OS X :: Mac Does Not Always Shut Down - Need Reinstall?
Apr 6, 2010
I love my mac, and I know people swear by them but lately, things have just been falling apart on my mac. For starters, note the weird graphics on the dock in the attachment. Secondly, my mac doesn't always shut down, it sometimes stalls on the blue screen with the spiral thingy and other times it just stalls on a blank desktop. Then I get other strange, irregular problems from time to time, I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or if I should just start again. I have a RevA MBA, running Snow Leopard.
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Apr 7, 2009
I am getting a pop up "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now?".
The one we get, if pressed the power button to switch it off?. The problem is not consistent and mostly I get if left inactive for some time(random). I have run the hardware test(installer DVD and pressing D) without any issue found.
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Jun 1, 2010
Or is it better to leave it on for weeks?
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Sep 15, 2010
My Late '09 Mac Mini absolutely will not shut down normally through the command. (specs in sig) I went through the command yesterday, took a nap and when I came back to the computer nearly 5 hours later it still hadn't I've fixed permissions. Is there anything I can do?
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Apr 2, 2007
My friend is using a Power Mac G5 and it will not shut down. When shut down is selected, it gets to a blue screen with the rotating progress wheel, or whatever, that is seen on start up. It will stick to this screen until the computer is forced off by holding down the power button. Also, occasionally, when the computer is powered on, the fan runs at full speed and nothing happens until it is forced off and turned on again. I'm guessing these two issues might be related. Any suggestions on what to do? We have tried unplugging all USB devices.
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Aug 26, 2008
I click shut down and nothing happens.
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Dec 15, 2008
For some reason, my Mac Pro wants to shut down all the time. Every 10 mins or so the message, "Do you want to shut down etc. etc." comes up with the usual options of Restart/Sleep//ShutDown or Cancel. I click on cancel and it goes away for 10 mins, sometimes less, sometimes more.
No idea what's causing this at all. I normally keep it turned on all the time but I went away for the weekend so I shut everything down in the office - I know it got pretty cold in there (maybe even freezing) so I'm worried I've done some damage due to the cold?
Nothing has been installed but I have no idea where to check or what to do now. It's my main computer - I use it for work all the time and would be at a loss if I needed to send it away so I'm hoping someone will have heard of this and have a solution
I;ve searched around a lot and all I can see is people having trouble to get their macbook's to shut down - this is the other way around!
Oh, Mac Pro, 4 quad intel, 4gb ram I think and 750gb hard drive. The power is connected to a UPS but that doesn't seem at fault.
Update:
It seems to be only doing it when I'm away for a while - maybe when it's trying to sleep or shut down the hard drive? I did have it set to Never for going to sleep and I have changed that last night so it's not the Sleep side of things. I will try unticking the Put the hard disk to sleep now and see if that makes a difference. I also see the option "Allow power button to sleep the computer" so if the previous attempt doesn't work I'll try that - I suppose that will identify whether it's the power button or not
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Jun 10, 2009
My early 08 MBP has seemed to have lost the ability to do the above 3 functions. Pressing the power button does not bring up the shut down/restart/sleep menu and going through the menu bar and clicking "shut down" does nothing either. Pressing cmd + shift + Q does nothing when it used to bring up the log out option. It's only been like this the past few days, I noticed when I was prompted to reboot for the SMC update but OSX did nothing after I clicked the reboot button. The only way to shut down or reboot is to perform a forced shut down.
I've repaired disk permissions, repaired the disk, reset the SMC and the PRAM but nothing has worked.
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Jan 26, 2010
I was unsure where to post this as it could be either OSX or hardware that is the problem. I am currently unable to shutdown my 2008 Alu iMac. Everytime I shut it down, it restarts instead.
After a little bit of searching the forums/google, I understand that this may be something to do with a driver or application that is refusing to close properly - but have no idea how to try and identify what may be causing it.
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May 29, 2010
I have an I Book G4 and am not having much luck with it! I have had these grey shut down notices before, which led to freezing and loss of applications. I had it in to a Mac store where they told me I had serious hard drive damage (? hardly used, may have been dropped with out my knowledge..) They were able to fix it, and its been great for over 10 months now.Today I was in my yahoo msgr account and wanted to open safari. My screen went grey and told me to shut down. Bad sign right?I cant seem to find anything that is a panic file in my history, but in my logs, for that crash it did say= Reason: Data stall on channel 7 while on a call, and then it lists a bunch about various signal strengths
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Aug 10, 2010
I'm sure this is do-able as someone's mentioned it; Can you set a MBP so that it doesn't go to sleep when the lid's shut and it's connected to an external display? Got meself a Mini-DP to VGA adapter yesterday but it's off-putting watching streamed TV with the mac open next to it!
