MacBook Pro :: Doesn't Boot After SSD Upgrade
Jun 19, 2012I have upgraded my mbpro with an SSD and After ist it doesnt Boot?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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MacBook Pro :: Doesn't Recognize Memory Upgrade
Jun 17, 2012I just bought 2 - 4 gb memory to ugrade my 2 - 2 gb memory on my macbook pro 13" early 2011. Installed them and rebooted. The About Mac still shows 4 mb memory and looking farther it shows it has 2 - 2 mb memory. Also, now when I close the lid on the computer and it shuts down completely and not just go to sleep. i do not know if the two are related.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Power Mac :: G5 Doesn't Boot - Making It Boot?
Jun 11, 2012my old 2x2Ghz PM G5 (late2004) doesn't launch the boot sequence:
- when pushing power button, the blue led turn ON as long as I keep it pushed. If not pushed, it light off but yet the fan are running.
- no chime
- the fans turn on normally and the hard drive start a little to make noise once powered up.
- no video on display, the screen is black.
- the keyboard is not recognized anywhere I plug it.
- after a minute or two of non activity, the fans start to blow full speed (guess its a security measure for saving processor)
I ve done the reset of PMU several time (unplug the power cord then push the button at bottom of mother board)As i dont have access to keyboard, I can't start on Target mode to check if the HD is failing all.I ve removed all RAM extensions and left only one pair in slot 1 (J0), and changed the pair to avoid a faulty RAM.I only have a redlight on motherboard if I don t put back the glass panel.I ve check the voltage of the lithium battery, and yet its the original, the voltmeter says its 3,6V...
MacBook Pro :: Doesn't Want To Boot When CD Rom Is Connected
Jun 4, 2014I have an issue with my MacBook Pro (2009) model.
When I'm connecting CD-ROM (internal one) computer doesn't want to boot nither from DC ROM nor from HDD.
As soon as I am dissconecting CD ROM system is booting up without any problem.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
OS X Yosemite :: Macbook Pro Doesn't Recognize Flip Mino Camera In USB Port After 10.10.1 Upgrade
Dec 5, 2014Since I upgraded to Yosemite, my Macbook Pro doesn't recognize my Flip Mino camera in the USB port.
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
OS X Mavericks :: MacBook Air Won't Boot After Upgrade
Jun 25, 2014Just got my MacBook Air back from a certified Apple repair shop - I'd had maintenance done, including upgrading to Mavericks (10.9.3). Plugged it in, started it up and never got beyond the startup screen - Apple logo and spinning wheel after 5, 8, 10 minutes...
Tried starting in Safe Mode, but once the load bar progresses about 1/5 of the way, the bar disappears, the wheel spins and then the screen goes black.
MacBook :: Corsair RAM Doesn't Boot My Computer?
Jan 16, 2009I just installed the Corsair VSA4GSDSKIT667C4 G 4GB into my MacBook MB403LL/A and it will not boot! I tried to install and re-install 3 times and I can't get it to work!
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Feb 22, 2012I am using a 15" MacBook Pro Santa Rosa (mid 2007), 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 6 GB memory, with a 240GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD (15 months old). Lion 10.7.3. Computer doesn't boot into Safe Mode AND also if it "goes to sleep by itself" (I don't touch it for a while, then it falls asleep) after some time when I try to wake it up I get the Spinning Ball of Death or a black screen and the only thing I can do is press the power button for some seconds to power off. It wakes up OK if I, either close the lid or Apple icon-> Sleep.
WHEN TRY TO BOOT INTO SAFE MODE: Immediately after the startup chime I press the Shift key, after 2-3 seconds get the login window, key in my password. Instead of logging in, it goes to a screen with the Apple icon, underneath it, the Apple spinning gear and underneath that a loading bar. After quite some time the loading bar disappears, the gear goes on spinning for a LONG time, then black screen, startup chime again and login window. Then, when I key in my password, it just logs in as usual, no safe mode.
I tried to write in Terminal “sudo nvram boot-args="-x"”, BIG mistake! It got my computer into a loop of those screens. I don’t exactly remember what eventually got me out of this loop (I think I booted from a clone, then started with the Lion CD and wrote back “sudo nvram boot-args=""” in Terminal. Also set up an additional administrator account but all was the same. Tried verify/repair disk, everything OK. Eventually I erased completely the HD (not Recovery HD) reinstalled Tiger, Snow Leopard and Lion again, downloaded all applications/software/programs I had, from scratch and only copied the data from a backup, being sure that after that all problems will be over, but... everything like it was, no "normal sleeping" and no SM booting.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 6 GB Memory 240 GB OWC ME Pro SSD
MacBook Pro :: Longer Boot Time After HD And Ram Upgrade?
