MacBook Pro 17" boot correctly but no video. I get the start-up sound and can hear the fan running. I have already tried the reset SMC and PRAM options. Still no video, I have even attempted to connect another video monitor, but nothing.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 7.1.1
I am writing a book on mudbox-3D digital sculpting. My video card is not working correctly here are my specs
I am using Mac Pro Mac OS X 10.5.6
2 x3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB 667 MH DDR2 FB-DIMM
ATI Radeon X1900 XT
Dual displays
20 " display
20" Cintiq tablet
I must say there are no specs on Autodesk website for mudbox for mac and video card.I would have thought my video card would have been sufficient, but it is apparently not. So I am asking what others have. Have you upgraded? anyone trying the nvidia Quadro FX4800? It is a shame that I would have to step away from the Radeon graphics card.I thought it might need an update in its driver but there is no update on the site. So what are the options?I have a call into the media at AMD to see if there is something that can be done with the card that I have.I sure hate to have to review it and say.Take out the Radeon card.I am open for suggestions and comments on this subject.
This morning my Mac Pro tower worked but seemed buggy. I decided to reboot and went into Restart function. I got the chime, have display of Apple but instead of the spinning dial, I now see the dreaded circle with a slash through it. Not a good sign. I tried to repeat with same results.
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Mac Pro (Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I installed Vista Home Premium 32 bit on my brand new Macbook Pro 17 inch, except I am unable to connect to the internet. I just recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and was curious if all the drivers would have been installed correctly with Boot Camp. How do I get the internet to work on Vista?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOdd problem that just started with my 2008-ish iMac. Probably not related, but iTunes did it's typical thing of hard freezing my entire system. I hard rebooted my iMac, and it rebooted with no video. It chimed, but the screen remained black. I searched for the problem and found an old Apple article that suggested resetting the PRAM. Not really believing it would work, I tried it anyway and, still no video.
I let it boot for what I believed was a reasonable amount of time to get to the log in screen. Then I hit the F-buttons for volume and received the chirp letting me know that I was changing the volume. I hit the F-buttons for brightness, but did not get anything from the screen. I was working, so I shut it down again, let it sit, and started it up later. Video! It started up just fine. I know it probably needs to go to the Apple Store, but I am not going to be able to get down there for a day or two.
Info:iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4) Reboot...no video.
So the other day I came home to find my powermac g5 frozen with the fans going crazy. After a hard reset the machine would no longer boot any further than the grey apple (kernel) stage. After pulling the video card the machine would boot up and I could log in using remote desktop from my laptop.
The machine ran that way for a couple of days until I got a new video card. When I put the new video card in the machine would not boot again.(The new card is exactly the same one as the old one)(ATI Radeon X800 XT mac edition).
After pulling the card the machine still wouldn't boot (exact same behavior as with the card) until I let it sit unplugged for 20 minutes or so. Also when it's not booting I can see that a little red light comes on on the logic board behind the cpu's.
Anyways I'm thinking it may be a power supply issue but if any experts wanna help me out with some advice I'd be very grateful.....
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Well Today I tried using a pci video card from a g5 xserve and it exhibited the same behavior so now I know it's not the agp slot.
When it has the cards in it won't do anything except make the bong and the fans come on and then after a minute or so a red light comes on behind the processor and the fans start revving up super loud.
At first it would display up till the grey apple stage of the boot sequence and then hang.Now the display does not come on at all. When it is doing this the machine will not respond to any keystrokes etc.
When I pull the cards out all is normal and I can boot into target disk ,safe boot,whatever except I need to connect to it via remote desktop to see anything. Like this the machine is stable and will run normally. I also tried disconnecting the optical drive and hard drives and swapping the ram to see if that helped but it didn't. Of course I have reset Pram and the pmu also. Is the logic board toast? I can't run any hardware test or asd's with no video to see if there are any errors...
My mini "starts" without chime when I press the power button on the back. The fan starts, the light in front goes on and I hear some clicks which could be the hard drive. The screen remains black (no signal) and the mini does not respond to the USB keyboard power button. It does not start when pressing it and will not power down if I press it for any length of time when it is on. Pressing the power button on the back for some time shuts it down.Â
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I just got the second card I'm trying today: ATI X800 XT AGP, and my computer will just sit at the grey apple screen with no wheel spinning. I'm assuming this is a driver issue (or something much worse)! Since my computer will not boot, I have no idea how to update the drivers for this card.
i am having a macbook pro 13" from about 4 monthes and a month ago my trackpad was not working correctly; it does not click when i press on it i have to press hard and keep holding hard if i want to move some file or pix or anything, i tried all the trackpad's prefrences but it has nothing to deel with the click it is only about the tap to click or scrolling.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I get a message that my clock is not set correctly but it is.I also keep getting a message that the security of a web page cannot be verfiyied.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro 3.1, with GeForce 8600M GT (128MB) DVI Socket.I've connected a new AOC i2353Fh LED Monitor using a DVI to HDMI Cable, the screen is detected and I have had it working fine.Initially I had it running at 1080p FullHD and it looked great.Using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, I could close the laptops lid and just use the external screen.After a few hours running like this, the screen went blank and I had to go back to the Laptops LCD.Now I can't seem to get the MacBook to output to the AOC screen, it's still detected fine, but I get no display.I have confirmed the screen is OK, by connecting to a windows PC and trying both HDMI inputs at full HD 1080p. These were both fine.How do I get the MacBook work correctly with my screen, then use it as my only screen?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
The track pad is not responding as it should, arrow moves on its own at times and when clicked it does not respond or click where it should. Have tried restarting it and it will work fine for a min or so then go back to being inaccurate.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5
Especially when I tap at the extreme left or right. Space does not always happen. No nothing has been spilled on the keyboard.Â
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2011 - OSX 10.7.4
When I open facetime, the camera doesnt come on. It just opens with a black screen and the camera logo with a slash through it. I cant open the preferences to fix anything in it
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1
I just updated boot camp and when restarting teh entire windows went 8 bit. In the monitor conrol panel the computer recognizes I have an nvidia 8600N video card but when changing the resolution it won't take it. I press apply and nothing, it goes back to 640 x 480 and 256 colors.
