OS X :: Mac Not Start Up - Cannot Run On CD
Jun 25, 2009
So I already put a CD in when my Mac froze and I restarted it. I tried to turn it on and I just get a blank screen while it makes a very loud noise. Turned it off then on, then a blinking folder with question mark. All advice says to run off the CD but I can't put a CD in since my CD won't eject. I also pressed shift, nothing. My hard drive crashed earlier this year and they replaced it, what do I do? I took my CD out by pressing down the trackpad button, installed disk cd, but nothing. Just a blank screen and a lot of noise.
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Apr 14, 2012
My computer won't turn on. Earlier today while playin music it just paused itself. I minute later it resumed. Then tonight it just shut off instead of sleeping and now it won't start. All I can get if I'm lucky is the start up chime and a super quick flash of a white screen.
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MacBook Pro
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Oct 16, 2008
[URL] input Music into vent and whenever I press "start" I either Get an Error Saying "cannot start Jack server, Please Check preferences or retry after a system reboot" or "Fatal error has occurred shutting down." and I reinstalled it and Used the default preferences
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Mar 8, 2009
First off, let me explain the position I am in. I have the newest 13in MacBook with a 2.4Ghz hard drive. I installed Windows Vista on it recently after I got it. Many times while using Vista, all audio would stop and be replaced with crackling sounds. This would continue until I restarted. I tried going to Dell, downloading drivers for the Broadcom 802.11n WiFi Adapters and installing those, but that caused a worse problem. Windows can no longer find any networks, and when I select the Broadcom WiFi Adapters in Device Manager, it says "This device cannot start." and says it's Code 10 or something.
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Apr 10, 2012
My iMac does not start up as usual. I now get a ' start up disk is full. You need to make space available on your start up disk by deleting files' message. Â I am able to key my log on password however I just get the purple galaxy screen with no desktop.Â
If I try to use the keyboard I get a tone when pressing the keys. Â
Has worked perfectly well up until I got this dusk full message. Â
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Jun 21, 2012
computer won't start. tried unplugging and holding in start button. After about a half hour and unplugging a few times, finally got it going. Imac G5
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iMac, MacOS X (10.5)
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Apr 8, 2012
My macbook takes ages to start not sure why
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 6, 2012
My computer is a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Version 10.7.3, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 with 4GB memory. Start-up has become somewhat erratic. Consistently, if I close the lid on the computer it won't restart when I reopen it. I'll have to hold the power button down for about 15 seconds, let up and then press it again. Sometimes restarting after a shutdown the computer will go through the long start-up I associate with a crash shutdown. Sometimes login start-up items don't start up. Sometimes I have to click somewhere on the screen to make the menu bar at the top of the screen visible. Overall, unexpected things keep happening. Although I don't think it probably relates, Chrome is my primary browser.
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Jun 12, 2012
Our 2011 iMac with SSD takes 2:15 (two minutes and fifteen seconds) to start up. Start up on a SSD should be faster. OS X version 10.7.4 and applications are on the SSD. Any suggestions for correcting this lack of speedy start up?
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Mac OS X (10.7.4), 3.4 GHz Intel i7, 16 GB DDR3
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Sep 5, 2014
My start up disk is my hard drive.Â
Whenever I take the hard drive out my laptop just stops working and it's back to normal when I put the hard drive in, is there a way for me to use my laptop without having to physically have my start up disk (hard drive) plugged into my laptop?
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Aug 23, 2014
Macbook Pro can't start up beyond the grey start up screen. There's a spinning wheel and bar that moves to 1/4 before Macbook Pro shuts down automatically.
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MacBook Pro
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Sep 19, 2010
I have the app called "SimpleTask" set to start-up when i turn my Mac on. The icon is just in the top taskbar. The problem is that when i turn my Mac on the window of the app comes up on my desktop and then i have to manually minimize it every time. Is there a way to have it start-up minimized in the taskbar from the start so i dont have to do it manually? There is no option for this in the preferences. There has to be a way to do it thou.
