MacBook Pro :: OSX Mavericks (10.9) / Screen Went Black And Computer Won't Respond
Jun 3, 2014
I was using my MacBook Pro , which I only bought a week ago , when the screen suddenly went black and the computer seemed to power down , when this happened it was on 40% battery , I plugged In the MagSafe it didn't seem to light but when I looked closely it was on but it was very dim and flashing green and orange . When I put my ear to the case I can hear a faint noise.
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MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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Aug 31, 2009
I was just using my powerbook G4 12" when it "clicked", the screen went black and it will not respond. the power cable light is on, and I've tried another battery, but it does not turn on! the little light on the latch button that glows usually, is not on. What has happened to my Powerbook????! I don't have applecare but I imagine I will be calling Apple this morning unless someone can help here
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Jun 27, 2014
Computer starts (keyboard lit, music plays, caps lock light on), but no screen. I need to open and close 2 - 30 times before the screen will turn on. Once on, the computer works perfectly. I've tried PRAM and safemode reset.
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Jun 5, 2014
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)
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Dec 15, 2010
I was BBMing while trying to plug in my headphones with my pheripherals, and I accidentally pushed it (not very hard) into the USB port. The tip of the headphone jack connected with the little connector ball at the bottom of the USB port. The screen went black and I instantly hit the power button on instinct, so I don't know if it shut off. Did I do something very bad, or is that normal? I'm not sure if that's even considered an electric shock or what.
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Apr 29, 2012
When I open my macbook, the screen remains black (as though it's in sleep mode). Adjusting the brightness always fixes this problem, but this is a temporary fix. The brightness is not at zero when I adjust it after opening, often I need to dim the screen to reactivate it.
This problem is not: related to *clamshell mode*related to unintentionally dimming the screen. related to any of the settings in the Energy Saving panel in system preferences
Extra info: The computer seems as though it doesn't actually enter sleep mode when I close the computer.I don't think there are any processes running that would prevent sleep mode. I really just want the computer to go to sleep properly when I close the screen and more importantly, that it wake-up when opened, or at least when a button is pushed aside from the brightness buttons.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 27, 2014
About 6 months to a year ago, I had water damage onto the macbook pro, it completely didn't work for ages, however yesterday I thought I might as well try it again, and it worked! I was super happy that the laptop worked completely fine!Â
However, in system properties it was only saying it has the intel chip, not the nvidia one, so I thought maybe the graphics card was broken from the water damage? I was not too sure.Â
I then went to upgrade to mavericks, as soon as the update finished, black screen! From the second I turn on the notebook its black, no cursor no nothing, the PC turns on fine, I can type my password, then search for itunes, hit play on the keyboard and music plays. So its literally just a pure black screen. I try to hold CMD-R when restarting the notebook and nothing, pure black screen the screen never comes on at all!Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
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Aug 26, 2014
My macbook is running Mavericks OS X 10.9.4, and I'm having difficulty getting rid of the vertical black columns on my computer screen when it is connected to my classroom projector. I've played with the resolutions, and the best resolution for the VGA display is 1024x768...Unfortunately this creates less than desirable black columns on my computer screen. Another teacher in my school has display settings of "1024x768 stretched," and her macbook does not have the issue mine does. However, I don't think she is running Mavericks 10.9.4. I cannot find this display option on my computer.
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MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Aug 22, 2014
when my macbook pro go to sleep mode and after i try to started it - I got black screen and have a loading cursor mode, If I close my macbook and after 3 minutes open - all working fine!
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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May 16, 2010
I have a 2008 macbook pro with snow leopard installed. When i turned the computer on the computer boots up but my screen stays black. Sometimes when i try to restart the computer i don't even get a chime. When i do get a chime, i can share the screen and run the macbook from my imac. Is there a way to get my screen to turn on remotely from my imac?
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Apr 16, 2012
My computer screen goes black but computer is still working ( music playing, video playing etc.) later the screen saver comes back on in 5 to 10 minutes and I can see everything again. This can happen several times during a computer session, any ideas what the problem is?
Info:iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 3, 2009
When I run the SMC 1.3 update, my computer just stops at a black screen, at which point I have to force shut down the computer and restart it. It then informs me that I need to run the update again.
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Feb 8, 2009
Everytime I turn it on I get a black box asking to shut down or restart the mac. I have managed to get it to turn on to powersave and managed to update the software. Thought it might help but just made it worse - it won't boot up at all now past an apple symbol with a little swirly thingy underneath (I apologise now for my lack of intelligence when it comes to computers/knowledge/names of things!) The first time I managed to boot the computer up it came up with the grey screen and a little folder flashing between a face and a question mark which I assume meant it couldn't find anything but that appears to have gone away now. I bought this computer new from Apple about 2 - 3 years ago and no disks were provided with it.
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Jan 2, 2011
I recently purchased a refurbished 24 inch imac from the noticed when the computer is idle (black screen), my wired mouse does not work. When I pull the cable out of the usb port on the imac, the computer screen comes on and then I reinsert the cable back into the usb port in the computer to use the wired mouse (wired mouse works fine after I reinsert the cable back into the usb port).Could this problem be associated with the wired mouse or with the usb ports on the imac?
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Apr 11, 2012
I have a G5. It started whining loudly and now it has a black sceen. Can't find old discs to reboot.
