This is my first post with my new Macbook PRO I just recently received, the reason I am posting this is because the new Macbook PROs are pretty tough I believe.
Every since I got my Macbook I tried my hardest to keep it nice but last night about made me cry when I sat my Macbook PRO on the edge of my bed then my girlfriend 'who is isn't light' came down and sat right on it...
After I saw it under her I went and grabbed it, turn it on, and surprisingly everything still works and operates properly.
After my macbook hard drive kindly failed on me, I ordered a new Seagate Momentus 5400.5, 320gb hard drive. I popped that sucker in this afternoon and began to start up my macbook with the OS X disc 1. Everything was going smoothly, except that it can't find the hard drive. It is recognized under my disk utility, but when I click to partition it, select options, select GUID, click 'OK', I can neither Name it 'Macintosh HD' or do anything else.
I can't proceed with anything because when it asks me to select a HD, the HD does not show up. Again, everything works except that the hard drive is not found. I pulled the hard drive out. Made sure the screws were alright. Made sure everything was all snuggly, and yet it still won't work.
I have a brand new MBP. I have a 1tb external drive with 250gb's of music. I have it attached to my mac via USB. I CANNOT GET ITUNES TO CREATE A NEW LIBRARY ON THE EXTERNAL DRIVE. I CANNOT DRAG AND DROP OR ADD FILE/FOLDER.
But get this, I hook it up to my old Dell and I can do whatever I want. I am friggin pissed that I spent all this money on Mac equip and can't get it going. You may have seen my other post where I posed my issue of: 1tb ethernet drive hooked to airport extreme. Above mentioned 1tb hooked up to back of it via usb. I am completely unable to copy, move, or add files using my mac. But guess what. my pc handles it easily and quickly.
Restored my HD this AM from a TM backup and am experiencing a lot of problems which include (1) Safari and iPhoto crash upon launch, (2) Mail launches but crashes when I attempt to access an email, (3) I have several "offline images" in my Aperture Library and any attempt to access metadata results in a crash.
I have been working on a project in iMovie for a few days, and it has been working perfectly. Today, I opened up my project and I could not play the project (the red line would move, but no picture would show up in the upper right hand corner box) and ALL of the options in the "share" tab were gray and unable to click them. Many options in the "edit" and "file" tabs were unable to be clicked as well.
Another project i completed months ago is working perfectly. The clips in the events play/show up on the window in the upper right hand corner
I just bought two 2GB Kingston 667MHz DDR2 PC2-5300 SDRAM sticks (KVR667D2S5/2G)
If I try both together they don't work, the computer just don't boot. The screen remains black and the power led on, but nothing else happens (no sound at all).
If I try one of the new sticks with one of the old (original) 512MB sticks, then they work and the OS recognizes 2.5GB.
I am 100% sure the sticks are well installed as I tried both with the old memory and I switched them once at a time to make sure they were installed properly.
According to the Mac's documentation and as far as I've been reading in the forums, it should work fine with 4GB.
I've couldn't find anything in the forums that could help me to solve this problem.
My computer: Macbook white 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.5.7) Model Identifier: 4.1 L2 Cache: 3MB Bus Speed: 800MHz Boot Room version: MB41.00C1.B00
I had my MB inside a neoprene case, inside my backpack, and I set it down on the hardwood floor kind of hard. Everything is fine, so I'm just wondering if they are made to take a couple aggressive set downs.
I'm just paranoid, I use the computer for work and can't afford to lose it.
I have a mid-2010 15'' MBP and I was considering upgrading the hard-drive to SSD. Wanted to see if the process is fairly simple and recommended SSD drives which are popular and of course fast.
i bought a new HD because i couldn't get my old HD to boot up. the old HD has the annoying flashing folder with a question mark. With the new HD, I was unable to install the OS X it said something like can't installed on this computer?
We've got a MacBook that's not booting. It gives a question mark when we turn it on.
I've tried resetting the PRAM and SMC, to no avail.
I've tried booting holding Option to list all bootable volumes, and nothing is listed unless I put the install DVD in.
I've booted from the restore disks, and tried to reimage the MacBook, but no volumes showed up to install to.
I tried Disk Utility off the install DVD, and it listed no bootable volumes.
I tried System Profiler off the install DVD, and it said "There was an error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices."
Is this absolutely for sure a hardware issue? this guy seems to have solved almost the same problem without, but I'm not able to reinstall like he did (it gives me no volumes to install to).
I don't have much time and need to know whether to send it in to Apple or not. Being that we're past 90 days, they won't give us tech support over the phone, so if it's not a hardware problem, we're going to get charged, and other circumstances dictate that the computer either be fixed or installed ASAP.
I installed MultiClutch several Times on my MBA. It just won't work. I added applications like Firefox or iTunes, then I chose gesture and key command.
I restarted the application, nothing happend. Also, I tried it with global gestures, same here.
Multitouch is working where it has to (iPhoto, Safari ... ). So what else can I try to fix it? It is a great thing to wirte such a programm, but on my MBA it is not working.
