MacBook :: Turned On - Rainbow Wheel Pops Up And Won't Go Away
Apr 13, 2012Whenever I start my mac the rainbow wheel pops up and it wont go away.
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MacBook
Whenever I start my mac the rainbow wheel pops up and it wont go away.
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MacBook
I have a brand new macbook pro, and whenever I use itunes, iphoto or firefox. I get the spinning "wheel of doom" about every ten minutes. It only lasts about 30 seconds, but happens even when I only have one application open.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWell I had my first lockup today... i was in finder looking at some files on a external drive and then i just got the rainbow wheel. i let it set there for about 15 minutes no luck, then i manually stopped finder. After that nothing seemed to work right until I rebooted.Oh well that the first one since I got the thing...... Windows would have locked up 10 times over by now.
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy computer is slow to load and it keeps giving me the rainbow wheel
Info:MacBook Air
I have tried to login but it is stuck loading and shows the spinning rainbow wheel and hasnt moved changed in a while what do I do??
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MacBook Air
My Mac all of a sudden turned off and when I turn it on only a grey loading bar pops up and then it's his down. I went to recovery mode and it says Disk Utility has stopped repairing my hard drive. Then it tells me to back up my files and restore. I need to get some of the files I had on my Hard drive but I don't know how to get them.
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MacBook (13-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
My 2010 Leopard MacBook Pro freezes for no apparent reason. The multicoloured spining wheel thingy pops up and I can move it but can't do anything else. It last for a few minutes and then it starts again.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Why my safari freezing on me daily? I am often opening new tabs and viewing 4 or 5 pages at once, and while they are loading it seems to be stuck on the annoying spinning rainbow wheel, ultimately leading me to end the program for not responding.
View 24 Replies View RelatedI got my mac the summer of 2007. Recently I have been having a problem with the rainbow wheel frequently coming up every few minutes. Sometimes it goes away and others I have to restart my computer completely. My computer has also been running slower lately than usual. I don't know if the 2 have any correlation with each other or not. I did the disk repair it utilities, and also the thing with running the test with the disk, and it didn't seem to help, maybe I didn't complete them or something, I'm not sure.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using a Macbook Pro. I keep getting the rainbow wheel (2-3 times in 5 minutes) even using the simplest apps like safari or even just doing the the right-click. I have reformatted 2x and with a clean computer, I still get this problem. Sometimes the wheel goes away after about 15-30 seconds, sometimes my macbook pro just hangs and I have to manually reboot it. I have been to an authorized apple service center and they have told me there is no issue with the hard-disk, so I'm quite confused. I also noticed when I first got this issue, my spotlight was indexing. And when I finish reformatting it, it indexed again. But my primary problem lasted beyond this indexing.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
have had issue with the iMac beeing too slow, rainbow wheels turning, keyboard and mouse unresponsive, have to hard reboot computer. Problem started some time ago, cannot empty wast basket.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
This just happened today- I have a imac 21.5- and when I put in a DVD the movie worked but the color wheel would NOT go away. I tried everything from pressing ESC to trying to fast forward/rewind- nothing worked. I had to restart the computer by pressing the button on the back. I tried playing the DVD again and the color wheel came up. The DVD plays fine in other players.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIve been getting this issue on my macbook quite frequently now; dont think its hardware related and occurs randomly at any time up to 3 times a day where the computer will slowly begin to freeze.
It (usually) begins by my browser not being able to access a website (just a white screen in browser section), at this point im able to alt tab between apps for some time but eventually everything will hard freeze, same with the cursor which will turn into a rainbow wheel and also eventually freeze.
Can only resolve this by power button for 6 secs (good thing it starts up in 5 seconds)
MacBook Pro
Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Software OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)
My MacPro 2013 will have pops and clicks when the WiFi is turned on. I have Edirol MA-20D speakers hooked to the MacPro using the digital in. Turning off WiFi stops the sounds.
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Final Cut Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I am using FCP 6.06, I imported video from two different video camcorders: Canon GL-2 mini-dv and a Sony Digital 8 TRV340. Importing from both of these cameras went pretty well, i had some dropped frames while importing, nonetheless it went pretty well. However, when i drop any of the footage into the timeline and I press play, it will play for a few seconds, hang up (spinning wheel) and then gives me a window that says: RT extreme has determined that these were caused by slow disks, please try: Increasing the speed of your disks, Decreasing the number of RT layers, Limiting your RT bandwith. AS of now i currently use a 1 TB Western Digital "My Book" for my scratch disk. I have tried everything I can think of and I am working on a Wedding video.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have 2 MBP's, a Mac Pro, and a Mac Mini. On all of these I use a Logitech Trackman Wheel with. I updated the first 3 machines to Snow Leopard and the Logitech Trackman Wheel continued to work fine. I then upgraded the last MBP to Snow Leopard. For some reason the scroll wheel no longer works on the Logitech Trackman Wheel. I am able to use the ball to move around the screen, the buttons still work, but the scroll wheel won't work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis is the second time I installed a new toshiba 1tb hdd on my macbook pro unibody and after some use I get the spinning rainbow and lots of hanging and do some checks with drive genius and it told me again I had bad blocks on the HDD. When I first installed I tried checking for bad sectors and nothing appeared but now that I used the laptop they appeared.
Now tell me what I am doing wrong because this is the second time it happens with the same brand ,model and capacity of HDD.
