What does it mean when my 13" Macbook Pro pointer turns into a spinning color wheel after a web page loads, but freezes while this is happening? Every now and it does this for just a few seconds. At first I though maybe it lost my home Wifi signal, but it's showing 4 full bars.
View 4 RepliesI have a MacBook Pro When I try to load a specific page on a website all I get is a color wheel spinning. How can I fix it so the page will open?
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MacBook Pro
pointer keeps turning into a coloured spinning wheel, waiting game ,there is plenty of RAM avaiable?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.1.1, 9months old
Lately my MacBook is dragging and I'm spending more time watching the spinning color wheel than working of having fun. What can I do to speed up the process and get rid of the spinning wheel?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I just got my imac 21.5 a week ago, and now already a problem. It was working fine until now.
I have been copying and pasting pictures and avatars from forums onto Microsoft office (office mac 2008). And tonight I got the dreadful color spinning wheel when I tried to copy more. I wouldn't go away after 10 minutes, so I restarted the computer. I reopened office, and it still had the wheel. It keeps saying it has to close. Why is this happening? Is it bad to copy and paste?
my color wheel or beachball is spinning all the time now and the system is very slow
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
When I open safari colored spinning wheel appears and locks up safari, I have to force quit to get out. It also appears briefly when other programmes are opened but doesn't seem to affect them.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5)
My 2010 Leopard MacBook Pro freezes for no apparent reason. The multicoloured spining wheel thingy pops up and I can move it but can't do anything else. It last for a few minutes and then it starts again.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Get the spinning color wheel when I try to watch video on [URL]. I can watch the initial advertisement, but when it is time for the video to play I get the spinning color wheel and eventually says Plug in Failed.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
My Macbook with 4 gb RAM won't boot standard, safe, or Recovery.. All three results in grey screen with apple logo and spinning wheel which freezes after a few minutes. It also won't boot a bootable Mavericks usb with install package. I can boot single user mode and also view whats going on in verbose.. I am including a photo of where the script stops. PS: I've already tried resetting PRAM and the SMC has been reset as well.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I bought my first uMbp the day Snow Leopard came out. Unfortunately, it was not installed on the uMbp. So upon running the mbp for the first time, I proceeded to install SL.
Now occasionally, maybe a once every other day, whenever I open up a few applications like Word or maybe even a new tab in Firefox, everything would freeze and the spinning color wheel would spin for about 30 or so seconds and everything would resume to normal.
Now I ask, is this normal behavior? I have the 2.26ghz uMBP edition with 2gb of ram.
Should I go ahead and do a clean re-install?
why do i keep getting a spinning wheel and my computer freezes
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My imac recently shows colored spinning wheel and freezes. what this means?
Info:iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My color wheel is ALWAYS on ... NEVER used to come on at all... where do I start?
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MacBook Pro
I can barely type this post or do anything on my mac book pro without a spinning wheel popping up. Any help would be appreciated. I have cleared Pram, ran disk utility fix permissions.
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I bought a new charger and my dad managed to fix it. (after i was told by a tech expert at a dodgy asian store the main processer had to be replaced) The only issue im having are. The spinny wheel apears in almost all tasks, internet , browsing flies , clicking top tab.
It only appears for about 30 seconds then goes away, sometimes freezing completely, It seems to happen less when the computer is stationary but still will happen quite often even just typing text. Logic Pro after reinstalling refuses to Open. Music sometimes freezes skips for 5-10 seconds.
I did some research and try a few things its not the CPU usage cause i been checking using that program that checks. Is there a way i can check what part is failing through software or maybe do a general clean up? since it was reformated.
Do i need to get a new computer or just a replacement part if i eliminate all other issues? Or could it be the start up drive?
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MacBook Pro
on startup with my mac book i get an apple logo and a spinning wheel where it either continues like this or switches itself off.
View 4 Replies View RelatedCould this be caused by a failing hard drive?
2008 13'" Aluminium MacBook
Running 10.6.8 (shipped with 10.5)
2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo
2 GB RAM
250 GB HDD
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Since the last software upgrade all I get is spinning wheel even after resetting
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MacBook Pro
my mac is soooo slow. It is very frustrating. Has been noticeable worse since downloading Lion.
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008)
All of a sudden I was restarting my Air and now, it just has the spinning wheel for a few seconds and then goes blank and shuts down. I have tried everything the 'guide trouble shoots' but nothing has worked. Even was able to test the hard drive and it came back with no trouble. I tried to 'return to factory setting' but no luck and also tried resetting the Parameter RAM.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI put in a samsung 500gb drive, and since yesterday this one is also doing strange. I was browsing the internet and it started launching itunes and going really slow although i wasn't doing anything, then it showed a force quit window telling me there was not enough memory on the startup disk for applications, althoug i still have roughly 340gb of free space. I just thought of restarting it maybe that solved the problem. But no, since then it doesn't startup in mac os x, bootcamp works fine with windows 7 installed. But starting snow leopard just gives me a grey screen like the safe boot screen with the progress bar and the spinning wheel. the progress bar dissapears after a while and the wheel etternaly spins.
Tried single user mode and fsck -fy but it only gives me some dislocations, it gets till the repairing Tree and then says that the volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired. Also tried to reset Pram but that neither. starting up with a bootable usb with the mac os x install dvd on it gives me the prohibitory sign after 2 minutes. I still have to try with my original disc, but that one is at home and I'm not gonna be there till next month.
One day my computer just switched off for no reason. And when u tried to switch it back on it wouldn't pass the apple logo. It just stays on the apple logo with the spinning wheel under.I have tried fsck -fy it say my computer is ok .but then recently there is a losing bar that appeared under the spinning wheel. I have tried putting in the mac osx cd in and nothing happened but the cd won't come out anymore so now every time I switch the laptop it tries to start the cd.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5)
The spinning wheel keeps appearing on my computer when I am using my applications, and the only way to get rid of it is by turning off my computer. What should I do?
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MacBook Pro
I did a software update and now MacBook pro is stuck on grey screen with spinning wheel. Turned off and on, still the wheel is spinning. Tried holding down shift key on a start up and yet still returned to grey screen with spinning wheel.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Cannot log on-perpetual spinning wheel.How can I re-boot?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), iOS 5
Have slow connection, sometimes lose connection for several seconds, have spinning wheel when trying to download a movie.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My MacBook Pro, Mac OS 10.9.4, has been running slow, and the multicolor spinning wheel is showing up quite often. How do I check my internet plugins in case that is the problem, and if they are not the problem.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
System 10.3.9 working without problem ... until...pointer freezes up.
Re-start helps, but only briefly, until another freeze-up.
Tried using another mouse, connected to my USB port.
(Usually, and without problem, I use a wireless LogiTech mouse.)
