After installing OS 10.6.3 on my MacPro 1,1, I tried to update to 10.6.8 and then 10.6.5 and got an Installation Failure warning. I have since use Disc First Aid to correct system permissions, and still have Installation Failure. Have tried multiple times, same result.HD is 1 TB and less than 1/3 full.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
s title says, the little application that works fine under leopard "mirage" which would make your dock transparent doesnt wor under SL it just tells me instalation failure anyone know how to fix that?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhile installing windows 7 via bootcamp tonight, I suffered a power failure a minute or two into installation. Upon reboot, I have only a black screen with flashing curse. I have attempted to reboot in safe mode, recovery mode and diagnostic mode, but I think the machine is not recognizing the keyboard.
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 2014 21.5" Fusion Drive
After trying several times to upgrade to Snow Leopard and finding out, per a post here to the community, that my MacBook had a CD reader instead instead of a CD/DVD reader (you can see the whole drama here [url]..
'AmazonBasics USB 2.0 8x DVD Writer External Optical Drive (Black)' by AmazonBasics USB 2.0 External Slim DVD Writer
and tried to upgrade to Snow Leopard from that.Everything was going great - until the two minute mark. And then the external DVD reader kept spitting out the DVD. I kept putting it back in and trying it again.
After about 10 minutes of this, I restarted the computer. It started and got the flashing question mark sign. I started the DVD reader again, and after probably 20 minutes, it started installing SNow Leopard again. And probably at the two minute mark, I got the error message "An error occurred while installing Mac OS X."Everything is siting silently now. There's an error message and a spinning wheel on my screen. The reader is silent.
I'm convinced this is a power issue - the DVD reader/player is drawing power from the Mac, but obviously, it's not enough. A search of the house has found no power adapter that works with this DVD player. I'll be going to Radio Shack tomorrow and hoping against hope they have something. And I have an appointment at the genius bar at the Apple STar on Saturday.
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I installed 10.7.4 on an iMac that was running an 10.7.3, and which was updated only last weekend. After 10.7.4, the computer indicated I had to reboot. after the reboot, I hear the chimes, then only a gray screen. Nothing else. Tried safe mode by holding down shift key after chimes, but problem persists.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install OS X Yosemite but its giving me error "Security Violation: OS X Yosemite installation has been blocked by IT until Cisco's applications and tools have been validated " although this device belongs to me and have installed Cisco Anyconnect but uninstalled it but no sucess and other thing is MDM Profile attaching the screenshot for reference.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an old release of windows 7 installed via bootcamp on my macbook pro and it works fine and great. However I want to install a newer release and I am not sure what way it should be done. Can I simply run the set up in my current windows 7 installation and install the new release this way? or would I have to format the bootcamp partition and go through the bootcamp assistant again?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to help a friend fix his MacBook (white plastic) which has the folder with the question mark issue. I figured I'd do a clean install of Leopard but when the installation disk boots, it says it cannot detect Tiger which is necessary for the upgrade. I tried erasing the partition, but it gives me an error and stops the operation.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMacbook Pro won't boot. Symptoms preceding failure included failure to open Firefox. When trying to cold boot I can get as far as the start-up sound, the Apple logo, and the spinning whieel (spins for a bit but not for very long) and then major failure. Not running Liom.
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imac 10.1, Mac OS X (10.6.2), also have macbook pro running os 10.5
I am trying to follow the following guide to do a triple boot, but I am stuck in Windows 7 installation
triple boot snow leopard, windows 7, & ubuntu
I have done the following:
1. Did a clean installation of OS X Snow Leopard on hard drive (Not yet partitioned the hard drive)
2. Installed rEFIt
I am not sure what the poster means by making sure it works by pressing the option button. I am assuming it means that I will be able to see the options I can choose when I press option? (I do see options to pick either "Hard Drive" or whatever disc in the DVD)
3. Partitioned 30 GB (or was it 40 GB? x.x I forgot sorry) space in Boot Camp Assistant for Windows installation. Chose the option to install Windows later.
4. Inserted OS X Snow Leopard installation disc and boot from there.
5. Opened up the Disk Utility and partitioned a hard drive (called Hard Drive_2) via the Partition section as instructed by the guide. Formatted in MAc OS Extended (Journaled)
So now, in that area I see "Hard Drive", "Hard Drive_2" and "BOOT CAMP" (so I am assuming that is what the poster meant by "3 partitions".
6. Restarted the computer with Windows installation disc.
Problems occur right here:
Problem 1: I do not see anything called "C something" as the poster said. But I do see something called "Boot Camp"
Problem 2: All the partitions that are available says that "Windows 7 can't be installed". So my question is am I supposed to "delete" a specific partition to install it?
I have pictures of the screen which I will upload later if this isn't clear enough.
