OS X V10.7 Lion :: The Audio On Laptop Is Off For No Apparent (muted) Reason?
Jun 27, 2012The audio on laptop is off for no apparent (muted) reason.
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MacBook Air, iOS 5.1
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OS X :: Crashed For No Apparent Reason?
Nov 24, 2010ok so i suppose the inevitable had to happen. and so my mac OS X crashed badly within a few days of my getting this new MBP!
i had a short word document open in 1 workspace some firefox tabs in another, and was checking out the movies in my ext HDD (formatted with NTFS).and suddenly i start seeing this multi colored round icon which i guess is the cousin of the windows hourglass. after trying unsuccessfully to force quit, i was forced to hut down using the boot up button. yes, the same procedure that wreaks havoc on the HDD.
- so my questions are - what to do if even force quit doesn't work ? its surprising that it didn't in this case, as i have used ubuntu for almost 3 years and never had the OS crash on me! of course there were a few application crashes but the force quit always worked. and there was the keyboard shortcut - Ctrl+Alt+Del.
- also what is the norm with macs in this regard ? do they crash often and for the flimsiest of reasons as in my case ?
- probably i am not aware of the Mac OS equivalent for the Ctrl+Alt+Del function that almost always works in ubuntu. so is there some key combination that is guaranteed to work in the even that even force quit does not?
OS X :: High CPU Usage For No Apparent Reason?
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I checked the Console and nothing appeared to be repeating itself, so what I did was use MainMenu to perform a batch of system maintenance tasks, and then left my Mac on overnight to see what Console would report. Besides hourly instances of "kernel" running "iCalHelper" and "SubmitDiagInfo", there was nothing else.
However, launchd lowered its CPU usage to about 3%, but it is still constant and my CPU is still at a constant 40-50%. Activity Monitor says the following processes are (constantly) taking only 1-4% of the CPU:
coreservicesd
launchd
mds
WindowServer
disnoted
activitymonitord
...and others
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MacBook Pro :: It Has Just Started Getting Really Warm For No Apparent Reason?
May 23, 2012Should I use my Apple Care, or is there a quick fix?
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MacBook Pro
Intel Mac :: Shuts Down By Itself Ocassionally For No Apparent Reason
Jun 28, 2012My iMac shuts down by itself ocassionally for no apparent reason.It happened overnight last night.Here's the Problem Details report that appeared on restart. [code]
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X Mavericks :: MacBook Pro Keeps Crashing For No Apparent Reason?
Aug 27, 2014my MacBook Pro keeps crashing.Â
Anonymous UUID:Â Â
BF278BF8-0869-27D0-A095-E98FAAEDED88
Wed Aug 27 14:18:24 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80250dc24e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80250c6d91, type 13=general protection, registers:
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
OS X Yosemite :: (10.10.1) IMac Restarts For No Apparent Reason
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Apr 4, 2012i was trying to install PreSonus Studio One v.1 and then i upgrade it to v.2 and both of them crashes for no reason?
Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â studioapp [4407]
Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /Applications/Studio One 2.app/Contents/MacOS/studioapp
Identifier:Â Â Â Â Â com.presonus.studioone2
Version:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2.0.4 Build 17496 (2.0.3)
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MacBook :: Speakers Click When The Sound Is Muted?
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FaceTime :: Microphone Cuts Out Or Get Muted During Calls
Mar 30, 2012Why does facetime mic cut out or go mute during calls?
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.7 GHz Intel i7
MacBook Pro :: The Sound Doesn't Work - Volume Is Muted And Can't Unmute
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