I started the computer switching to the previous working system and I get the same result.
i have 4 gb of ram, and would like to increase the shared video memory in windows 7, that i am using via boot camp. i know you can do it using the bios, but because there is no bios, is there any program that emulates the bios for boot camp, or another solution to do this?
then, why does windows 7 read just 3 gb of ram, when i have 4?
I bought a dvi > hdmi cable to connect my air to the hdmi port of a samsung 46inch tv. The picture is perfect at 1600x1200, but when i select 1920x1080 it looks really bad, sorta like 16bit colors. When I use a vga cable it looks fine at 1920x1080. So what am i doing wrong? or has it something to do with the dvi > hdmi cable i bought?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy Macbook has decided to stop starting up correctly. Most of the time, I can't get past the gray startup screen, but if I'm able to type in a password, it just timeouts and eventually turns off.I thought about re-installing OSX, only to find that the Superdrive I never use has somehow sunk into the case. I try to put a CD in, but unless I angle it, it hits some sort of barrier. If I angle a CD into it, I can push firmly to get the CD in, but it sounds like it would do damage.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm going to try using my 32" LCD TV as a main monitor for my MacBook Pro, I'll see how it goes (it would be great if all works well and I don't have to shell out �500 on an ACD!) but I'd like to make sure that the colours are as accurate as they can be.
So, what's the best way to do this?
how much free space do I need for a macbook to operate correctly?
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iMac, iOS 5.0.1
I installed Migration Assistant on my PC and am trying to transfer my itunes to my MBA. My Mac gets to the screen where the validation code can be seen, but the screen on my PC says that it's waiting for my mac to get online, or waiting to find it. I left it for a half an hour and the code never appeared on my PC screen.
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MacBook Air
I am trying to install windows 7 using bootcamp. I have a windows 7 premium 64 bit iOS, an intel MacBook air 128 ssd drive, and a 16gb Kingston108. I used bootcamp put windows on the flashdrive with the updates and drivers. Partitioned the hard drive (20 gb for windows). Then it restarted the Mac, it kind of sat on the grey startup for a minute then went to a black screen that said non-system disk press any key to reboot. I pressed any key, it didn't reboot, I pushed every key, it didn't reboot. I then held the power button down to force the shutdown. I restarted and same issue. I then option held and booted into Mac os and re did the whole process and same issue.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My macbook pro is slow on start up. Today I had to shut the computer down using the power button two times in a row. On the third time, the computer executed the start up correctly. What could be the cause of this?
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Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2), 2.2 ghz intel duo core processor
some reason my Macbook Pro 15' inch won't start up. It's stuck at the blue loading screen after the gray Apple. The screen switches from two blue colors every 5 seconds or so along with a loading symbol. Sometimes I can see my mouse and use it, but that's all what is happening. The last thing I did was installing the newest video driver on my Boot Camp. (Windows 7 - 32bit and Leopard 10.5 for mac)
I can still start up Windows 7 without a problem on Boot Camp, so it doesn't seems a hardware issue. I already tried some stuff found on the internet, but I can't start up 10.5 in normal or safe mode.
Normally I build my own machines, but this time around I needed final cut for some projects so I went all out and bought a nice mac pro about a year ago to use primarily as a gaming machine, with final-cut-pro video editing on the side. I've only done a couple FCP edits on the machine and as a result, have mostly used the PC side of things (via bootcamp) and play a game a few times a week on average (Team fortress 2 and FFXI etc). It's run beautifully, easily the best purchase I've ever made.Today is the first day I've had any serious issue with the machine. Having grown up building gaming computers, I am familiar with the corruption (most notably the 'green' corruption that stands out) associated with video cards. Last night I popped on a game called Dragonica that my fiance is into, she needed a hand with some boss thing, so even though I'm not super into it I hopped on. Before I knew it, the screen flickered green-colored-corruption for a second, then locked up. I restarted, thinking its probably a fluke, and before I could get all the way back in, it did it again. I turned off the machine and went to bed (had work in the morning).
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI just got a 15" MBP and would like to hook it up to a 24" Dell Ultrasharp I inherited. However, I know nothing about the button settings on the monitor.
When I connect the two, the MBP background shows up on the Dell monitor but the icons that run along the bottom of the MBP screen are cut off. I'm assuming I need to change the monitor settings but don't know what I'm doing.
So I searched the forums and couldn't find a thread on this. My finder is no longer displaying my free space correctly. Whenever I remove files, it is stuck at 5.85 GB, even after dumping several gigs of files. I have an Early 2008 MacBook running Snow Leopard and my disk has been repaired and verrfied.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Early 2008
When I go into my works website and im printing paperwork - its in a pdf format and it does not print correctly. It shrinks it to only fit the top third of the page..there is no option "fit to page" and ive tried various printing settings,
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iPhone 4, iOS 4
1. Incredibly flaky wireless. Safari won't even use WiFi correctly, Firefox works 90% of the time, but sometimes it just kicks my WiFi off. Same with Windows XP in VMWare.3. Above all, I'll be in the middle of doing a project, AND IT WILL DEMAND I TURN IT OFF? Why!? Why would I want to turn it off? It makes me for god's sakes, and I lose whatever I was doing. See the picture attached below, it's happened half a dozen time in five days, and no way to stop it.
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