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Jun 4, 2014
I have a 27 inch desktop. Upon turning the computer on within seconds the fan comes on. Then it goes to a high fan. Then it goes to a black screen. Then it shuts off. Then if you click the mouse it will come back on. This cycle repeats itself every 5 seconds. Only one time in the past month did it turn on normally and run for me.
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iMac
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Jun 6, 2014
My imac has a black screen with cursor after i allowed maverick updates. I tried holding shift key during start up and at first it looked like it was going to work, then it turned black again. What do i do??
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iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), iOS 7.0.1
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Jun 3, 2014
My imac screen has gone black?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Sep 5, 2014
I have an early 2008, 24-inch iMac. This problem started after I installed an OS X Mavericks update (and has continued). Basically, after the screen is asleep for a while, if you come back and move the mouse / tap the keyboard, the desktop never reappears. The screen stays black but the mouse cursor shows up and you can drag it around. I've seen some similar issues that said they could get the app switcher, but that never happens for me. Just mouse cursor and black screen, no matter how long you try to wait it out or tap buttons. The only solution is a cold restart, although I think in the past I was able to fix by turning off energy saver settings for putting the display to sleep. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say it happens over 50% of the time. The problem actually kicked in with one particular App Store update of Mavericks. I believe it was 10.9.3 if I recall correctly.
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Mar 17, 2012
Tried to restart didn't work. Light is on, but nothing makes noise or anyhting. Been charging it for hours so it has power. Tested the chord on my ther computer and it worked
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MacBook
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Aug 24, 2014
My finder simply does not work, nor does, for instance, my Disk Utility, nor my "About This Mac". However, System Preferences works, most download apps work. I do not have Google Drive, and thus cannot unsync it.Â
It's a 2009 MB White, plastic case, 4gb ram, softwareRAID, 120GB HDD, Core 2 Duo IntelÂ
I'm also worried that my hard drive is failing altogether.Â
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May 6, 2012
The computer doesn't respond to the power button when pressed. (imac - no intel)
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Sep 3, 2014
We all got brand new MacBook Airs to use. My friends and I started using them and messing around to see what we could do, and found out that the Messages app on the Macs was great for sending people obnoxiously long iMessages. Like, say, we'd write a word, copy paste it a couple times, and then copy paste that, etc. until it was long enough for our satisfaction.Â
one day I decided to spend about 5-10 minutes just seeing how long of a message I could make.,Then I tried to send it. I say tried, because it actually didn't send right away. So, I waited for about 15 minutes, laughing at how devious I was. After the 15 minutes, I started getting worried that I was going to break something by sending such a long message, as it was still trying to send. I tried to fix this and cancel the message by restarting my computer. Of course, this didn't work, and almost made it worse, as the Messages window wont even pop up when I click on it now. I tried restarting and shutting down my computer multiple times, still to no avail. my friend actually received the message, because it told him he had gotten a message from me, then when he opened up his messages app, it just kinda froze his whole computer for a bit, then crashed the messages app.Â
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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Aug 22, 2014
After the computer has been in sleep mode for a little while, when i try to wake up the computer, it turns to a cray scree, a loading bar appears and then it takes like 5 mins for the icons to appear and for the mouse to work!
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Stock mottle 21.5inch
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Aug 30, 2014
When I turn on computer it starts with a white screen with 5 purple stripes. These turn to a full screen of purple squares.
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27, Other OS, iMac11,1 Intel Core i5 2.66GHz
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Sep 12, 2014
Late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina running Mavericks 10.9.4 with all software updated.Â
A couple of days ago, I opened an image up in Preview only to find that the application would not respond to any clicks or keyboard shortcuts I made. If I were to hover over an icon on the top bar, it would recognize that I was doing that, but not do anything if I clicked on it. Ultimately, the only way to close the program to perform a force quit with Cmd-Opt-Shift-Esc or right-click on the dock and go to "Quit". It does not show up as not responding in the Force Quite menu, and the problem does not go away if I reboot the computer.
I've also experienced the problem in two other apps to date - the App Store and TextEdit. Both will act like they're perfectly okay until I actually go to click on something, in which case they won't respond at all. There's no spinning pinwheel or freezing - it just acts like nothing is happening. (For example, if I launch the App Store from my browser directly to an app page, the "Download" or "Purchase" button will highlight when you hover over it but cannot be pressed. I have launched it from Finder, as well, so it's not that contributing to it.)
These are the only apps I've noticed that are doing it, but they're all Apple apps. In contrast, Finder, iTunes, and Safari work as well as ever.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 8 GB memory, ~251 GB storage
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Mar 3, 2012
Is it that there is just too much going on for the system, I have my HD encrypted.Â
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MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), HD encrypted
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Jun 5, 2012
My mac mini doesn't respond to anything, i try changing screens but they do the same thing?
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Mac mini
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Feb 3, 2012
Desktop restart shows flickering black/white screen, then black. Could not restart.
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iPad 2, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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May 24, 2012
I came back from work to wake up my iMac. It made the noise but the screen stayed black. I tried restarting by holding the power button- I can hear it start and the chime but still have a black screen. I tried resetting the pram, and unplugging the cord but I still get a black screen. I can hear the chime though; I'm not sure if that means anything. I just had the hard drive replaced in February so I hope it's not that. just wanted to clarify that when I restart, I get the chime but the screen stays black- I don't get to the grey screen. So I'm assuming right now that my display may be shot?
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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