My late 2008 15" MacBook Pro has been taking a lot longer than usual to start up and shut down (lengthy spin wheel cycles).
It is completely up to date with Snow Leopard and I almost never download 3rd party software. I pretty much only use the included iLife apps and a bit of iWork, so I'm not sure what could be slowing the process down. I was thinking I could reinstall Snow Leopard.
Just recently my MacBook (10.6.2) has started to take around a minute to shut down instead of about 2 seconds like it always has done. It displays a lightish blue screen with the loading symbol as seen below the apple logo when starting up any machine. The only thing I have done differently recently is started using an external monitor and kb/mouse. Although I have disconnected all of these and it still does it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I turn on my macbook pro I'm getting a single beep followed by nothing. It started happening all of a sudden a few days ago. Following the beep, I hold down the power button to turn it off again and start it up and then usually get nothing a couple of times - eventually after 2/3 goes at turning it on and off, it'll eventually start up as usual. I've read that 1 beep signals a problem with RAM? Is that right? The RAM I have in there what it came with so I can't imagine it's that.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am running a Macbook Pro using OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
For the past few days, I am completely unable to restart or shut down the system, unless I hold down the power button.
I have checked Disk Utility -> Verify, and it says my HD is fine. I don't know what else I can do?!
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have a 2012 macbook pro 13" and it takes about 45- 50 secs to startup! But during the startup a WHITE screen appears for about 5 secs after the apple logo goes off!Is it normal!?!?!
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
When a program closes by itself and the window pops up asking to send a report to Apple.when I click on the send button I can no longer send these error message.
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have a 2.2Ghz Macbook with 2Gb ram and its running 10.5.2 (update went fine) and for some time now the start up of my mac has been very long. It sometimes take in excess of 30 minutes to turn on. It waits on the grey apple screen with the apple logo and the spinning loading sign near the bottom. Is there anything i could try without doing any major resets or reinstalls?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy new macbook pro of late 2011 was working perfectly! But i know i shouldnt complain but iv only had it for 5months! Nyways, all of a sudden instead of an instant shut down which it was doing it now takes 5-10 seconds to shut down! And my preference is to shut it down! I dnt like just letting it sleep constantly!?!
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My mac is very slow, to start it takes about 7 minutes and it freezes all the time for hours.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I recently did a clean install of Leopard on a brand new hard drive for my Late '06 Mac Pro. I currently have all updates installed, and the system is running very fast and very stable. But! I've been experiencing two problems over the week I've had Leopard installed, and I would just like to know if other MP users are sharing these as well...
1. Half the time I wake the computer from sleep, the fans blast off for about 10 seconds before the desktop is shown. Sometimes when the computer goes to sleep, via Energy Saver, my hard drives keep spinning.
2. Shut down takes an excruciatingly long time. My typical shut down lasts around a minute to a minute and a half.
I've read around and have seen a few problems like this, but I want to know if there are a larger majority of people with a Mac Pro who are experiencing either of these in Leopard. It's not such a nuisance, being I don't have to wait for shut down and I can wait around a few seconds when waking up the computer. Though, here's to hoping 10.5.3 or a firmware update can fix these two issues!
Running Lion on a Core 2 Duo 2 GB MacBook. It is taking about 3 and a half minutes to start-up. This is happening only recently.
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have a brand new 15 inch i5 mbp. I put a cd in to rip it onto itunes. It was really scratched. Now the computer ate my disc (I know I can restart and it will be ok, that's not my question). Shouldn't my brand new mbp be able to cope with a scratched disc? It seems a bit bizarre that the entire computer would freeze just because a disc is scratched. Also, it seems like it takes much longer to rip cds than it does on my pc. It doesn't just seem like it. It takes almost twice as long.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI used CCC to clone my Hitachi 250gb 5400 rpm macbook pro drive to a Hitachi 320gb 7200 rpm drive.
I installed it myself (it's not hard to do at all took 20 minutes) and everything went fine but it seems as though before I see the Apple logo appear, my MacBook Pro now sits at a blank gray screen right when I turn it on for 10-15 seconds longer than it ever did prior to this upgrade.
Another interesting tidbit is that even though I made an exact clone of the drive with CCC, it seems that ALL of my LittleSnitch rules were dumped as LS asked me to verify everything all over again for MobileMe, Safari, FireFox, SimplifyMedia, Time.Apple.com, etc... Not sure why that happened.
I also noticed that on my original HDD it says "Apple Firmware Version" on the HDD label, is this why the new drive takes longer to boot? Does apple have a special firmware for it's drives that it's sourcing from Hitachi?
