Earlier this evening my Pro (OS X Lion) overheated seemingly randomly. I gave it time to cool down but had to restart it. Not too long after restarting, it started blaring a klaxonlike horn at me. I didn't know what to do so I just shut it down. It's working better for now, but we'll see.
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.6)
I have no idea why this happened but now when I open Finder, my desktop, documents, applications and everything else don't show the files I know are there. I also had several files on my desktop that are no longer showing. This is really annoying because I can't access my documents and downloads which I really need to get to right now. I can't think of anything I did to have triggered this but its been like this for at least a few days. I have a Macbook Pro and Lion.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My daughter has just got a macbook air 2014 1.4 128gb 4gb ram.I realize these are not power house machines, but are pretty slick, due to the SSD, and hardware/software relationship. What bothers me is that while the computer is doing nothing, and i mean nothing, everything closed down, nothing downloading in the background etc, Activity monitor shows that the memory is using 2.2gb of swap (which i believe means it is needing to use the cpu for support). Â
the reason i started having a look at this is because she plays sims 3, and whilst it plays ok, jesus, the fan goes full steam and the battery is pretty much dead in one hour, even though the games specs fall well within this systems specs.(So she only plays it plugged in now).The sims thing is fair enough though, if that is the work the computer needs to do to run it, but why is the RAM seemingly not coping while the machine is idle?Â
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
My computer was at 89% battery life (unplugged for approximately 30 minutes) and shut down unexpectedly and without any warning. Â
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Model Information:
Manufacturer:Â Â Â DP
Device name:Â Â Â ASMB016
Pack Lot Code:Â Â Â 0003
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MacBook (13-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I've been hearing a lot about macbooks overheating, and was just wondering what are the ramifications of it overheating? Does it act slower, or over time does over heating lead to long term defects or something? Are there sings I should look for or something I should do if I sense my mac getting really hot?
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MacBook Pro
My macbook pro overheated last night while in sleep mode. I starting it this morning it just kept a black screen and would do nothing else. Tried holding down power button for 10 secs and now it wont turn on at all. I pulled the battery out and unplugged the from the charger. Put it back in the computer got warm without even being on. Don't know what to do. Do not have apple care, mac was bought through school and is 4 years old. Is there anything that can be done to save it?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
In the last week or so i have been experiencing lock ups every 15-20 minutes, which last for around a minute. The problem has only presented itself after I moved to a dual monitor configuration, although this may be coincidental, given the nature of the problem. The problem only seems to occur when the system is reading from from the main hard disk however testing the disk (and performing a directory/file test) says that the disk (and all others in the system) are functioning properly.
Curiously, any audio playing at the time, regardless of the application it originates from, continues to play while the rest of the system is unresponsive. It also appears as if the keyboard and mouse are disconnected during this time, and the power lights on each begin to flash, and the Caps lock key no longer lights up. I would like to avoid replacing the system disk if at all possible, as i have already had to do this three times since last December, when i purchased the system, due to drives developing faults.
2x Dual-Core Xeon 2GHz
1GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 8800 GT
My mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro randomly "loses" its retina display at the top menu (becomes pixel-y), where the battery, sound, and wifi logos are (on the top right side of the screen). A restart fixes the issue, but I want to know if this is an issue that can be fixed?Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
So...basically what is going on is that after a while, depends on how hard my computer wants to run and make itself hot, it will completely shut down. . .not sleep, power off.
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idle temps: (celsius)
ambient:54
CPU:72
CPU heatsink:60
Northbridge1:57
Northbridge2:56
Fan RPM:5100rpm
Load Temps (celsius)
ambient:53
CPU:83
CPU heatsink:64
NorthBridge1:55
NorthBridge2:57
Fan RPM:5500rpm
For some odd reason, my pro which is only about a month old keeps blacking out. I already checked on the automated sleep and it is not that. The screen will just randomly turn black even when in use. I tried pressing buttons, esc, spacebar, and even turning it off. It also has issues turning off. When I finally get it to turn off and try to restart it, it lights up but then the CD drive makes a noise like theres a disc in it even though there is not. I tried ejecting it even though there is nothing in there and the screen goes black.
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MacBook Pro
Recently my iMac has been overheating while I'm playing a game. I hear the fan running and the body of the Mac gets really hot where I can't touch it I have Smc fan control.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
I just bought my new 2012 macbook pro a couple weeks ago, and so far it has crashed and rebooted by itself four times. Three of those four times, I had only been running a couple programs, such as Chrome and Mail, while all others were closed. the entire computer will freeze for about 6-7 seconds (no response to mouse movement/keyboard) and then shut down and reboot. Â
Is this a bug with OS X Lion? or the new macbook Pro? or my macbook pro specifically indicating there's some sort of defect?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I did nearly six hours intense work on my MacBook Pro yesterday (Photoshop, Indesign, updating software and numerous other tasks).
