both instances I have left the macbook alone and unplugged for 3 to 4 days without trying to start it up. Both times I have plugged it in after this hiatus and it is has started up and worked fine.
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Dec 27, 2007
I am the original owner of a Power mac G5 dual 2.0 I purchased this machine in april of 2004 and it has been working nearly non stop ever since. Recently I put it into sleep mode and when I came back it had powered down and would not start up. I assume it's the power supply and I would like to know if there is anyway to tell what type of power supply and model thereof without tearing down the machine.
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Powermac G5 Dual 2.0
Mac OS X (10.4.9)
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Apr 26, 2012
My iMac won't start up, or wake from sleep. I've tried everything, except for reinstalling the SO-DIMM memory modules. Still, my iMac will not wake up. Turning it on, you can hear the fan run, but the display stays dark.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 30, 2012
My macbook pro is only a month old, and I've done nothing to it besides write documents and use facebook. Every time I close the lid so the computer can "sleep" it does, but when I open the lid back up, it refuses to wake up. My friend has the same computer and automatically her screen lights up when she opens the lid from sleep. My screen will stay black up to 10 minutes sometimes. Why is this happening? Should I bring it in to Apple? Also, when I shut my computer down, starting it up is another hassel in itself. The screen goes white like it's suppose to, but only for a split second. The apple in the center never shows up, and the screen just goes black. It's very aggravating and I feel like I'm the one with the only messed up mac.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 14, 2012
My computer won't turn on. Earlier today while playin music it just paused itself. I minute later it resumed. Then tonight it just shut off instead of sleeping and now it won't start. All I can get if I'm lucky is the start up chime and a super quick flash of a white screen.
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MacBook Pro
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Oct 16, 2008
[URL] input Music into vent and whenever I press "start" I either Get an Error Saying "cannot start Jack server, Please Check preferences or retry after a system reboot" or "Fatal error has occurred shutting down." and I reinstalled it and Used the default preferences
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Mar 8, 2009
First off, let me explain the position I am in. I have the newest 13in MacBook with a 2.4Ghz hard drive. I installed Windows Vista on it recently after I got it. Many times while using Vista, all audio would stop and be replaced with crackling sounds. This would continue until I restarted. I tried going to Dell, downloading drivers for the Broadcom 802.11n WiFi Adapters and installing those, but that caused a worse problem. Windows can no longer find any networks, and when I select the Broadcom WiFi Adapters in Device Manager, it says "This device cannot start." and says it's Code 10 or something.
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Apr 10, 2012
My iMac does not start up as usual. I now get a ' start up disk is full. You need to make space available on your start up disk by deleting files' message. Â I am able to key my log on password however I just get the purple galaxy screen with no desktop.Â
If I try to use the keyboard I get a tone when pressing the keys. Â
Has worked perfectly well up until I got this dusk full message. Â
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Jun 21, 2012
computer won't start. tried unplugging and holding in start button. After about a half hour and unplugging a few times, finally got it going. Imac G5
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iMac, MacOS X (10.5)
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Apr 8, 2012
My macbook takes ages to start not sure why
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jul 18, 2010
This morning, I synced my iPod with my MacBook and upon completion and permission to disconnect the device, I pulled out the USB cord. At that point the computer instantly turned itself off, and when I hit the power button, I could hear the system trying to start up, but the screen remained black and the sleep light glowed continuously. I unplugged the charger, took out the battery and put it back in, and tried all the troubleshooting tips under the Apple Support guide with no success. I also discovered that when I closed the laptop while it was "on," it would seem to boot up a little more before returning to the black screen. I left it alone for a few hours, and when I tried again to turn it on, it booted up normally and as I was searching for updates, it shut down again as it had earlier.
Does anyone have anything for me to try? I don't want to have to take it into a shop because I can just barely afford to, but I need this computer! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :-)
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May 26, 2012
My computer won't start, the monitor dosn't come on, and the sleep light blinks constantly.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 6, 2012
My computer is a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Version 10.7.3, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 with 4GB memory. Start-up has become somewhat erratic. Consistently, if I close the lid on the computer it won't restart when I reopen it. I'll have to hold the power button down for about 15 seconds, let up and then press it again. Sometimes restarting after a shutdown the computer will go through the long start-up I associate with a crash shutdown. Sometimes login start-up items don't start up. Sometimes I have to click somewhere on the screen to make the menu bar at the top of the screen visible. Overall, unexpected things keep happening. Although I don't think it probably relates, Chrome is my primary browser.