Apr 12, 2010i just upgraded my MBP13 with 4gb and a 500 Hitachi drive. the process went smoothly. i didnt quite understand the time machine OSX reinstall process, i was mostly afraid of having to re-install every other programs. So i went the easy way and downloaded super duper to clone my drive and did the switch.
it use to take around 25-30sec to boot. now it takes more like 45+. I also noticed a few setting had changed after the upgrade. namely, little snitch (i think..) was opening a window showing me inbound transfers, my desktop image was reset and other small things like that. is it all normal? is there anything i should do to speed the boot time?
another note, there is a cd in the drive at boot, but its always there as it was when the boot time was faster. i just dont have anything to put it in so it seems like the best option to always keep it there.
MacBook Pro :: Lion Freeze On Boot After Ram Upgrade
Apr 25, 2012I have a mid-2010 13" Macbook Pro. I wanted to upgrade to 8G of ram so I bought this: url...When it arrived in the mail I installed it and booted the laptop. The apple logo comes up, the spinner starts spinning and then after awhile freezes. I figured that I recieved bad RAM so I sent it back to apple and they sent me new memory. I installed the new ram and the same thing happened again. Booting in verbose mode (Apple-V) doesn't give anything useful.This time I decided to run memory tests. I booted into single user mode (which sees 8G of memory and works fine) and ran memtest overnight. It ran 6 or 7 passes without finding any memory errors.My next plan is to try to my DVD reinstall/repair the OS to see if that will help but I don't want to do that because I would have to downgrade to Snow Lepoard and then reinstall Lion and that takes long enough to try to avoid.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: White Screen On Start Up / Doesn't Boot
May 5, 2012White screen on start up, doesn't boot.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: After Install Update 10.7.4 Macbook Pro Doesn't Boot
Jun 3, 2012I have late 2011 13"Macbook Pro with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
After i update it to 10.7.4 it restarted and shutdown , i open it again only apple logo appeared for 1 min then it shutdown .
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook Air :: Upgrade To SSD Will Boot Into A Gray Screen With ? Mark
Feb 25, 2012I have an issue with selecting (restart). If i choose restart after a software update, from the apple drop down, or when i select the drive in startup disk in preferences, it will boot into a gray screen with ? mark. if i choose (shut down) from apple drop down menu and then start up from the power button on the air, it boots up with no problem. I have checked with the SSD maker and i have the latest firmware I cannot use the old HD to see if it is a drive issue. Its dead.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)
MacBook Pro :: Motu Ultralite / New SR MBP / Boot Camp Doesn't Work
Jun 14, 2007I installed Boot Camp 1.3 so I could run Windows XP on a partition (use it for music); no problem. Set up my Motu Ultralite on the OSX side, no problem.
HOWEVER: The Motu UltraLite doesn't work on the XP partition, at all. It shows up, but no audio can be routed through it. It's a firewire audio card, if you're not familiar with it.
MacBook Pro :: Ethernet Port Doesn't Work In OSX But Does In Boot Camp
Nov 30, 2007Been troubleshooting this one awhile...I even did an Archive and Reinstall....my Ethernet port on my 2.16Ghz MBP won't connect to anything. I get an IPv6 address when plugging into a router, but DHCP never works and a manually assigned IP doesn't work either. Reboot into Windows and it works fine...I've tried removing the Ethernet port, and have futzed with all the settings trying to reset it, but no dice. Problem started somewhere around 10.4.9, I think...I'm on 10.4.11...I reinstalled to .8 and worked my way back up...never works.
View 7 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Macbook Doesn't Boot - Blank Grey Screen, CDs Not Recognised
Nov 24, 2008My Macbook will not boot up. I am now faced with a plain grey screen with no apple logo, chime sound or activity wheel appearing.
Like most Macbook users I know, I rarely go through the booting up process from day to day use unless the System Updater requires a restart, but this time there was a different reason for me restarting the system.
When I was expanding an archive with Stuffit Expander, the app froze up. I went and deleted the archive file knowing that it was corrupt, but I did this too soon before the app had a chance to close down properly. It became stuck as a process that couldn't be closed down. Its dock icon didn't have a 'Force Quit' menu option so, I chose to perform a restart.