1. I format the drive to mac
2. Install mac on the hdd running with an external hdd enclosure
3. Restore my data with carbon copy cloner to the new drive
4. Install on the Macbook physically
5. Run checks for verification of smart disc and permissions fixes.
6. Update OS if needed
I have a 2006 MBP (that may or may not be the problem) that freezes when I do anything. It happened sort of gradually. First, I was just getting the spinny rainbow when I had too many windows open or something. Then, it started just happening just because, sometimes only a couple minutes after my last restart. Now, I can't even open certain programs with it crashing right away (Safari, iTunes, iChat, Software Update.)
Safari doesn't even really open, it bounces in the dock then just sits there without being highlighted, but makes my computer absolutely unresponsive. I am able to use firefox (which I'm using right now, this is my only computer), but it won't be before long that I see the spiny rainbow again.
Stuff I've done so far that hasn't worked: Reformatted
Took to 'genius bar' who could only tell me that I may need a new HD
Installed new HD
I've recently purchased a 13in. Macbook Pro Unibody (July 2009; 1st time mac user). 2.26, 160GB, OSX 10.5.8. All software upgraded and running latest version. 98 GB free memory. Recently while watching movies using Quicktime or surfing via Safari, the mac would just freeze. A rainbow colored spinning ball would appear for 15-30 seconds and freeze the application and sometimes the entire system. I can still move the cursor but cannot click on any program. I've tried the disk utility and repairing permissions. (although after verifying the same list would show up.
Mostly permissions differ relating to quicktime. is this normal?) The freezing action would sometimes happen 5 - 10 times a day but on some days would not happen at all. The programs usually running are iMail, Safari, Excel, Finder, Transmission, iTunes. Do I have to limit open programs? Add more RAM or HD space? Could it be temperature related problem? Room temp is usually between 27 degrees Celsius to 37 degrees when I'm outside. (working now overseas in the Philippines) Is this a hardware problem? If software, any program I have to install.
I am doing an assignment that's due in for uni tomorrow and the Microsoft word document has frozen to that rainbow thing, and I cant force quit it as its not saved I was in the middle of it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI did this on my white MacBook last year, but that was A LOT of work due to removing the LCD display to apply the rainbow insert. This time www.icolours.ca offers transparent stickers that nearly fits over the Apple logo which makes it A LOT eaiser to apply. It looks GREAT and took no time to do. I ordered 3 stickers incase I screw it up, but I didn't. I use a Speck case to protect the Air and keeps it looking NEW, I recommend it to everyone. I did it at my desk at work. The pictures are taken with my iPhone.
View 24 Replies View RelatedWhen I open MacBook Pro (in sleep mode) I see rainbow on black screen. I have to keep the power button. I have this problem only when I open (after closing) my MBP. It started after an upgrade HHD to SSD (OCZ Agility 4). SMC reset did not help. I have MBP 13 late 2011 i5 2,4. Mac OS X 10.7.4.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
i would really like to change my backlight on my macbook pro to rainbow but i don't know how. how i can change it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI Was having some trouble a few days ago with my computer running slow with basic tasks, would give me the rainbow spinner frequently. I have a feeling it might be because of some music I downloaded from a torrent website (?) so i decided to do a hard shut down a few days ago by holding the power button down and left it alone until today, where it asked me to log in and then had the pop up that said something like "your computer was shut down unexpectedly, would you like to open all the apps you had running" or something along those lines and I hit cancel instead of yes because i wanted the computer to start new with nothing open. Well after I hit cancel and logged in with my administrator password, it will not load my computer past the log in screen and just has me stuck on that screen with the rainbow spinner. Not sure what to do, I'm afraid of repeatedly doing hard shut downs. Not sure if I have a virus from the songs I downloaded but I don't think I'll be downloading anymore.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIve ran multiple different types of terminal searches for this "flashback" Trojan worm/virus that's going around. I've also searched for com.apple.systempreference.plist and it's not in there at all. I've done safe mode and everything else. I do not have a wallpaper HD lite, I am OUT of options, and I really don't want to have to re install Lion. Can someone PLEASE tell me something, other than those options?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), 4 GB Version 10.7.3
This is for all of you with your shiny new macbooks. I've got a 1.83 version, and found out a little glitch. When I press caps lock (at the top of the button), the key actually pops out part way at the bottom until I press it again to go back into place.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI haz a serial problem, but I'll spare you the plea for sympathy and leave that to my psych. A less serial problem is my 2.4ghz AluMacBook. It's super great funtime, number one! The problem is when I put it in my laptop bag, the lid pops back open! This means pencils or cd's could get inside of the clamshell and damage it! I don't like to have my properties damaged so I'm wondering if there's a way I could re-tension the spring or adjust something soez that it stays shut. No, I'm not complaining about a weak spring, as with the MacBook Pros, I'm complaining about maybe a spastic spring that just can't be subdued. Is there any chance the magnets that hold it shut are weak?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to print to my wireless Epson Stylus NX430. I want to print in grayscale- when I print something the print que pops up and with an error saying, "looking for printer." The printer is connected to my wireless. What can I do?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)
I downloaded java couple weeks ago, and my browser start to open ads instead of the website i want. Also, when I open the website I want some words appear bold and have link, where on my phone it appears as normal text when I am browsing on my phone.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
When I click on any website for anything....I have another tab or window popping up which has nothing to do with the original website that I am on. Why is this so? This is beginning to be real irritating. Secondly I also get this annoying video streaming alongside on youtube.
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MacBook Air