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Jun 12, 2012
Our 2011 iMac with SSD takes 2:15 (two minutes and fifteen seconds) to start up. Start up on a SSD should be faster. OS X version 10.7.4 and applications are on the SSD. Any suggestions for correcting this lack of speedy start up?
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Mac OS X (10.7.4), 3.4 GHz Intel i7, 16 GB DDR3
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Aug 23, 2014
Macbook Pro can't start up beyond the grey start up screen. There's a spinning wheel and bar that moves to 1/4 before Macbook Pro shuts down automatically.
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MacBook Pro
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Sep 19, 2010
I have the app called "SimpleTask" set to start-up when i turn my Mac on. The icon is just in the top taskbar. The problem is that when i turn my Mac on the window of the app comes up on my desktop and then i have to manually minimize it every time. Is there a way to have it start-up minimized in the taskbar from the start so i dont have to do it manually? There is no option for this in the preferences. There has to be a way to do it thou.
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May 1, 2012
A black line about 3/8 of an inch thick. To stop this I need to turn off computer and start it up again. This happens half the time I wake it up
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Dec 14, 2010
I am not 100% sure what the offical name of the start up noise is when you turn on your Macbook, however that is all I am geeting when I turn it on. I push the power button, it makes that start up noise of the disc drive... sits... and makes the noise again... sits... makes the noise again and so on and so on. The screen doesnt change at all, just blackness. I was able to start it up once with the start up disc and I thought that was the fix, so before going to sleep I powered down. Woke up the next morning same old bs AND it will not start up off the disc again. Another time after letting it sit and try to boot up for awhile (30mins) it finally did! However after 20-30 mins the screen kind of flickered and then everything froze. Can't get it to turn on at all now. Just that noise over and over and over and over again.
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Jun 9, 2009
my mac book will not re-start any more! these are the messages i get any no what the problem is and how to fix it?
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Jun 25, 2009
So I already put a CD in when my Mac froze and I restarted it. I tried to turn it on and I just get a blank screen while it makes a very loud noise. Turned it off then on, then a blinking folder with question mark. All advice says to run off the CD but I can't put a CD in since my CD won't eject. I also pressed shift, nothing. My hard drive crashed earlier this year and they replaced it, what do I do? I took my CD out by pressing down the trackpad button, installed disk cd, but nothing. Just a blank screen and a lot of noise.
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Apr 26, 2012
I have never had any electrical good not work straight from the box. I never expected that from an Apple product yet my brand new 27" Imac shows no sign of life. No noise, no lights, nothing
Info:iMac
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Dec 22, 2010
I can control what starts up on my iMac as a means to speed up the load time as in Windows?
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Mar 4, 2009
I can't seem to get my Macbook to start up, it rarely gets past the load up screen but when I ran disk utility from the install CD it said the drive is fine, I can't seem to get it to start in safe mode either. I've been having some trouble with the thing lately and know it's time to replace the HD but i'd like to get it running while I order a new one and wait for it to get here. It would also be nice to move a few files to my external HD to.
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Aug 14, 2009
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Sep 27, 2009
This evening while surfing the net my 2 year old 15" mbp froze. I couldn't force quit or anything and had to result to holding the power button down to shut it off. When I turned it on again it was on the white screen with the apple and spinning circle ( not the beach ball) for more than 10 minutes before it moved on to the login screen. I was able to enter my password. After entering my pw it moved onto a blue screen with the beachball for more than 15 minutes now. what might be wrong or better yet how to fix it?
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Oct 7, 2009
After using my MacBook for about 15 min, it starts to get very hot. Is this normal or should I take it in? It is almost 2 years old, I have Leopard 10.5.8, and this has just started about a month ago. I do have the extended warranty on it, so I know it doesn't hurt to make an appt at the Genius Bar, but I wanted to hear from you if I should go down there or not waste anyone's time!
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