Whenever I startup my macbook pro recently, the small startup tune has suddenly become really loud and there doesn't seem to be any way of making it quieter. Anybody with any idea what caused it and how to solve it?
View 4 RepliesIn the 6 years I've had this Mac Pro 1,1 I've never heard the fans this loud. I'm running 10.7.4 and have a FCP Compressor job running, which I've done quite often, but it's never caused the fans to be audible. It's to the point where It's really distracting. Â I regularly run high CPU activities on this machine (graphic renders, video transcoding, etc..) and have never heard the fans or gotten the speed to go beyond 650rpm (checking on the iStat Pro widget). The temps on the machine are 83 and 85 f on both CPUs (i've also noticed the temps are displayed differently after 10.7.4 update was done). But for some reason, the exhaust and CPU fans are running at full output (2800 rpm each). Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 12g Ram
I have my imac apart right now and replaced the internal HD as it was not working. I assume the problem is the new one is not formatted with OSX, so from the INSTALL CD I opened the disk utility and see only one drive called "MEDIA".? Or is that just part of the install dvd that looks like a HD? In the system it shows as not formatted, 0 bytes. When selected in Partition it says :
"This voume is the startup volume and cannot be erased. Size 7.1 GB The disk is not writable and cannot be partitioned"
So i guess thats not my new HD I am seeing? Other than that there is only the two OSX install CD icons.
is it just me or did my macbook's speakers get low? it seems like they aren't as loud as they used to be! did i perhaps mess with something? i went to the settings and checked the sound settings but everything there seems to be ok! i have the volume on my mac. all the way up, and itunes is also turned up!
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy iMac suddenly making a really loud noise and I had to turn down the computer and reboot it
This happened several times and I'm not sure what is the cause of it
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iMac, iOS 7
I boot the iMac, the volume of the single note that it makes when starting up is very loud. I've turned the volume down but when it reboots, it goes back to the original loud setting.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm starting to feel vibrations and some kind of "staticky" sound when I play any videos or music near or at loudest volume. Could it be possibly due to a loose screw? I noticed that on the bottom of my notebook, one screw seems to be slightly looser than the others.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an older 15" powerbook Titanium. About five years old now. Been working pretty well all five years, save for an external hinge I had to replace. Last night, the computer started buzzing from the insides, a buzzing reminiscent of a distant chainsaw. The program i was working in (firefox) just went to the pinwheel of doom and never recovered. I moved to the finder, which did the same. I forced booted. Same noise. Same problems. I can use programs for a few minutes, but then they pinwheel of doom and the computer freezes out.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have Black MacBook with 10.7.3 in it when i press alt/option while starting the laptop the startup manager wont come and OS X boots.
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MacBook (13-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I just received my new Mac Pro from apple on Saturday. This thing is a beast! I am planning on running apps from Final Cut Studio 3, Photoshop, After Effects, and others. 2.66 Quad/6GB RAM (OWC)/640GB HD/ATI 4870
I have a few questions.
1.) Is it normal for the Mac Pro's fans to make a lot of noise when you first start it up or wake it from sleep? My fans make a lot of noise for about 16 seconds or so.
2.) I am planning to put a second optical drive in it. Is there a way to eject only one tray at a time, or will it do both?
Now, I am selling my iMac for around $800 and I am looking at some upgrades:
An additional 21.5" Acer LCD display
A mini display port to dvi adapter
A LG blu ray burner
Two 1TB samsung internal HDs
A blu ray player (I do not have one yet)
Elgato Eye TV hybrid
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 15'' early 2013 since one year ago. I´ve noticed some distortion when playing loud music but I cannot say if it happened before. If the speaker can be damaged because of playing loud music? Is there any way of checking if the speaker has been damaged?Â
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I just got a mac mini on thursday, went on a small trip on friday-sunday. When i came home to my sleeping mac mini and woke it, it made a TERRIBLY loud fan clicking noise. My old PB 12" made this noise after I had dropped it on floor from about 3 feet. I didnt drop my mac mini, i barely used it for 2 hours before i had to leave on my trip. The sound eventually goes away though, once the mini heats up a little i guess. So i'm pretty convinced it's the fan, but why would it suddenly do this?
10.9.5 Retina Display 2.7GHz 16GB
In the past week my volume suddenly gets 50% to 70% louder and after a few moments it returns to the original sound. This happens two or three time in an hour.
Just got a brand new macbook pro, and eve since I first started it up it has made this weird noise right before the start up audio. i have done some research and i have found out that there are two superdrives that apple puts into their macbooks and that one is louder then the other, but this was back in 2009. should apple have fixed that through out all these years. what should i do?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have a Rev A 12 inch Powerbook - 867 mHz, 640 RAM, 40 GB hard drive. The machine's always been reliable and has performed great over the years. I bought it the last week of July, 2003.
Yesterday, the Pbook was shut down, and I press the on button so it would boot up. Almost immediately, the hard drive makes a loud, whirring noise. The computer advances to the gray screen with the Apple logo, but it doesn't get past that point and the noise continues, as if it's a car engine that just won't start...
I'm going to take it to my local Apple Store in the morning, and hopefully the data, including my nearly 22 GB of music, can be saved. Any thoughts on how to get my computer working again? By the way, it's the original hard drive installed. Hopefully this is enough info to generate some ideas, I'm stumped.
I am having a problem with my volume on my iMac. It is turned all the way up. and I keep turning it down everytime but when I restart or shutdown the computer when it boots back up it is back at being 100% volume again. How do I fix this to where it is at a decent volume at startup?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe 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.
