This evening while surfing the net my 2 year old 15" mbp froze. I couldn't force quit or anything and had to result to holding the power button down to shut it off. When I turned it on again it was on the white screen with the apple and spinning circle ( not the beach ball) for more than 10 minutes before it moved on to the login screen. I was able to enter my password. After entering my pw it moved onto a blue screen with the beachball for more than 15 minutes now. what might be wrong or better yet how to fix it?
My computer won't turn on. Earlier today while playin music it just paused itself. I minute later it resumed. Then tonight it just shut off instead of sleeping and now it won't start. All I can get if I'm lucky is the start up chime and a super quick flash of a white screen.
My computer is a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Version 10.7.3, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 with 4GB memory. Start-up has become somewhat erratic. Consistently, if I close the lid on the computer it won't restart when I reopen it. I'll have to hold the power button down for about 15 seconds, let up and then press it again. Sometimes restarting after a shutdown the computer will go through the long start-up I associate with a crash shutdown. Sometimes login start-up items don't start up. Sometimes I have to click somewhere on the screen to make the menu bar at the top of the screen visible. Overall, unexpected things keep happening. Although I don't think it probably relates, Chrome is my primary browser.
Whenever I take the hard drive out my laptop just stops working and it's back to normal when I put the hard drive in, is there a way for me to use my laptop without having to physically have my start up disk (hard drive) plugged into my laptop?
Macbook Pro can't start up beyond the grey start up screen. There's a spinning wheel and bar that moves to 1/4 before Macbook Pro shuts down automatically.
I am not 100% sure what the offical name of the start up noise is when you turn on your Macbook, however that is all I am geeting when I turn it on. I push the power button, it makes that start up noise of the disc drive... sits... and makes the noise again... sits... makes the noise again and so on and so on. The screen doesnt change at all, just blackness. I was able to start it up once with the start up disc and I thought that was the fix, so before going to sleep I powered down. Woke up the next morning same old bs AND it will not start up off the disc again. Another time after letting it sit and try to boot up for awhile (30mins) it finally did! However after 20-30 mins the screen kind of flickered and then everything froze. Can't get it to turn on at all now. Just that noise over and over and over and over again.
[URL] input Music into vent and whenever I press "start" I either Get an Error Saying "cannot start Jack server, Please Check preferences or retry after a system reboot" or "Fatal error has occurred shutting down." and I reinstalled it and Used the default preferences
First off, let me explain the position I am in. I have the newest 13in MacBook with a 2.4Ghz hard drive. I installed Windows Vista on it recently after I got it. Many times while using Vista, all audio would stop and be replaced with crackling sounds. This would continue until I restarted. I tried going to Dell, downloading drivers for the Broadcom 802.11n WiFi Adapters and installing those, but that caused a worse problem. Windows can no longer find any networks, and when I select the Broadcom WiFi Adapters in Device Manager, it says "This device cannot start." and says it's Code 10 or something.
My iMac does not start up as usual. I now get a ' start up disk is full. You need to make space available on your start up disk by deleting files' message. Â I am able to key my log on password however I just get the purple galaxy screen with no desktop.Â
If I try to use the keyboard I get a tone when pressing the keys. Â
Has worked perfectly well up until I got this dusk full message. Â
Our 2011 iMac with SSD takes 2:15 (two minutes and fifteen seconds) to start up. Start up on a SSD should be faster. OS X version 10.7.4 and applications are on the SSD. Any suggestions for correcting this lack of speedy start up?
Info: Mac OS X (10.7.4), 3.4 GHz Intel i7, 16 GB DDR3
I have the app called "SimpleTask" set to start-up when i turn my Mac on. The icon is just in the top taskbar. The problem is that when i turn my Mac on the window of the app comes up on my desktop and then i have to manually minimize it every time. Is there a way to have it start-up minimized in the taskbar from the start so i dont have to do it manually? There is no option for this in the preferences. There has to be a way to do it thou.
My lovely pro has decided that occasionally it doesn't like the idea of starting from sleep and sometimes won't boot up.
The fan runs at full blast (I think it's the CPU fan), a black screen and the power button on the front glows. I don't have any external drives attached, no stat programs running in the background except little snitch. Generally I close all programs before I leave my desk. After I hard reboot, I get a "do you want to send this to apple?" dialogue, with the errors pointing to the nvidia 8800gt. I don't have the full detail of the error box, I'll post it next time it happens.
I've zapped the pram, run the apple diagnostic and unplugged everything to reset the SMC or whatever it is.
About 1/2 of my wakes from sleep, and about 1 in 4 times when starting exhibit this.
I can't seem to get my Macbook to start up, it rarely gets past the load up screen but when I ran disk utility from the install CD it said the drive is fine, I can't seem to get it to start in safe mode either. I've been having some trouble with the thing lately and know it's time to replace the HD but i'd like to get it running while I order a new one and wait for it to get here. It would also be nice to move a few files to my external HD to.
After using my MacBook for about 15 min, it starts to get very hot. Is this normal or should I take it in? It is almost 2 years old, I have Leopard 10.5.8, and this has just started about a month ago. I do have the extended warranty on it, so I know it doesn't hurt to make an appt at the Genius Bar, but I wanted to hear from you if I should go down there or not waste anyone's time!
My son's MacBook won't start up. He pushes the power button. The chime rings and then the white screen w/ the gray apple and the gray spinning wheel stays on... nothing else happens. We've tried all of hte following with no result. Start from the system CD. Push power button and hold 'C'. The CD spins for a while and then it's kicked out. Push power button and hold 'Shift'. Push power and hold 'X'. Press the control key, the command key, and the power button simultaneously and hold for three seconds to try to restart the computer. After pressing the power button, hold down these keys simultaneously: Command-Option-P-R, until you hear the start up chime at least one additional time after the initial start up chime. Nothing seems to be working.