The Macbook went through the startup process but took a very long time. (I guess after reading around the forums this was fsck attempting to scan and repair the potentially damaged hard drive). I mistakenly performed a hard reboot thinking the system had hung.
The second time, it displayed the apple logo and wheel for about 2 minutes before showing a circle with a line through it and no further activity. When I rebooted again the apple logo and wheel were displayed with the hard drive activity audibly in a repetitive on and off state. I left this for about 15 minutes before deciding to turn it off. At the present moment it starts up to a plain grey screen as mentioned at the beginning. I tried experimenting with removing the extra 2gb memory module but there was no difference with or without it. I tried resting the NVRAM with Option-Command-P-R but all I got back was the startup chime (i.e. the muted volume I had it at has now reset to the default level).
When Option is held down on booting, the mouse cursor is visible over the same blank grey screen. No volumes show up. I have selected the Finder Preferences option to hide all volumes from showing up on the desktop, but I doubt this would affect volumes from showing up on the boot up screen.
I have tried booting from the 10.4 CD that came with the Macbook and the 10.5 (retail) DVD. The 'C' or 'D' keys do not have any effect either.
I think my options now are either to try and obtain a firmware reset CD which might make it possible to recognise volumes again, or there's the possibility that I'll have to get a new hard drive. Can you suggest anything else I might be able to try?
On the subject of hard drives, if it turns out that the Macbook's hard drive is beyond repair and I need a new drive I only have a caddy for 3.5" PATA drives which I use for Time Machine. With an appropriate 2.5" SATA caddy is there any way I could access the filesystem in Windows? How else could I format the drive to the correct FS?
MacBook Pro :: Doesn't Boot From Internal Drive - OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Sep 11, 2014On start up the white screen of death and a flashing file icon with ? is all that happens.
Have reset PRAM and SMC
Boots perfectly from external drive
Internal drive is ok, in fact I have tried two different drives both of which are working perfectly.
Doesn't start in Safe Mode
Starts in Single Use Mode
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Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP55.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.47f2
Serial Number (system): 7303202H66D
Hardware UUID: 00F60032-5E52-52B1-8945-D6BC7F175795
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: Macbook Pro (2007) Black & White Horizontal Lines & Doesn't Boot Up?
Dec 18, 2009There's some known documented issues concerning the Nvidia graphics chip in the particular model of macbook pro I have.
Basically when turning on the machine, the screen is filled with black & white horizontal strips like a piano keyboard, but thats it - it doesn't actually boot up fully at all, you cannot hear the hard drive running !
Would the hard drive have anything to do with this ?
I explained this to apple telephone support & they informed of the article
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& stated that the symptoms were linked.
On taking the mac to an apple store they ran a special 'firmware' boot up 'test' using an instore ipod to determine if it was a faulty Nvidia chip, so as to prove to Nvidia, the company funding the repairs whether it is that to blame.
Because the machine didn't even boot up & complete the 'test' they couldn't say whether it was the graphics chip - so 'no free repair' under extended warranty & the final answer was as usual ' buy a new logic board' that will cure it !
MacBook :: Doesn't Boot, Disk0s2 - I/O Error, Invalid Node Structure
May 10, 2010I'm having big problem with my notebook.
It goes down after the gray start video.
Doing the fsck this is what comes out...
OS X :: MAC OSX Doesn't Upgrade From 10.4 To 10.5
Aug 28, 2009I'm hoping someone can assist. i'm usually in the Cisco Forums. I was just given a gift of a macbook from my sister for a gift. It was her old one she bought a year ago as she upgraded to macbook pro.
I currently have
75GB HDD
2GHz Intel core Duo
2GB 667 MHz RAM
I'm currently running tiger 10.4.11
She also gave me a copy of 10.5.6 of leopard. I go to run the installer and after i select the language of my choice i get a message saying that mac os x cannot be installed on this computer.
MacBook Pro :: Doesn't Boot Beyond The Grey Screen With Apple Icon And Spinning Wheel
Mar 20, 2012My macbook pro doesn't boot beyond the grey screen with apple icon and spinning wheel. I used the "Option" button to access the Disk Utility function and run Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions. Should I restart my computer?