View 11 Replies View Relatedhow can i change the default volume level in SL upon startup? it used to startup with whatever level it was at before i restarted. now it readjust each time.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Onyx and I did the usual diagnostic. It then says that "startup volume needs to be repaired" and that I need to boot into my Mac Os X install DVD and go to Disk Utility. I put in the DVD, press restart, and hold C. While my mac is rebooting it ejects the disk and takes me back to my normal desktop. What did I do wrong? Or what can I do to fix it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSadly I have a feeling I will be here asking for help for most of the week (if not month) as I run into problems.
Everytime I reboot my system, my volume is set to the max. I can lower it without issue, and if I log out and back in, the volume stays the same. It only happens when I reboot. Anyone know why this is happening and/or how I would go around fixing the issue?
Edit: I think the issues I am running into are caused by bad permissions on most of the com.apple.* files. Will the file be recreated with the correct permissions if I move/delete the files? If not, what should the permissions be so I can manually change them back.
Before I forget, yes I have been repairing permissions, but not all the files are being fixed.
I have an iPod Touch and it hasn't ever given me problems with syncing music until recently. Everytime I try to sync music onto it on itunes with my Mac computer (which is how I always do t) it won't let me. A message pops up that says "An unknown error has occured (13019)." Does anyone know what 13019 means? Is it a code for the type of error it is?
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iPod touch
is there anyway to change the start-up AUDIO volume from being at full blast to something less loud?? Same with when you unplug headphones, it always go to full blast!
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm using Onyx every so often when things start to get sluggish. Recently, things keep flying out of whack for no obvious reason. Like, USB ports stop working, or icons won't load. When I run Onyx, it tells me that the startup volume needs repair. I'll put in the Snow Leopard disk, repair the startup volume and return to Onyx, which then says everything is fine and goes about its business. Then, after not too long, things fly out of whack again and I'll need to repair the startup volume again.
What causes the startup volume to need repair? Is there some way I can avoid this kind of thing? Is there something I'm doing that's making this happen?
This would be an obnoxious problem to try and recreate for the Apple store people. Taking it in there, they'll probably just repair the startup volume and send me on my way.
The problem began with the Mac running slow and then freezing. Shutting down and restarting (if possible) gave some improvements until finally I got to a point where I could not open up anything from the desktop. I was able to open up my applications from a Firefox image on the desktop. If I placed anything in the applications folder I could open it up as normal. After doing some back up I then began to try different lines of appraoch for solutions:
First: I went into the Disk Utility and verified the disk and repaired permissions. This did not solve the problems.
Second: I booted the computer with TechTool Deluxe. I ran the tests and it found an error on the Volume it scanned---Error -4. I then did a repair of this error which went through successfully. The program then proceeded with another scan and uncovered Error -694. I let it run through the fix process but chose not to save the changes because it eliminated so much of my data. I was hoping I could find another solution before having to resort what appeared to me to be so drastic.
Third: I thought I might try and re-install Mac OS X 3.9 but there was no volume showing to write it to.
Fourth attempt: I tried to boot the computer with my Mac OS X installer CD and then to use disk utility from there. I noticed that my startup volume appeared in the list of options within disk utility but was 'greyed ' out instead of bold faced. I was able to select it and run the Repair function but that failed. I also noticed that when I selected that start up disk it said it was unmounted. I clicked on the mount button but that did not do anything. I then quit installer and it asked me to choose a startup disk, I chose Network Setup since it was the only option. After that when I would try and start the computer I would get a flashing world sign followed by the folder with a flashing question mark. I realize now it was trying to start from that Network Setup, but could not and afterward it could not find anything to boot from and thus the question mark
Fifth attempt: I tried to boot into Safe Mode. I could not. I tried to boot while holding down the Option key. Startup Disk Manager comes on the screen but there are no start up disks to choose from. It appears my Hard Disk has vanished.
Sixth attempt: I then booted again from TechTool Deluxe and ran through the whole process again, but for some reason the repairs could not be completed. I tried several times but the program keeps giving me the same message: "The Volume Structure Rebuild could not be completed"
The best I can figure is that I had a progressively failing hard drive which finally totally gave out. This seems to be the best explanation for all of the problems but I am hoping that someone on here might have a solution for me which I have not discovered yet.
ive tried to install my new hdd (seagate barracuda 1tb) and i startup with option key but i get a padlock with password?.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6)
I have problem that occur in my Mac product below MacBook Pro15-inch, Mid 2012Software OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) <--- which is mavericks versionÂ
my question as above title, my iTunes sudden start playing music without clicking the apps.I have try search to fix the this, but it still do this. It happen after i updated this OS X.
I'm running 10.7.3 on an iMac Intel core i7. When I restart and hold Option key, nothing happens. The PRAM shortcut worked, but I cannot for the life of me, get the boot options to appear! Need to boot from external drive.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
however today suddenly the superdrive decided to make a 1-2 second 'seeking' sound at *every* startup. there is no dvd inserted nor have i used it even once in this week. it does this at the grey apple screen at the same time the apple "chime" sounds.
i am pretty sure it didn't to this up until today, i am not particularly concerned but why would it start doing this after a week on its own?
I'll be using my Macbook Pro and the screen will suddenly go black (but still dimly lit), my music will stop, and I can hear that the computer is still "on". I have to press the power button to shut it off and turn it back on. Usually it comes back on slowly and is fine. Just a few minutes ago, the same thing happened, however the screen went blank white instead of black. The music stopped, and the computer was still "on" but I couldn't do anything until I turned it off and back on.
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macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