I have a mbp running 10.5.6 and my girlfriend just got a new mb running the same. I am unable to see her computer on our wireless network. Is there a network setting that I am missing?
I have a Mac OS X version 10.4 and I can't seem to play DVD's on it. I had played DVD's in the past, but I just went to put one in and it does not read it. I usually play them with VLC but when I open it, it does nothing.
I copied a program from an 8-track to DVD recorder in combo with my TV. The resulting DVD was finalized and plays well in DVD player but will not play in the MacBook so I cannot copy it.
My 2yo MacBook won't start. When I press the power button it starts to boot but stalls on the blank, sky blue screen and won't proceed to the desktop. Any ideas?!
I haven't been able to reinstall OS-X on it at all. It takes 45 minutes from the time I say install to the time it gets only 1/10 of the bar across of the installing part and then fails.
I am able to format the HD, and partition it. This HD came out of another laptop of mine that I sold and was working fine. When I first tried this and did a time keeper restore, the laptop kept freezing and it took 5 hours for it to restore. Now I can't get OS-X installed. So I am a bit confused what is going on here.
I have just received all the cable to connect my Macbook Pro to my 40" Samsung HDTV. mini display port dvi --> dvi to hdmi adapter --> HDMI cable plus a RCA audio cable. It will connect and the sound is fine but on the TV the Menu bar (at top) is gone but only because the TV seems to be cutting it off and 1/2 inch of the dock is gone too (this is using mirroring displays). I have also tried switching off mirror displays and transfer the menu bar and dock over but you still cannot see the menu bar and you can barely see the dock, also some of the sides are cut off. Its not a huge problem but it would be nice to be able to see the whole screen.
I wasn't sure what forum to put this in. I apologize if this is the wrong one. Anyhow, I was able to connect to my PC the other day to get some mp3s transferred to my macbook. I did this over the wireless network in my home. I know want to move a few more files but my PC is not showing up as being shared on my mac. And my macbook isn't showing up in the network on my PC. Both computers are connected to the internet now and working. But I just can't access them from each other. I just got my first Mac a few days ago so I am very uneducated on this stuff right now. Do you guys have any idea how I could fix this?
I recently about 6 weeks ago got a iBook G4. Today i bought a webcam from the local supermarket, I need to know how to i make it work with msn also what version of msn do i need to download to view webcams?
I spilled on my MacBook pro, yeah i know it was stupid. Anyway, the computer continued to work fine but some keys on the keyboard stopped working and so I took it in to a computer store and had it cleaned.
The keyboard continued to not work so I bought a new top case online and had it installed. After that the computer worked fine. That was all a few months ago.
Last week when I went to turn it on, it started booting and displayed the apple logo and then I got a kernel panic. I tried restarting like it advises and the same thing happened.
When I try and boot in safe mode by holding shift I don't get the kernel panic but it just spins at the apple logo forever, once I let go of shift the kernel panic screen comes up. I'm running leopard and I don't have the os disc with me but I tried booting with my friends 10.4 disc to run disc utility. However, I couldn't boot from the disc.
At this point I took it in to a computer store for a diagnostic. The guy there took it apart and said the logic board was recently spilled on and is fried. I know I didn't spill on it again though, so I have been questioning his diagnostic.
My macbook pro wont turn on . When you press the powerbutton the harddrive is about to spin up then shuts off. When you hold the powerbutton the light blinks rapidly then it stops the light comes back on then bang it turns off. I reset everything possible! On 17" 2.5GHz Early 08 4,1 Model. And yes I tried hooking it up to an external monitor
I have a and older model black macbook and the vga and mini dvi adapters but when i hook it up to my sony flatscreen i am not able to see it in the tv as an input ? does any one know how to trouble shoot this or fix my problem?
My macbook wont turn on and makes no noise when i try to do so. When I press the button on the battery is still shows one green light. The green light on the magsafe is on when it's plugged into the wall. I can't get more than one green light to appear after it's been charged for hours. Is the problem that my macbook isn't charging or is it something internal. I'm assuming internal because I still have one green light that appears on the battery.
So we replaced our 15 inch macbook pro with a 500 gb hard drive.
We first tried to install snow leopard with no success as it would just load a blue screen then restart. Then we tried to install the original software that came on the mac this loaded up to where we could install it but it did not see a hard drive to install onto.
I did a password reset on my Macbook by using this process:
1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting
return after each line):
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
reboot
Everything went smoothly and it brought me back to the welcome screen where your supposed to create your account and what not. But went I tried to type into the input fields (name, address, email etc.), it wouldnt type anything. Every time I try to type it would make a noise as if it knows im trying to type but nothing shows up.
Seems as if the keyboard is locked or something. I know that the keyboard works because it worked fine before I did the reset n plus when I reboot hold apple+s, I can type in the terminal just fine. With that being said, does anyone know how to unlock my keyboard?
I have been using the new MBP 2010 17" model for about 10 days. It happened three times that garbages appeared on the screen for about 0.5 seconds. Twice under Mac OS and once under Boot Camp Windows Vista. Anybody else has similar problem? I saw those things when I was using the MBP (with the infamous 8600M GT) three years ago.