MacBook Air :: Its Repeated Freeze On Startup?
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
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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G5 Power Mac
Mac OS X (10.5.1)
PPC
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Dual G5
Mac OS X (10.4.1)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Win XP Pro running on VMWare Fusion virtual machine
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Mac Pro
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