MacBook :: Bought A Used Wipe Out The Memory?
Feb 27, 2012I just bought a macbook and i have no disk how do i wipe out the memory?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), i do not have any disks
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Intel Mac :: (Mid 2010) Memory Bank Was Already Damaged Before Bought It?
Jun 9, 2012I use my Mid 2010 iMac for virtualizing routers. I noticed that with the 4gb of RAM that was already installed in the iMac was not enough. So, I did some research and found out that, my iMac can hold up to 16gb of RAM. I did some more research and found out how to replace the memory in my iMac. Then, I went to Micro Center and bought 16gb of RAM and brought it back to my apartment. Now, I powered off my iMac and unplugged the power cord, flipped the iMac upside down and unscrewed the three screws that were holding the memory cover on. After removing the memory cover, and pulling back the memory tabs/flaps, I shined a light down in the memory slots and found one memory slot that looked damaged. I was not completely sure, so I went ahead and removed the old memory by pulling hard on the memory tabs/flaps, and the memory was unseated.
I remove the memory and replace it with four, 4gb sticks of memory. Once I powered on the iMac, a memory beep sounded off. So, I unplugged the power cord from the iMac and removed two of the four memory sticks out of the iMac. The two sticks of memory I removed was out of BANK 0/DIMM0 and BANK 1/DIMM0. BANK 0/DIMM0, is the one that is damaged and my hardware warranty has expired. I bought this iMac damage, and now it won’t support 16gb of memory. What should I do? By the way, the other 8gb of memory in the other two BANKs are working.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Memory BANK 0/DIMM0 is bac
OS X :: Does The Free Space Wipe Option Also Wipe The Slack Files On The Hard Drive
Dec 15, 2008When using the Disk Utility free space wipe to wipe sensitive data (using the 7 times option), I thought that would be sufficient.
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MacBook :: Factory Memory Modules / Missing One Gigs Of Memory?
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Mar 25, 2012My MBP has been acting strangly for more than two months now. It started with taking a couple minutes to locate the WiFi, then just general slowness, and now is so troublesome that I want to just wipe it completely to factory fresh and try again. I nearly chucked it out a wondow today, the first time a Mac has made me feel like I was using a PC.I originally posted quite awhile ago (url...) although 300+ reads got not a single reply. So I don't know whether I am even posting this in the right area.is this more likely a Lion problem? Or something else? I don't know and am tired of being stressed. Had an important paper to write today and probably should have used my iPhone rather than trying to convince my MBP to work.
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Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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MacBook :: Wipe Hard Drive But Not OS?
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2007)
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Air :: Wipe Info From It But They Don't Come With Discs?
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MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro :: Computer Died Bought A New Charger?
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MacBook :: Wipe Everything Without Formatting Hard Drive?
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MacBook Pro :: Wipe All Personal Info On It But Keep The Applications On It?
Jun 20, 2012So I am selling my early 2011 MacBook Pro and have been having a lot of trouble getting people to buy it at my asking price... So I was thinking of ways I can get it at the price I wanted and thought to use the software on the computer as a selling point. Well it worked and I have all of adobe CS5 on it along with Microsoft Office for mac and windows 7 as a partition. Well I got a buyer who is interested primarily because of the software and I want to sell it but just keep the applications on it. What can I do to protect myself by getting rid of any personal information? Do I just go to my key chain and wipe it clean and wipe all my documents? The licensing for the applications won't be an issue for me so I don't care about that.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
