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
A moment ago the 3rd retina display of my MacBook (and only a month after replacement) the display showed dead pixels again.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), None
for the last week or so my MBA has been showing a ~3 inch bar running vertically along the middle-left of the display. Until today, the area looked just like blurry pixels (some things like graphics would still appear, so I don't believe the problem is with the pixels themselves). Now the area has become a gray bar of pixels.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently had to switch out the hard drive on my Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro. When I got the computer back from the Apple Store I began loading my old content onto the machine. When previewing and opening files, they would appear with randomly coloured splotches of pixels on them.   This continues to happen when browsing folders on my machine.Â
The files do not show up with splotches on other computers, and are not in the same places each time I open the file, which leads me to believe they are problems with my machine and not the files themselves.Â
I hypothesise this is the graphics card, but I don't know enough about the hardware.
See examples below.Â
I have a Dell UP2414Q connected via HDMI to my late 2013 15" retina MBP. The built in display is off (clamshell mode).
Sometimes, the display randomly blanks and the monitor reports no signal. This occurs continuosly for a few minutes and then the display goes back to normal. Sometimes I have to plug in/plug out the monitor to make it recover. /var/log/system.log shows no logs while these blinks occur.Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I have a Macbook Pro 17" 2.16 dual core with a mate screen and now all of the sudden I get this weird pattern. Sometimes it goes and comes back and sometimes it disappears for a month. Is my screen up for a change or is it just something loose.
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log1 Â System Version: OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)Â
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.0.0
Boot Mode: Normal
Model: iMac15,1
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I have a macbook pro with retina display that was purchased in 2012 and I am running Mavericks. I have been trying to mirror my mac to my apple tv but the the airplay icon will not display on the menu bar. I have tried turning airplay on and off on the apple tv without success. Under the display settings in system preferences it says No Devices Detected.I have already tried all the suggestions in the support pages to no avail.
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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
For some strange reason when I open Apps or Finder windows within OSX 10.7.4 on my MBP the menu bar at the top of the screen disappears randomly then reappears again. I've attached an image.
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First of all, I've got a 2009 MacBook running Snow Leapord.
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Starting yesterday, my screen randomly started scrambling and unscrambling. It started while I was watching a video on Youtube. The video would freeze but the sound would keep going, and if I moved the internet browser window (Google Chrome at the time) my screen would become covered in hundreds of the same window. It's difficult to explain; it's like copies of the same window would remain wherever I moved it. Certain things returned the display to normal: Pressing F3 rapidly, hovering my mouse over the bottome of the video, and pressing Command+Shift+4 to take a screenshot to post with this (which is why I don't have one for you guys; the problem fixed its self when I tried.
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
The little pop up yellow box is appearing when we mouse over this random spot on our mac-mini, and it shows random headlines with no relation to anything open, even when there isn't any programs running.
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Mac mini (Mid 2010)
I've noticed that strange yellow boxes will randomly appear on my display. This happens both on my external display and hte laptop screen. I've attached a screen shot of what it looks like. It's not application specific.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My Macbook Pro (early 2013, OSX 10.9.4) does not come to sleep mode – 10 secs after closing the display lid apple logo starts glowing (blinking) on a random intervals.Â
I have tried the following methods that HAVE NOT solved the issue:
* PRAM reset
* SMC reset
* Power Nap is disabled (with enabled I still get the same issue)
* WiFi is off
* Bluetooth is off
* no external devices connected
* no antiviruses or other programs that I would suspect to cause this
* sudo rm -r -f /Library/Prefrences/SystemConfiguration
* finally reinstalled OS X, and I still got the same issueÂ
Surprisingly, if I enter to sleep mode via menu: Apple>Sleep, there seems to be no issue! I have tried changing pmset -1 lidopen 0 to validate if lid is preventing from going to sleep mode, however it has not fixed the issue. Â
I see this text in the Syslog:Â
--- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 3 21:16:00 Users-MacBook-Pro.local WindowServer[86] <Warning>: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x7fb909487660(2001)
Sep 3 21:16:00 Users-MacBook-Pro.local WindowServer[86] <Warning>: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x7fb909487660(2001)
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Over the last week, my 7 year old Powerbook G4 began showing faint pixels in the background which is more obvious if you are scrolling over menus also when a menu is highlighted. Unfortunately this seems to be affecting DVD playback because it will show blinking green vertical lines inside Front Row. This image within OS X 10.5.8 will show what I mean: [URL]. Does this means the graphics card is failing?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How do software that aren't retina compatible yet look on the MBP Retina Display? From my own experience as a developer when using regular sized images and resolutions on the iPhone 4, they come out as blurry. I was thinking perhaps the same thing will occur if the software isn't retina compatible? I e 2x in GUI size and scaled down?
