I was on Netflix but all of a sudden my MacBook crashed, it wouldn't do anything, so I held the power button until it turned off. But when I tried to turn it back on, the booting wouldn't complete. It turns on, I hear the chime, I see the apple logo and the "turning on" screen but out of nowhere it turns off. What should I do?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
My macbook pro late 2009 (10.6.7) when i press the power button it turns on, then it turns off by itself and then on again and gets a black screen and nothing more no booting sound and i just hear the fans or the Hard Drive going...
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
My Mac pro will turn on. When the progress bar is finished filling in the mac turns off.
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MacBook Pro
My MAC powerbook was working fine yesterday! I shut it down last night and when I tried to boot it up this morning I get: the booting "sound" and the grey screen after which the screen turns to black and in the top left-hand corner
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Is it possible to fix the problem without a format?
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I pressed the play button (F8) on my mac book pro yesterday. Iphoto began playing a fullscreen slideshow that I was not able to stop by any means. I hit the key for force quit and it appeared on the screen but was not able to be clicked. I pressed the power button for 5 seconds then for the first time ever on macbook pro that was so expensive.. Are there people switching back to snow leopard, which is less iPaddy?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iPhoto
When it is booting up the apple turns RED does that mean anything ...
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iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iOS 5.1.1
I'm running OS X 10.4.11 on a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro and I want to make a copy of the entire internal HDD on a external (500 Gb) drive, so that I would be able to boot from the external hard-drive. I'm interested in doing it because I want to have a back-up for the internal HDD, in case it fails, I'll just plug-in the external HDD, boot from it and continue working using <b>only</b> the external HDD, which will be an image of the actual internal one. Please tell me if this is possible? If yes, how exactly do I create a bootable, full disk image of the entire internal HDD, how do I copy it on the external HDD and how do I boot from the external drive?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
At least, it seemingly randomly turns off. I can be surfing the web or whatever like normal, but then after a period of time the monitor goes black. I can see that the computer hasn't shut off, but it's as though the computer is on its lowest brightness setting. It can be temporarily fixed some times if I lower the brightness all the way via F1, then put it back up, but if it goes up more than 3 or 4 boxes it goes black again.
It also goes black if I were to move the monitor any time during this whole thing. I've heard things like an inverter cable and board, but I have no idea what's going to fix this. This is my only computer, I use it for all my school work, if it breaks permanently I'm screwed.
I just bought a refurbished macbook pro and at first the screen wouldn't turn on when I started it up, the little sleep light was on though. I pressed and held down a key for a few seconds right after pressing the power button and the screen worked. My question is, should I be worried about this? I got the computer from a company I later found out is really difficult to deal with so I don't want to have to return or exchange it, but I also want to get my moneys worth.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
After turning machine on I can hear it powering up but the screen is blank...I can see the little white light on the right lit up!
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
I'm having a regular problem with my MacBook screen. Every time I put it to sleep, when it starts back up again the screen stays blank / black. The way to remedy this issue is to close the lid and open it again immediately. Then the screen comes on and no further problems.
Serial: W8905MCX1AQ
It's a 2008 aluminum 13" MacBook with snow leopard 10.6.4
2Ghz Intel core 2 duo with 4gb of ddr3 RAM.
I have an older generation Macbook Pro (the all-silver two-part body style that came out before the current Macbook Pro) that I got approximately two years ago. I do use it quite heavily but have always taken good care of it.
About a week ago, I was using it as normal, then put it into sleep mode and went away from it for an hour. When I came back to it and opened it back up, there was nothing. I tried closing it and re-opening it, still nothing. I did a hard shut-down by pressing the power button until the power light went off, and then restarted it. Even though the computer turned on and the power light lit up, the screen remained black, and the Apple symbol on the lid remained unlit.
I called technical support and they ran me through a list of fixes including holding several keys down and turning on the computer, etc. None of them did anything to the computer as far as I was able to tell. I was not getting any sound, either--whether from having my computer muted or from the computer not working, I'm not sure.
I then tried putting the MBP into Target Disk Mode by connecting it to my sister's MB--no response. Still, the screen remained black on the MBP and no icon for the MBP Disk appeared on the MB. Even though the computer powers up, runs the fan and everything, it appears to be dead for all intents and purposes.
I have two main questions here:
1) What is going on here? Is it as simple as a screen problem, or has my motherboard gone? This is the very first problem I've ever had with my MBP; nothing has led up to this.
2) Is there any chance that my files are safe? I'm currently on vacation and backed up my files prior to leaving, but have done a lot of work since being on the trip and am not too keen to lose what I've done.
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MacBook Pro
I've installed OSX successfully many times but this one, with a new WD disk gives me trouble. After the gray screen is gone and the installation menu starts, the back-light turns off and I can't do anything about it. Any idea why that happens and how I can deal with it? I am working on a Mid 2009 13" Macbook pro with 2.26ghz and 8GB of RAM.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
There is also no display when hooked up to external monitor. No display when started in safe mode. No display when started with PRAM reset either.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Mac pro has a gray screen with apple logo running pinwheel but wont load up. Tried shutting it down and restarting a couple of times with no success
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MacBook Pro
My 3 month old macbook pro suddenly has problems booting up. I press power and it goes to the gray screen with the apple logo, the gears start spinning, and then it just shuts off!
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
I can hear the chime going off, but the display turns on you cannot see through naked eye, you have flash light onto to the screen to see very little, can you tell me why this is happening and how to fix this issue. Secondly, can you tell me how to fix this issue, my keyboard and trackpad doesn't work. Is it the problem of flex cable of both the keyboard and trackpad or is the related to software
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
my computer turns on but there is only a black screen. i hear the sounds and am able to press buttons but nothing is seen. how to I fix this?
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MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
having problems with my MacBook Pro. Turns on, straight into user log in. Once password is entered it tries to start up then eventually after grey progress bar has finished brings up a grey screen, then shuts down again.
I've tried starting in safe mode and resetting PRAM etc with no success.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
My mac book pro seems to turn on and load with a dim screen, but turns off after that. I've tried the shift method but it still doesn't work ...
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MacBook Pro