Since the recent update to the time machine software it has been taking about twice as long to complete each hourly backup.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), WD backup disk
I have a mid 2011 27" iMac that is taking longer than 3 minutes to boot. I've tried turning off everything in the start up menu, but that hasn't worked. In one of the other questions like this, Linc, I believe said to go to terminal and post to questions the output showed up in Text edit, and I have posted them below:
Step 1:
Loaded kernel extensions:
com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.3)
Loaded user agents:
net.culater.SIMBL.Agent
com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist
[Code] ....
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
I continue to get this message, what is taking up so much room?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
why my MS Office takes longer time to start up after I have upgreaded my MacBook Air to OS Lion ? Why my MacBook Air takes much longer time to shut down after upgraded to OS Lion ?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
When I 1st got my computer, I seem to remember it running full-screen video without using the fan. Now, when I look at a regular video in a window, the fan well run pretty heavily. Is this just a function of having a 2-year-old computer? It can't keep up with advances in software and compression, or is it a matter of accumulating “stuff” on it that makes it run less efficiently? Or is it because I run it on an external monitor? It is held on its side in a book arc stand. I thought this was supposed to make it run cooler, not faster?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My macbook pro (Lion) lately is overheated very easily and trying to see if something causes that I opened console where I receive this message:
22/03/2012 20:34:43.486 com.apple.launchd: (org.apache.httpd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Do I have to take any action concerning that message and does this relates to overheating and make fan too busy.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I understand Time Machine taking a longer time initially when first installed, however my Time Machine seems to always be running, backing up ALL my files each time not just the newer ones. i.e. "it" (Time Machine) is always running.
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Macbook Pro, 2 Mini's, Mac OS X (10.7.1), iMac
For all of you who got your MBA2 13's how is the fan noise and heat under the usual suspects like Flash, Quicktime, and javascript heavy pages? Like the MBA1, does the heat go from 49C to 81C? Also, does the fan run really loud, all the time, and what is the RPMs? Please let us MBA1 owners know when you get a chance.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo today I went to my friends house for a party. Her and her friend were taking pictures on photobooth. But when I went to the desktop the icons for "Macintosh HD" and everything else on my desktop were 4 times as big than it's supposed to be.
View 5 Replies View Relatedits my mac-book pro. It turns on i get the white screen with the apple symbol and the loading circle. But it pretty soon after i see that screen come on it shuts off. The hard drive seems to start up softer then usual.
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MacBook Pro, around 6 months old.
I've run into a nasty problem in that my main user account is no longer visible at the login screen, only the guest user account. Basically there is no way I can figure out to get back into my Air other than the safe Safari guest account.
I'm in desperate need for a solution as I need to access files for a conference call in 3 hours.
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MacPro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Power Mac Dual 2GHz G5, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
Had to "repair" my Hard drive afterward computor boots but won't recognize my usual pasword what to do_know Password is correct
View 1 Replies View RelatedWell, my Macbook [white 2,1] has been running at a normal speed and all, but up until a few days ago, my internet has been noticeably slower. I view a lot of pictures and manga/comics online, so when i click to go to the next it loads very slowly, Youtube videos take a long time to load, and buffer every few seconds.
Normally, they would go smoothly and fast, I'm wirelessly connected to my router which hasn't changed and I've been in the same area of my house too. The desktop and other laptop that my family members use don't have this problem either. My family uses a Telus cnnection.
I've already cleared cookies and cache, I went into the Cookies folder from spotlight and deleted all inside it and emptied trashbin.
Have a G4 MDD and it has started to run hotter than usual. Its actually starting to seriously affect the temp in the room. Are there any fixes for this or is it just how it goes? I tried vacuuming it out and cleaning some of the dust out to help the airflow a little but some places are a little hard to access without tearing it apart.
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhy my new macbookpro became lagged and slower than usual?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
We ahve taken the Mac plunge.We purchased an 21.5' iMac and 13" Air refurbished, both are X 10.7 with the extended care and 1 to 1 for both of us.I am also picking up a new Timecapsule 2TB.I am wondering about questions of setup and apps to use.We are clumsy with this stuff and only familiar with MS Office and Outlook.Our use does not include gaming, music, or hardcore picture manipulations.My business use does not require building spreadsheets and usually viewing only.I have not used Powerpoint type presentations but am preparing to learn to.I also plan to add simple graphics skills to draw simple tooling schematics.I am in the oilpatch service industry in Canada.We like simple clean programs that do not shove prompts down your throat ot presume to know what we want.Dare I say we are very tired of the bloated insecure world of PCs, no insult intended.We don't need endless fonts and templates.
Is MS Office for Mac a requirement? Will Works do what we need? Will Safari replace Outlook or would you pick another app like Firefox? What about search engines for Mac? What virus protection programs and utilities are handiest?Using hindsight if you were making tha transition to Apple this week what would be your basic setup decisions?The biggest concern is will I be compatible with my business colleagues?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)
