I've installed Boot Camp, but every time I restart it logs automatically into windows, so I'm forced to hold down the ALT key to choose which operating system I want to log into. But I'd rather have it automatically log in to OS X, since that's the OS i use 99% of the time.
View 1 RepliesI have a late 2007 Mac Pro 8 core 3.0ghx, system with 16 gigs of Ram. Two hd, one with OSX 10.5.2 and one with Vista Ultimate x64. I have a mac mouse and keyboard.
I have unpredictable, spontanious reboots. This happen on either OS's. I DO NOT have "reboot on power failure" check marked in the power savings menu. Once this cycle starts it gets worse, until the system just loops non stop at the beginning of the boot sequence, just a clicking can be heard. I have to power button off and unplug to stop it. Then when it reboots it sometimes happens again and other times not. Sometimes I may be moving the mouse or clicking then it just reboots. Or I might try to start a program, and it reboots.
I took it to the 'Genious Bar', this guy told me to make sure its grounded propery on the outlet, that it must be a three prong outlet with a properly connected ground. And to uncheck "reboot on power failure" Which i told him it was not checked. Of course it did not reboot or show any signs of a problem while I was there. I came home and moved the computer to a new outlet. It ran fine (as it did in the store) for about a week, then the problem came back. I had not changed anything.
I ran a harware test and everything came back fine, so no problem with bad RAM etc. Is it possible to have a bad power supply, would this be a symptom? Or possibly a bad power cord? And why would my computer reboot instead of power off, if I have unchecked "reboot on power failure" ?!?
Anyone experiencing anything like this? Any ideas, things to try? The computer is unusable at this point and has rebooted while using programs, that the programs will not longer start and have to be reinstalled.
I made a Boot camp partition for windows 7 and today I deleted it. Now when I reboot my MBP, if i don't press Option key it will hang and then say No boot device could be found or something along those lines. Everything works fine if I use the Option key and manually select Macintosh HD.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
As of yesterday my battery no longer holds a charge. Was running fine on the power cord. Now this morning when I boot up the computer. It goes on the apple loading screen, gives me the apple sound but instead of loading into the desktop. It goes back to the gray screen with the apple in the middle loading. It does this repeatedly and won't load onto the desktop. Need some advise on what I need to do. I'm also not sure if I have any of the original boot disks.
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Mac info:
2008 Mac Pro, 2 3.2 Ghz xeon's
128 GB SSD
14 GB Memory
3 x 1 TB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
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Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I've had my Macbook (10.5.8) for over two years and have had no problems until recently. It's crashed twice in the past month, and before that (for a few months) it has been extremely slow. I've cleaned out everything I didn't need and placed most of my documents onto a external hard drive in hopes that this would speed things up - it has not. When the thing crashes it basically reboots itself with out any warning, losing my data. Both times this has happened I had photoshop and Acrobat 6.0 Professional open (I've been editing photos of texts of my research and turning them into pdf - some of these files are quite large (400 colored pages) ie. 600mb). The system usually crashes and reboots while I am editing an unsaved pdf in Acrobat.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Lion
Yesterday my wife's iMac froze and she tried powering off manually by holding the power button down on the back of the machine. Then she tried to boot it back up and got the welcome screen but she couldn't select an account to login to. Tries restarting again and gets a blank blue screen.
Call me out to take a look.
Not knowing much, I googled some help sites and performed the following:
SMC reset
PRAM reset
Verified disk permissions and repaired disk permissions
Boot from install disk (repaired permissions and verify disk)
Restarted and everything seemed to be working fine. Until this afternoon. She was in the middle of an upload and the computer restarted itself. She's in the middle of the upload again (almost finished). But when it's finished, I'd like to troubleshoot this some more.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have a problem with OS X 10.7.3 on my MacBook Air 13'' Mid 2011:
What happens:
System hung yesterday. I tried to reboot, the macbook chimes, the apple logo with spinning gear appears, then screen with gray textured background and apple logo on top-center appears. No spinning wheel or somthing. I can use mouse cursor, but there is no login screen. I waited an hour and tried to rebbot again, but...
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My IMac PowerPC G5 is rebooting itself. I have tried resetting PRAM, to no avail. What should I try next?
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PowerMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Brought my iMac to store because it kept shutting down and rebooting on its own. Been 12 days and still haven't heard back from them and when I call I get the run around of the computer repair being "in progress". What to do next?
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iMac
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However, Time Machine only lets you choose what to exclude, it doesn't let you specify special sources to backup. I was thinking a symbolic link from /Volumes, but I've no idea where to point it to. A second relevant question as well would be; how do I get OS X to automatically connect to a Windows share when it's available? The Windows machine isn't always on when I start up my Mac, but I don't want to have to manually connect all the time
I am currently using OSX 10.5.8 Leopard and have run into a problem. When ever I attempt to mount a .DMG file, Finder goes unresponsive and will not re launch. The .DMG is downloaded from a verified clean source and the default program to open is the Disk Image Mounter Utility. I try going to /System/Library/Core Services, and I see the Disk Image Mounter Utility listed, yet when I attempt to open it, nothing happens and it is not even listed in the activity monitor. I have tried mounting several .DMG files and each time the same problem occurs and can only be solved by rebooting the system. I have just recently tried updating my software to the latest version and still no fix.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
my IMac is 27 - inch, late 2009 - Software OS X Yosemite V 10.10.1
I cannot access AHT by rebooting and holding down the "D" key
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iMac
sometimes expose stops working and rebooting is a PITA. is there a way to reset expose without rebooting?
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