I don't have a temperature gauge in my menu bar, so I don't know how hot the MacBook became, except it was quite hot to touch at the back.
Can this happen?
Macbook pro running lion 10.7.5. Â
Every 8 or 9 minutes my mac seems to move me from whatever I am doing and takes me to the home screen. How can I stop this from happening?
Within the past couple of days, my macbook pro has been freezing randomly, something it has never done, and the WiFi will shut off and will not turn back on unless I restart the computer.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Typical Apple discussion from browsing the web but I will give it a go. I'm not doing anything to cause it to crash, I deleted mailboxes and just kept iCloud still crash, I just other mailboxes like Gmail and got rid of iCloud still crashed. I deleted RSS feeds still crashed, It still crashes when nothing else is open, I rebuilt my mail library (I will leave that one as a cliff hanger to if it worked or not). Â
Any ideas or better alternatives to Mail? I don't like outlook and really should never be an option.
My IMAC with Lion desktop is randomly shutting off.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Lion
For some reason, Finder has been crashing randomly for one week. Every five minutes or so, Finder closes for 10 seconds, and reopens again. Every time, I get a lot of error reports in Console:
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iMac 27"
So frustrated with this situation. It appears this is only happening since upgrading to Lion so that's why I've chose to post it in this forum. My screen has been shutting off randomly. And I've only been able to get it to happen when I use gestures on the trackpad. (I.E.: "App Expose, "Show desktop" or "Show all windows.) I say my screen because the HD is still spinning, the keyboard backlights are still on and the status light is still lit. I can't do anything but hard shutdown. I've tried adjusting the brightness, clicking, keyboard commands (force quit) and nothing does anything. I've been sending the crash report to Apple but I feel like that is pointless so I'm turning to the forum for a possible answer. I've inluded my specs below as well as a copy of the log that got sent to apple (in blue). I don't know if it will say anything to anyone but it's worth a shot. I don't think it's a screen cable issue cause I'm not moving or adjusting the screen when this is happening.
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iMac Intel, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Ok, so ive had this problem for a few months now and it has led me to the point where my mac was in storage and i havent touched it in a month or two. What happens is no matter what i am doing my mouse will move around the screen clicking randomly and basically doing whatever it wants. i have looked into the problem and other people have similiar issues but not the same. i can be across the room from my mac with the screen on, and the mouse will still move around and click and open countless folders even though no one at all is even near the computer. today when i took the mac out to see if there was a software update available (which there was) the mouse was not moving around or jumping at all througout the entire update. After the update it is now yet again jumpin around and clicking wherever it wants. Also its not just once in a while it is 24/7 it has made my mac unable to be used because you cant really control the mouse for more than a second at a time. my whole screen is now full of untitled folders..
Info:MacBookPro
My mail app freezes randomly while I have my computer on while I go to use it and I have to restart the app to get it to work again. I'm not sure what to do?No beach ball cursor comes up, I just can't click on anything.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Randomly, my computer seems to be disconnected from my wi-fi network. It is not a routeur problem since every other devices still work when the computer doesn't.
iMac late 2009 (first 21.5" generation)Â OS X Lion 10.7.3
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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have been running a Mac Mini OS X Server for last 3 months without a single error. I have 2 of them. Yesterday, I upgraded to 10.7.4 (from 10.7.3) and today, one of my servers has crashed twice. Both times, it has rebooted (no Monitor attached to Mac Mini). It is out of service for 10 mins or so. This concerns me, as it never rebooted before 10.7.4. Also, other Mac Mini OS X Server doesn't have an issue. I usually wait a few weeks before installing software updates on servers - but I decided to yesterday (Sunday), because I had some time, stupid me.
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iMac, MacBook Air, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Apple customer since 1982
It keeps saying Ethernet cable is unplugged but it's not. And then it will turn back on and seem fine until it says unplugged again a few seconds later.I just installed OS lion and before I did ,this never happened.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Web pages randomly jump back a page or two for no reason. It sometimes happens when I'm not touching the trackpad or the magic mouse. I am using a MacBook Pro O SX Version 10.7.4. It happens with Safari, Firefox and Google Chrome.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
On any desktop I'm using (mission control) when I place my mouse cursor in the middle of my desktop, a window appears with random days of the week.The following screen shots did not capture the cursor, but it was just below and to the right of the cursors position on the desktop.
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