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Sep 22, 2005
Every time I try to shut down my Mac (G4 running Panther) instead of shutting down it restarts!!! Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong?
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Jul 15, 2009
I have an iBook G4 running OX 10.4.11. Recently I have had an intermittent problem where it won't shut down when I choose "Shut Down". The little warning box ("really want to shut down?" 2 minute warning, etc.) comes up, but whether I tell it to shut down immediately, or wait for the 2 minutes, the result is that same: it just ignores the command altogether. It doesn't freeze up or anything; it just ignores the command.
So far, I've been able to log out, then successfully choose shut down from the resulting login window, so that's been a workaround, but that shouldn't be my only shutdown option.
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Feb 15, 2012
My new macbook pro 13inch is taking forever to shut down. When i clicked the shutdown button, everything goes on as per normal till it reaches the white screen with the roller and it just stays there forever, draining battery till I force shut it down.
Info:MacBookPro
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Feb 17, 2012
I just converted from Windows to Mac yesterday and today I'm trying to shut down my Mac, but there's no Start button! How can I get my Start Button back?
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Feb 25, 2012
I can't shut down my MacBook Pro. Each time I try, I get the following message: "The Finder can't quit because some operations are still in progress." How can I determine what is running?
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MacBookPro
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Mar 20, 2012
I spilled Gatorade on my MacBook Pro and now if i don't touch the trackpad for about 4 seconds it asks if i want to shut down, go to sleep, or restart. If i don't hit cancel within about 5 seconds it will shut off. It will also shut off if i close it. The only way it stays on is if i hold down the command key.
Info:MacBookPro
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Mar 23, 2012
Why my macbook pro does not shut down?
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
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Apr 3, 2012
My Mac Mini with Lion OS does not shut down on its own. Everytime I have to forcefully shut it .
Info:Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 8, 2012
Anyone know what to do, I can't get safari to shut down so I can shut down my computer. When I try to just shut it off with the off button it tells me to shut down safari first and it is greyed out so I can't. I thought you could push command and q but nothing happens then either.
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Apr 23, 2012
My mac does not shut down, the blue screen is there for ever. to shut it down I have to do that manually, but i am afraid to damage my mac by switching it always like that!
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May 1, 2012
I'm a new Mac user. A few days ago, I tried to turn my Mac Air off by clicking "shut down" as I always do.But it wouldn't shut down.Moreover, there was no indication that I had even clicked "shut down." No rainbow circle telling me to wait.Days later, I'm still trying to restart or shut down my Mac, and I can't.It's like my computer isn't hearing what I want it to do!I press "shut down" and nothing at all happens.I can, however, just resume using my Mac as usual (internet works, ITunes opens, etc.)I've been browsing forums all day and nothing has helped.
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MacBook Air
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May 7, 2012
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro, and everytime I open iTunes and sync one of my iDevices, my MacBook Pro won't shut down. I went in Disk utility, fixed the permissions, verified my HardDrive and everything appeared to be OK.
This is really staring to anoy me because, I can shut down my MacBook Pro but I have to do a force shut down and that damage's the HD!
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 750 GB HD, 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM
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May 18, 2012
I can't shut down my iMac, only by pushing the button on the backside.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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May 23, 2012
since updating to lion i have had nothing but trouble. i had to change to use sync as i had been using mobileme. my imac would be stable for >50 days with loads of applications up and running. the best i can get now is 5 hours. the machine crashes, will not shut down (grey screen rotating bars for hours on end)
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May 28, 2012
I have a Mac Pro 8 core XEON with OSX LION, 22gb Ram, Ati 1gb to conect an Apple Led Cinema 27" anda Apple HD Cinema 23", two hard drives 1tb and 350gb, 2 external hard drives 500 gb, and 1tb. Now frequenly my mac shut down without anyreason, sometimes doesnt start up properly and a i have to restart.Â
What can i do to solve this problem?Â
I have my mac pro and all the other thins conected to an UPS.
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Jun 8, 2012
My Macbook Pro will not shut off or restart. It just hangs. Incidentally the same happend with my Mac Pro.
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Jun 30, 2012
MY iMac hangs at the blank screen when attempting to shut it down..All OS is up to date.
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IMAC DUAL CORE 2.4 MHZ, 4 GHZ RAM
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Jul 1, 2012
Can't Quit Safari so can't shut down mac. Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong.
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Jul 4, 2012
i tried to set up icloud but not its greyed out and now i cant even shut down my mac air?
Info:MacBook Air
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