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1
MacBook Pro :: Made Boot Camp Partition Bigger - Now VMware Fusion Doesn't Work
Jul 13, 2009It says that the drive has changed and I have to unmount and then remount it, but i don't really know how to do that and it doesn't seem to work
View 4 Replies View RelatedMac Mini :: Doesn't Wake After Ram Upgrade
May 17, 2012I recently upgraded my mac mini from 2gb ram to 8gb ram and noticed that when the mac goes to sleep and the tv ( through hdmi wire) goes into standby that the mac mini will not send a signal to the tv anymore to wake up the tv from standby when I need it too from tapping on keyboard or moving mouse. At first I thought it was because of a software upgrade on the mac mini but when I switched back the ram to 2gb the mac mini will send the signal to wake the tv. I hav already reset pram setting and the usual things that everyone has mentioned in other posts . This seems to be a major flaw in apple deisgn unless they have a fix . I am stuck with my 2gb ram now in the mac which doesnt even have any speed . the only way I can use the 8gb ram is if i turn the mac on and off everytime I want to use it , as this is the only way to wake the tv with the 8gb ram inside as it doesnt wake the tv from sleep. This totally contradicts what apple say in their manual aswell, they say not to power down your mac if your using it everyday just put it to sleep which wont help me in my case . So at the end of this rant my only two options are to continue to use 8gb ram and have to power on and off mac everytime to wake the tv or use my 2gb ram which makes the mac run really slow as 2gb is not enough but hey aleast my tv will come back on from sleep mode .
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Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.7 :: Desktop View Doesn't Fit After Lion Upgrade
Mar 18, 2012I upgraded an Imac 24 inch to lion.Now the desktop is slightly magnified and less sharp and does not fit the screen.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 24 inch Imac
OS X Yosemite :: Dreamweaver Doesn't Work After Upgrade
Dec 6, 2014Dreamweaver doesn't work after Yosemite upgrade, it asks to install Java Runtime SE 6, I've tried that, I've also installed latest Java and it still won't boot, keeps asking for for Java Runtime SE 6
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Safari :: Facebook Doesn't Load After Upgrade To 5.1.4/OS10.6.8
Mar 14, 2012I cannot get Facebook to load since upgrading Safari from 5.1.3 to 5.14.
I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.8
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 17" / 2.66 / Intel Core i7 / 8GB
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Airport Doesn't Work After Upgrade?
Apr 21, 2012Airport won't connect after recent upgrade to snow leopard.
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MacBook
ITunes :: Doesn't Play After Mountain Lion Upgrade
Apr 24, 2012I just upgraded from Snow Leopard, installed Mountain Lion, 10.7.3, and with it the recommended iTunes upgrade 10.6.1. It seems to have broken things.
If I click to play a song I can get the play window, but it'll be frozen at 0:00. Starting, stopping, dragging the cursor: nothing will make the time advance or music play. This happens with samples of music, purchased songs, video samples. The Console isn't showing any error messages.
I've logged out, and back in. I've shut down completely and rebooted. I've check that stuff still plays OK on my iPad.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: IMac Sound Doesn't Work After Upgrade?
Jun 27, 2012I have an Intel-based iMac which I just upgraded two days ago from Snow Leopard to Lion (10.7.4). I did an upgrade-in-place (as opposed to a fresh install) and did a software update after the installation completed. I have my computer scheduled to wake up each morning at 6 a.m. When it wakes up, the sound doesn't work unless I reboot the computer. If I open up iTunes and try to play music, there is no sound (unless I reboot). The song progress meter at the top of iTunes won't even move when I hit the play button. When I open the Sound preference and click the Output tab, I do see the Headphone port and the output volume is set all the way up.
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Jul 14, 2008A while ago, I got hold of an old Power Mac G4 (450MHz, 128MB RAM, OS X10.3) which I haven't dug out until now. As it contains the old owner's data, I thought the best thing to do would be to do a clean install of Tiger. I bought a Tiger DVD set and upgraded the RAM to 1GB but the DVD won't boot. The DVD is mounted in OS X and I can access the launch screen which has a button to restart and upon restarting, OS X just boots again.
I have tried pushing C and Alt (I have a Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard as the Apple one has been misplaced - Could this be the problem?) but nothing appears on the the display for a while, then OS X boots. I have also tried setting the Startup Disk to the Install DVD which doesn't work either. I was also thinking it could be the DVD-ROM drive as the button to eject is in the center whereas the drive's eject button is on the right (so I am guessing it isn't an original part)
