My mac book has been starting by itself since last year. I`ve checked saving energy program (I had none). I upgraded my OS and it sopped for a while. But now, it re started and worse three times a day - so I can`t solve the problem by programing it to shut down. I`ve tried to unistall a couple of things but it just made it worse, because now when I find it turned on there`s a message of failure in the initialization folder. I always check on the console to see what is going on. Although I don't really understand apple's commands it seems that there's something to do with finding virusbarriers. Why? I don't think I have any anti virus! I'm kind of tired of exploring things. Should I re-install my OS and everything else? Any solutions? Because reading other people's experience with that was really demotivating (they even mentioned Apple's not having any registered complaints about it)
on startup, macbook pro showed flashing gray folder with question mark, but no startup. After several retries, now shows circle with diagonal diameter, and still no startup. worked fine yesterday.
6 month old MBP 15", been running 100% fine, plugged it into a projector the other day and it auto changed the screen resolution. I unplugged the device, went into settings and changed my screen resolution back to it's factory size as well as command & the minus key to make sure I wasn't zoomed in on anything.
I then did a system update for the following; Airport utility, Safari, Ricoh Printer, Digital Camera Raw, java, Itunes.
Restarted the computer as the updates had finished, then when turning back on the loading screen with the grey background, apple symbol and rotating loading symbol was zoomed in as much as the resolution would allow. So i restarted a couple more times, still the same thing - every time i turn the computer on the loading screen is massivly zoomed in, once it's done loading and moves to the log in screen it is fine.
I've tried plugging into the projecter again and editing my settings, that did nothing. It's like because i updated while the settings where wonky it's saved it somehow?
Info: MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4), Only on loading screen!
I am attempting to select a different startup volume. I restarted my Mac Pro while holding the Option key. The Startup Manager screen never appearded for me to make a selection. I have two bootable volumes on separate internal disks available. I see them displayed in Disk Utilities.
My brother's iBook G4 (I think it's a 2003 model) has a problem with the screen. When the computer is turned on, the screen stays black, although the backlight is on (the apple glows). Sometimes, on start up, the screen works normally for a random amount of time before going fuzzy and then black again.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Is it likely to be a problem with the hardware in the actual computer, or just the screen? Or is it a software thing?
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?!
For the past few days now everytime i start my 15 inch umbp i get the hard drive icon instead of the apple, i need to click the icon before the computer starts but i thought this only showed up if i had boot camp installed but i dont.
The title pretty much says it all. I have an early 2009 13" MacBook, and no matter what the volume is when I shut down, it's always at max when I turn it on again.
My MB shuts on and off....on and off at random intervals. I should start up my computer using Disk utility CD that came with my MB when I bought it, except I managed to misplace it.
I just installed Boot Camp on my 15' MBP. I'm not all too thrilled that the MBP will boot up the default OS so I'm wondering if there any option/preference that will allow me to select which OS to boot every time I start up my computer? On my windows PC I had XP and 7 installed and I had the option to select which one to boot whenever I started up my laptop. Is there anything like this for a Mac? I checked the Boot Camp control panel and I didn't see any settings in there for this.
My Macbook Pro battery had run down (it does quite a bit) so I rebooted with the power inserted.
I get a frozen screen saver which is normal, while the progress bar finds it feet back on power.
However this time, I had the frozen screen saver, and a continuous 3 beeps which I've never had before in a loop? I then re-pressed the power switch on the Macbook and it rebooted fine and seems ok.
This i7 is coming up to its first year (which I think is covered by Apple?) and I *think* this maybe a memory issue? If it is, and my Mac is covered, then by a sheer stroke of luck, I decided to get Apple to fit the 8GB memory at the time of purchase (bad I know! and I don't usually do that) BUT that would mean that Apple fitted the memory upgrade and I haven't touched anything myself.
I then booted up this morning with a full battery and the boot up took a lot longer than normal - maybe around 3 minutes on the spinning logo, and then finally booted - are these all worrying signs?
Info: MacBook Pro i7 8GB - iPhone 4, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I am coming from a PC world and I am starting to get frustrated with this problem. I have had my Macbook Pro 15in for about a year. It is an early 2011. For the past two months I have been having the 3 beeps on start up. I have been to the genius bar about 6 times already. They have replaced my RAM twice, replaced my logic board and finally replaced my hard drive. It is STILL doing it. I don't know what else I should do. Please any more suggestions the next time I go to the genius bar?
i have serious problems with the mb pro from my son, 13", late 2009.
since it didn't start i used an external hd as startup disc, it worked. i thought the internal hd is defect, so i changed it with an older one from this mac (120 gb internal, when i replaced it with a 500 gb i kept it as backup in the safe) to try, but now it doesn't boot from the internal hd, too. so the mac only starts from an external drive, no way to use an internal.