I have an '08 Macbook pro 2.5 and i just installed a new Crucial solid state drive into it.  When I start the machine using disk utility and want to install Lion onto it, it says this disk cannot be used to start up the machine. I'm wondering if its a compatibility issue. As it sees the drive, tells me what it is, but can not be used.   The macbook pro is the PRE unibody, and I'm not sure what version of SATA is uses. But the new SSD is the new 6GB/s type.
When I came back home today I found my MBP shut down while I left it turned on,I pushed the power on button but all I had is a black screen and the physical lid's unlock button blinking white light
My 13" MacBook pro will play startup sound, but sits on white screen. There is a very low beeping sound and after about a minute the screen shows a folder with a question mark.
My daughter's new MacBook currently will not start up. I had her remove the battery for a few seconds yesterday and replace and that worked. Today, nothing works. Is there an issue with power supplies in the new MacBooks?
I have a MacBook Pro that is approximately 2 years old. It has always worked fine without any issues at all. Tonight I was installing some scanner software for a Fujitsu S300M scanner. After installing the software it asked me to reboot so I had reboot. At that time I came back a minute later to see just a black screen. I then after a couple more minutes decided to hold down the power button and turn off the power since nothing was happening.
I then pressed the button again and I saw the light turn on on the button that opens the screen but that is all. There was no startup chime, nothing. All I could hear is at the same time the light came on the optical drive makes it's noise that it makes at bootup. I have tried repeatly to start the computer. I have pulled both the AC Power and Battery for several minutes with still no luck. As I said just the light comes on and the optical drive makes noise and that's it, no startup chime, nothing. I don't think this should be related to scanner software and I'm assuming it was a coincidence that it happened then but any idea what could be causing this and can I fix it without a trip to the genius bar?
i have the metal macbook (bought november 2008) and i wanted to install windows xp on it. I read my manual i got with my mac and used the boot camp installation thing. I managed to do the hardrive partition thing and it got to the stage after that where it said it was installing windows, so i followed the instructions and then once it restarted after that it kept going back to the 'install xp' screen. I restarted my macbook and took the disk out and when i started it up again it kept coming up with a message which 'no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key' . So figuring it was part the way through installing xp i inserted that disk again but when i pressed any key it didnt do anything so i restarted it again with the disk in and this time it came back up with the blue windows setup screen. I followed the installation instructions again making sure i picked all the options that the bootcamp instructions told me. Once it got to the restarting stage again it kept loading up with the windows setup screen again. I figured i would be going round in circles if i chose to install it again so i restarted my mac and took out the xp disk and put in my mac installation disk instead. Got all the way through the installation part until you have to 'select a destination' and its got nothing to select? just wondering what to do from here if possible id love to be able to save the files that were on my other bit of the partition (not the windows xp bit) but really i just need my macbook working!
Yesterday, it froze and I could not force quit anything, so I turned it off by holding the power key. Then, it would not start up. At first, it simply would go to the screen with the gray apple or go to the blue screen, but would sit there. Now, it the screen simply lights up (gray?), and sometimes a folder with a question mark comes up. My Apple Care ran out a little over a month ago, so I'm hoping it's a cheap fix, such as replacing the hard drive. Here's what I've tried:Resetting the power managerbooting from the install CD (I got a folder with a question mark when I held down C to boot, and D for the diagnostic tools).Letting it sit overnight, hoping the issue would magically resolve on its ownOne note: when I try to start it up, there is a repeating quiet click that keeps going until I turn it off again. I would think I just need a new hard drive, but I'm not sure why I couldn't boot from the CD. My backup is Time Machine, not a clone, so no option there.How can I know for sure if it's the hard drive? If it is, any recommendations on what to get would be great, as well as a tutorial on replacing a hard drive on a MacBook.
I've been trying to fix my macbook for couple days now. I've erased the entire HDD and installed leopard OS on it. I didn't want to install anything on it besides msn since the problem keeps popping up. So basically what happens is safari and msn keeps crashing everytime i start up my mac and try to use them. If it doesn't crash, i get a "you need to restart your computer..." screen. Now its worse... i get a message right when i turn on my computer:
What I can do is only hold the Option(alt) key at the beginning of the boot. But I can find the Mac OS X system in the Windows system. Also the Windows part in the disk tool is showing diskO3 and I can't fix it. When I try to fix it, it says try to buck up data as much as I can. so what should I do. No matter which system I boot last time it always boot to the mac OS X.
When I turned on Caliope -my macbook- yesterday in the morning, she appeared to have problems to boot, there was a grey bar which has never appeared before, the grey bar was loading but hen it reached half way, everything stopped and Caliope crashed -automatically turned off- Been reading about the global crashes, I'd installed SL last weed so I think that's the prob.
I've posting cause I've a LaCie External HD and I could log in using it, I can also log in on my windows bootcamp partition which is called Mathusalem.
Now If I send my Mac to apple repair, there is any need to backup Mathusalem? As it is a partition drive.
First, safari froze (spinning beach ball). I only had 2 tabs open (cnn and facebook) and Mail. Not much going on, it has never froze like that so I let it sit for about 10 minutes. It was still spinning when I came back so I did a hard shut down (held power button). I tried to turn it back on about a minute later but it wouldn't go past the grey screen...and then the lovely folder/question mark came up. Joy oh joy.
So I booted from the install disk and it said my hdd was not mounted. I ran disk utility and it gave me these errors:
-Invalid node structure -Volume needs to be repaired -Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