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Apr 6, 2009
My lovely pro has decided that occasionally it doesn't like the idea of starting from sleep and sometimes won't boot up.
The fan runs at full blast (I think it's the CPU fan), a black screen and the power button on the front glows. I don't have any external drives attached, no stat programs running in the background except little snitch. Generally I close all programs before I leave my desk. After I hard reboot, I get a "do you want to send this to apple?" dialogue, with the errors pointing to the nvidia 8800gt. I don't have the full detail of the error box, I'll post it next time it happens.
I've zapped the pram, run the apple diagnostic and unplugged everything to reset the SMC or whatever it is.
About 1/2 of my wakes from sleep, and about 1 in 4 times when starting exhibit this.
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Dec 14, 2010
I am not 100% sure what the offical name of the start up noise is when you turn on your Macbook, however that is all I am geeting when I turn it on. I push the power button, it makes that start up noise of the disc drive... sits... and makes the noise again... sits... makes the noise again and so on and so on. The screen doesnt change at all, just blackness. I was able to start it up once with the start up disc and I thought that was the fix, so before going to sleep I powered down. Woke up the next morning same old bs AND it will not start up off the disc again. Another time after letting it sit and try to boot up for awhile (30mins) it finally did! However after 20-30 mins the screen kind of flickered and then everything froze. Can't get it to turn on at all now. Just that noise over and over and over and over again.
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Jun 9, 2009
my mac book will not re-start any more! these are the messages i get any no what the problem is and how to fix it?
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Apr 26, 2012
I have never had any electrical good not work straight from the box. I never expected that from an Apple product yet my brand new 27" Imac shows no sign of life. No noise, no lights, nothing
Info:iMac
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Dec 22, 2010
I can control what starts up on my iMac as a means to speed up the load time as in Windows?
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Mar 4, 2009
I can't seem to get my Macbook to start up, it rarely gets past the load up screen but when I ran disk utility from the install CD it said the drive is fine, I can't seem to get it to start in safe mode either. I've been having some trouble with the thing lately and know it's time to replace the HD but i'd like to get it running while I order a new one and wait for it to get here. It would also be nice to move a few files to my external HD to.
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Aug 14, 2009
I want to learn programming, from scratch, I have no knowledge of programming itself but am very competent with a computer. I have a MacBook running Leopard and boot camp with XP. I can learn fast and eventually want to go on to write apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform and maybe even games. What programming language should I learn to start with? Preferably not the one that is the easiest to learn but the one that is the most useful.
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Sep 27, 2009
This evening while surfing the net my 2 year old 15" mbp froze. I couldn't force quit or anything and had to result to holding the power button down to shut it off. When I turned it on again it was on the white screen with the apple and spinning circle ( not the beach ball) for more than 10 minutes before it moved on to the login screen. I was able to enter my password. After entering my pw it moved onto a blue screen with the beachball for more than 15 minutes now. what might be wrong or better yet how to fix it?
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Oct 7, 2009
After using my MacBook for about 15 min, it starts to get very hot. Is this normal or should I take it in? It is almost 2 years old, I have Leopard 10.5.8, and this has just started about a month ago. I do have the extended warranty on it, so I know it doesn't hurt to make an appt at the Genius Bar, but I wanted to hear from you if I should go down there or not waste anyone's time!
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Nov 15, 2009
I'm trying to get my Macbook Pro to See my Mac pro on my Network. My MBP i s connected on a wireless and my mac pro is on the LAN.