My macbook air (new in Nov and worked perfectly so far) keep shutting down during the start-up process. It powers up fine, but then as it is booting up I get the apple sign and the grey screen and then the line loading across the bottom.....and it gets about 1/4 of the way across then it shuts down.I have triend the SMC and PRAM reboots but same thing hapens. Just when it looks like it is going to work, it shuts itself down.
The gear wheel keeps spinning but nothing happens. I tried to start on safe mode but didn't help. I also tried rebooting holding the control/alt/P/R combination...but still the same thing.I have not backed up in a couple of weeks and ALL my work is in there!
been having increasing sleep problems. now it is impossible to tell if it is on or not, but it heats and i can perform a forced shut down by holding the button down for 10 seconds. i can hear the HD stop. when i boot up, there is no display and no backlight on the keyboard, hence i cannot enter password.
Suddenly, the system will not start. Yesterday, I turned off the computer normally, but today it stuck on white screen showing that it work something but it last long time and nothing. I have the latest version of OSX Lion.
I have time machine but I affraid to delete everything from Macintosh HD. I also checked with disk utility and there was no problem.
Info: MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
As stated above I upgraded my memory to Crucial 8G 1067 mhz DDR3. The initial results were outstanding however over the past few months the performance has decreased and I'm now getting the spinning ball often. Additionally the startup seems very sluggish. I use Onyx for maintenance and do not have any startup programs. I have also reset the kernel cache. (If I remember correctly)
2 or 3 months ago my charger broke, I havnt used my macbook pro since then, until recently when I got a new charger. Now my Mac wont start up.Or, it starts up then shuts itself down again.
I know that in the past this question has been asked, but I was just wondering if anyone has figured out how to _change_ the sound, not turn it off. Although some folks might want to turn it off too.
I was surfing this site a couple of days ago when my MacBook suddenly froze up. I couldn't Force-Quit anything or do a soft restart, so I decided to just power-cycle restart (pressing the power button until it shut down, then pressing it again to start up). When I did so, my startup disk wouldn't mount.
I should give you a little background: Mine is a MacBook White early 2009, with upgraded 4GB RAM & 500GB 5400rpm Fujitsu HDD. I took the HDD from an off-the-shelf 2.5" external HDD. It has served me well for slightly over a year, and is only now giving me this problem.
I have since replaced the original HDD (which I was keeping as a emergency backup, phew) and put the problem HDD in an external FW enclosure.
I have run Disk Utility on it to try & rectify the problem. Disk First Aid says the disk is fine, but I just couldn't get it to mount. I thought I'd try to erase it and restore from my TM backup, but after I erased the disk, it still couldn't mount. What's worse, now the disk is apparently not writeable, and I can't even erase it. Disk First Aid is still telling me the disk is fine.
I've also tried booting from my SL install disk, but it won't mount the disk to install SL. It is still visible in Disk Utility, but greyed out.
Can anyone advise what I can do to recover the disk?
I can't really bring it in for a warranty exchange, cos I ripped this disk out of the original enclosure, so the enclosure is now completely busted, and obviously the warranty won't be honored. (Buying the external was cheaper than buying just the internal, and Fujitsu had a pretty OK reputation for their harddisks at that point. Could you blame me?)
So any software or hardware (or combination) solution would be great. Worst case scenario is to get a new HDD, but I'd still like to recover the use of this disk somehow.
I got an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD and it runs fine and it's fast when using the computer. But the boot up time is so ridicules slow, slower then my old 500GB 7200RPM drive. My boot up time is around 37 sec with the SSD. The Apple logo came's up and the spinning wheel spinning forever!.
I think I know what the problem is, it's searching for like 25 sec for the first boot drive, and it can't find my SSD. Other people I know here on Macrumors just checked the SSD in the "Start up" in System Preferences and reboot, then they getting fast boot time. When I check my SSD and press reboot, it's still slow and when I later check the Start Up disk, none disk is selected (neither the SSD or "Network startup"...
Here is how it always look like when going in to System Preferences -> Startup Disk after a reboot, none is selected... (sorry for the Swedish language, I hope you will understand)
What should I do to fix this problem? (I've tried to reset NVRAM, PRAM and SMC, but with no luck).
Ever since i did the Macbook EFI Firmware Update 2.0 and Xcode Update 3.2.5 i get a tone at startup. Also, everytime i run software update it tells me that i havent installed the firmware update yet,. I have already tried to update it but it always fails during installation.