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While surfing safari my macbook pro will randomly start highlighting wherever I move my cursor. It happens randomly and it is annoying because I can not get it to stop and it refuses to click on things because the text icon is displayed as it is in highlighting mode. I was wondering what is causing this and how I can stop it?
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The issues are random slowdowns and lots of beachballs since yesterday.
At the moment I am running iTunes, Safari, Adium & Skype only.
Might add that it's Safari 4Beta and also the Skype beta.
I'm hoping for some kind of insight on a phantom random shut off issue I'm having. I have a 2007 2.2ghz MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and upgraded to 4GB ram. Within the last month, it has started to randomly power off. At first it only happened when I closed the lid and it went into sleep, but when I would arrive at school it would have shutdown on the trip. In the middle of this, I also replaced the battery. The day I put the new battery in, the thing freaked out. It powered off randomly while I was working. I was in the middle of the first battery calibration so I thought it might be a battery issue. When I tried to power back on, it would start to load the desktop and then power off again. I couldn't get it through a full boot cycle. I tried various configs of old battery, new battery, with power, without power cord and nothing seemed to work. Reset the SMC and PRAM as well to no avail. The longer I let it sit the longer I could work prior to power failure. So I assumed it was FUBAR and walked away.
Next morning called apple care and of course, things seemed fine. However, 1.5hours in, shuts off. Crap, Apple Care said go to Genius bar get it checked. Three days at Genius bar, full hardware and stress test and everything passed flying colors. I thought maybe it was a naughty little gnome who had decided to move on and torment some other guy. 3 days go by no problem, then today during sleep it powered off again. Then tonight, twice while working with powercord attached (one time losing about an hours worth of Excel work, which was a nice bonus).
Since everything checked out fine, I'm struggling with what to tell Apple if I take it back for repair. I need the laptop, but trying to work expecting impending doom when it randomly decides to shutdown sucks. I have apple care, but if they can't find any issues then it doesn't do me any good.
Any suggestions? Is it worth trying to do a clean install or look at some kind of software issue? Has anyone else dealt with this kind of issue?
I am using my macbook it gets hot pretty fast and shuts down. Then when I start it up it shutsdown right away. If i leave it for a while it will work for 5-10 mins then shutdown. What to do?
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OSX 10.5.8
2gb ram
nvidia 9400m
Late 2011 Macbook pro shutting down randomly, sometimes changing date.
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I just recently noticed that in the middle of doing normal things on my MacBook Pro, it goes to sleep randomly. I have the 2.4ghz 13" 2010Â model. It happened twice so far within a 10 minute period. It has happened while charging through the AC adapter. It wakes up fine like usual, and when i close the lid and open it up, it actually wakes up faster than normal. I'm wondering if i should contact apple, or bestbuy (i have a 4 year warranty there)
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
my macbook pro has started to just cut out randomly. I have had this with an expanding battery and haven't had the money to replace it yet, but I don't know if this is part of the issue. When my computer cuts out, it is as though the power cable has been pulled out and the whole system just shuts off in an instant. I know that the power cable has definitely not come out, though.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My 13" Macbook Pro is forcing me to shutdown and restart my computer at random times. So far I've only noticed this when I'm on Safari.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My Macbook pro randomly shut off. When i hit the power button, i can hear it start up, but after a click sound, it stops booting up.
Info:MacBookPro
Macbook randomly shutsdown at any moment
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
It keeps shutting off randomly, its a little over a year old, it's pluged in, fully changed, and and time resets to 2000 and the wifi information get lost.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I've been using my Macbook Air for a while now. I noticed while I was working on my laptop, my 9 key keeps pressing by itself. I've tried to clean under the key and hitting it for the random keypress to stop, but it still continues. I would type somehow like this: 99h99e99999l99o9 or even worse.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
I've had it for about 6 years now and always have to have it plugged in because the battery is swollen and won't fit for the lid to stay shut. Now recently it's been randomly shutting off and have to turn it on again. Is it dying or it simply not getting enough sleep?
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