Question: I already have snow leopard installed on my iMac. But can I still do a CLEAN snow leopard installation onto my imac even though snow leopard is already installed?
I tried it just now like twice but I got the spinning wheel of death. It wouldn't go pass the apple sign and spinning wheel.
Does anyone know the exact name and part numbers for Wireless upgrade kits for the following machines:
G5 Dual 2.0 ghz - (main board has 8 slots for RAM upgrade)
Mac Pro Quad 3.0ghz
I've been searching around in circles trying to find this out and I'm just getting no where!
how to obtain a bigger memory for my imac so that I can upgrade to OSX LIon and then to icloud? My imac currently has 1 Gb memory and I need 2 Gb apparently. Apple can no longer supply a 2 Gb memory. I will need to knowe hwre to buy a suitable memory and how to change it.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 1 Gb memory
I am kicking around between upgrading video card in my 1st gen Mac Pro (2 x 2.66 dual core, 8gb ram) from 7300 Gt to ati 4870 vs. upgrading to a newer system altogether...
Newer MP has 2 x 2.66 quad cores, 12 gb ram with the 4870 card.) What kind of improved performance might I really expect or even notice when using photoshop, light video editing, 3d graphics.
I have not included costs because I want to focus on the performance boosts sans cost for the purpose of this discussion.
I have an iMac with Mac OSX 10.6.8 and 2.4 GH2 Intel Core 2 Duo processor.I want to upgrade to Lion so that I can use iCloud to share documents with my iPad.Do I have to upgrade to Snow Leopard first or can I upgrade directly to Lion?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have a two-month old MacBook Pro at version 10.5.6 and have successfully done software updates several times. I have access to the internet over an Apple Airport via a cable modem.
Recently, I noticed that all my software updates fail with the following dialog:Software Update can�t connect to the update server. Make sure you�re connected to the Internet, then try again.The console reports the following:2/14/09 7:32:01 PM Software Update[1467] Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1004 UserInfo=0x8b0f80 "can�t connect to host" I searched on the net and found that others have had this problem on the net and followed their suggested advice (to no avail) to delete com.apple.softwareupdate plist in ~user/Library/Preferences/~user/Library/Preferences/ByHost/Library/Preferences/
I have also run Onyx & Yasu. But that did not help either.
Finally, we have another MacBook Pro - about 1.5 years old that is not having this problem.
Does anyone have any recommendations which would allow me to successfully perform updates?
I've recently attempted to install 2 sticks of 2GB RAM into my MacBook Pro, but unfortunately had jammed one stick in the lower RAM compartment (Apparently I forgot to enter it at 45�) and had a rough time getting it out.
The RAM stick is busted and had to replace it, but I'm quite sure the slot might suffered a bit.
What are the signs of RAM failure?
I have an older 15" G4 Powerbook (before the recalled Powerbooks with the RAM slot failures) that has recently been experiencing some speed issues. To my dismay, when I checked my 'About This Mac...' I no longer had 1GB of RAM, only a lowly 512 MB. Tonight I sat down and started swapping and removing my two sticks of RAM and as it turns out, something is up.
With a 512 stick in the lower slot, System Profiler tells me I have 512 MB of RAM and that the upper slot is empty. When I put the other stick in the upper slot (leaving the lower one in), System Profiler now says I have 512 MB of RAM and that the lower slot is empty. Does this look to be a (out of warranty) logic board failure? Is there anything else I can try to do? On a related note, when removing the screws from the RAM panel on the bottom of my PB, one screw fell into my Powerbook, never to be seen again. Is this going to cause any problems down the line?
The string of problems I've encountered started a few days ago. I normally let my imac go to sleep by itself but, on this occasion I told it to sleep via the apple menu. When I awoke the imac the screen was frozen. No mouse movement, no clock movement, nothing. At this point I turned the power off and back on again. It didn't get past the white screen (before the gray with apple logo). I then tried resetting the PRAM, booting in safe mode, and booting from my os disc. Nothing worked.
After several tens of tries it magically booted. It stayed active long enough for me to back up all my data (transferring at least 100GB), reformat the hdd, reinstall leapord, transfer data back, and use it until I let it sleep again.
I've been having intermittent connection problems with Comcast since February. Comcast can't seem to diagnose or solve the problem. Each time they get my connection back up, it goes down again a few days or weeks later.
I switched to Mac last August, with little difficulty. Yesterday, after my connection went down *again*, a "Mac expert" at Comcast told me that this happens with him a lot too. He said that it may be something I just have to live with, implying that it was a problem with Mac users.
Well, I don't have to just live with it, and I've decided to cancel my Comcast subscription if their last fix (a new router/modem) doesn't hold up. But I'm curious, has anyone here ever heard of such a thing? The excuse doesn't make sense to me, since I didn't have connection problems for the first six months I had my Mac. But in February, Comcast switched me to new (better!) servers. I wonder if that's the issue.