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Dec 24, 2009
My 3 week old Mac Book Pro just refuses to start up. It gets stuck on the white/grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning wheel under, in other words, the machine won't boot up. I bought the machine new with SL installed, had just been working on it, shut it down properly through the menu, went to eat, tried to start it up and now nothing happends. Except being furious and VERY dispointed on such a new machine,
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Feb 15, 2010
My son's MacBook won't start up. He pushes the power button. The chime rings and then the white screen w/ the gray apple and the gray spinning wheel stays on... nothing else happens. We've tried all of hte following with no result. Start from the system CD. Push power button and hold 'C'. The CD spins for a while and then it's kicked out. Push power button and hold 'Shift'. Push power and hold 'X'. Press the control key, the command key, and the power button simultaneously and hold for three seconds to try to restart the computer. After pressing the power button, hold down these keys simultaneously: Command-Option-P-R, until you hear the start up chime at least one additional time after the initial start up chime. Nothing seems to be working.
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Mar 5, 2010
I use a MacbookPro 2.4 intel duo core - Latest Snow Leopard - 2 gig ram. No trauma in it's life - never been dropped. I have a fair knowledge of computers but by no means am I a techie. Up until now my MBP has been running fine ( no strange behavior or noises etc. ). It now wont start. It refused to wake up from sleep last night. I've pulled the battery, used pwoer adapter etc. In a normal startup - there is a brief whirr sound, followed by the startup chime. My MBP makes the whirr, but thats it - no chime and no further activety. The the screen is blank, there is no keyboard lights, there is no sound if pressing the volume key. - I have tried: - Zapping Pram - Starting it up as a target drive - Plugging in an external drive to start from that -- the drives green LED lit up so assume there's USB power - and the LED will turn red ( but only once so I assume there is no 'conversation' ). - Tried a forced restart using - Cntrl - Power button. This gets me to the initial whirr again but no further. i have NOT yet tried to reset the PMU - how do you do this? Anything else it could be? Anything else I could try? I need it back asap for work - my last resort is to pull the hard drive and try to use it as an external drive to access my info - but I'd like to exhaust all tests before I do that.
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Jul 18, 2009
I've got a problem with my Powerbook G4. It randomly froze 2 days ago and it hasn't been able to turn on since. When I turn it on, it alternates between getting stuck on the plain blue screen, the apple smbol with the circle progress icon and a flash question mark/folder icon. I've tried running it in safe mode but the only result is a small flashing globe symbol. I've also rebooted from the Mac OS X Install/Restore CD and run the Disk Utility Repair Disk procedure which says 'Invalid Volume Header' right away eventually followed by an error message saying first aid failed because the underlying task reported failure on exit. I've got a hold of DiskWarror on another computer but I can't seem to burn it to disc with an autorun command on OS X to be able to reboot from that. I really don't want to have to wipe the entire computer.
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Feb 16, 2012
Ok, I know I've had 2 discussions here already but it still doesn't make sense to me. Everything says its a bad Logic Board. Ok, Power Mac A1074 2.0 DP It hangs at white screen w/ grey apple logo and no spinning wheel. I have ran the Apple hardware diagnostics disc several tims. Everything comes back that all hard ware is GOOD. I try and run the OS diagnostics on the same disc and it hangs at the white screen/grey apple logo. I have replaced the hard drive and started it holding 'option"it reads the Apple OS Install disc (just as it reads the hardware diagnostic disc just fine) when I try to boot from the install disc it again hangs at the white screen/grey apple logo with no spinning wheel.
Info:PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Feb 21, 2012
Mac book pro was accidentally closed during software update and now it does not start up
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Mar 5, 2012
I have a 1.8GHz G5 that will just not boot up. When I start it I get the grey screen with the Apple logo and nothing else. The fan then fires up and up. Have tried starting it in Safeboot mode. In this mode I can hear the initial chime and some activity for about 5-6 secs and then nothing. I have an extra 2GB of Kingston RAM in the machine that I put in a couple of years ago and apart from this nothing has changed apart from upgrading the OS's.
Info:PowerMac, MacOS X (10.5)
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Apr 3, 2012
I have completed the steps suggested for resetting parameters and the start up screen with the apple icon is there along with the timer but it will not proceed
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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