I have been a Mac convert for the last 18 months and am the proud owner of a Macbook 4.1 Dual Core, 2.4GHz using MAC OSX v 10.5.8. For no apparent reason, neither the Keyboard or the Touchpad respond and I end up using a Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keyboard which work perfectly ok. To make matters worse, this issue comes and go's without warning. I can go two months with everything ok, then suddenly it all stops working and then suddenly it's all ok again. It is almost as if there is a way of disabling these functions which I have inadvertently done. I have re-loaded the operating system which has not achieved anything.
View 1 Replies View RelatedStupidly installed this: [URL] wanting better performance from my Nvidia 8600M GT 512Mb. Was asked to restart after install & wouldn't boot (only getting the grey then blue screen in 10.6.2) Am now unable to boot up in anything other than Safemode. While installing update is gives the option to revert, tried this in safe mode but it ends in a fail. If it can revert then somewhere is a backup of the original driver yeah? Where is it & can restore it manually/rename it as the original? Tried to use TimeMachine but won't boot for me in Safemode.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have lost two Superdrives, and now this new one is acting up. I am getting the following error message after the verification has started:This disc can't be verified and might be unreliable. Try again using a new blank disc (error code 0x80020063). Could not open the data fork of "<unable to get file path>" (-43).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI used SuperDuper to create a mirror image of my SSD boot drive on one of the partitions on the external drive. Thinking it wise to actually check to see if the partition would boot, I used System Preferences to point to the new boot drive and restarted the ol' 2008 8x2.8 Mac Pro.
All seemed well with the startup from the new boot device. But when I tried to go to System Preferences on this system, the app failed without ever initializing a window.
My problem is that in a morning when i turn on my mac G5, it lights and then fade and also make a sound like PAC.
But is it from the power supply and also how to avoid this accident.
I just send it to the seller Apple to repair it, but i need to wait, maybe got it within 1 or 2 weeks.
my Second problem is that if at night, i let my mac G5 auto boot, anyone can tell me if it may got this problem same the first one when my G5 turn on by itself.
Intel Mac Pro with Snow Leopard, 4 internal 2tb drives configured as a RAID 5 using the Apple RAID card. One of the four disks, always the same one (#4) occasionally drops out of the RAID and becomes a roaming disk instead of a spare. I get an error message from RAID utility telling me the array has failed, and when I look in the utility, the naughty disk isn't visible. Only disks 1 through 3. If I restart the machine the 4th disk appears but is listed as roaming. I can use the pull down menu to "Make Spare", thus reassigning disk 4 to the RAID set. It takes several days to re-establish itself as part of the RAID.
But then a few days later the same disk drops out of the RAID again. Is this a hardware problem with the RAID card? Or is there a software fix for this behavior?
cannot get Migrate from PC to iMac working.The iMac can see shared folders on PC, but the PC cannot connect to the iMac.Both machines share wired router. I can ping from each machine to the other, the PC sees the iMac in the workgroup but cannot connect.Â
I need Migrate to bring over 4 Outlook Express folders (mailboxes) that were left out after two attempts by the apple store to migrate my doc's, photos and email. There is a utility called "Belkin Switch-to-Mac" on both machines.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), From XP sp3 to new iMac
so i got my 3 week old mbp 15 (which i dropped and dented) replaced today due to kernel panic/ram failure/apple store only had 1 memory stick in stock...
my question is, what causes ram failure? i dont want it to happen again, i didnt install any 3rd party ram.
My 2.33GHz C2D MacBook Pro running 10.6.3 has suddenly decided it doesn't have an optical drive installed!
If I put a CD or DVD in the drive it will pull it in, spin but fail to recognise the disc. It is impossible to eject the inserted disc by any means - except by using a piece of cardboard to stop it spinning after a restart. I have tried data, audio and video CDs/DVDs.
System Profiler says I only have a hard drive attached to Serial-ATA and have no Disc Burning devices installed.
Has the optical drive failed? If so why does it still spin up if the computer doesn't know the drive is there? Does the fault lie elsewhere?
Following my internal startup disk failure (System v. 10.5.8) on a G5 (mid-2004) I am trying to restore it from the Time Machine backup folder Backups.backupdb located on an external 1TB WD called Time Machine Backups also containing additional folders with other backups.
The internal startup now has only Sys. v.10.5. installed from Apples disk.
Using Leopards start-up disk to Restore System from Backup it finds the 1TB WD disk called Time Machine Backups. After clicking on continue the next window reads No Mac OSX System Backup Found.
The backup folder called Backups.backupdb begins on 5-13-09 with 7 day backup intervals to 7-30-09. The month of August only contains 4 backups. The month of September shows daily backups.
