My G5 has a feature some people might like, but I don't. Every once in awhile, at least once a week, my G5 starts up on its own. I have to be sure I turn down my audio whenever I shut down or the start up chimes will shock the whole house. Can anyone lead me to a solution? This has been going on for a few months.
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G5 single; FCP 5.1.4
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
It started a few days ago.... suddenly, the Computer switches off and the Power LED blinks continues very fast.But at irregular times. It seem to me, when I am not working on it. (I have also connected a PC to the same monitor and keep switching the monitor).
Yesterday i was working all evening, and it did not switch off. This morning while start up it turned off.I checked the memory in My Mac and all 16 GB show up. after I push the power switch for a while and turn it off, I can boot up again (except this morning, where I had to restart after the crash)  Â
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Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Black Magic Extreme HD, GB RAM, 4 TB HDD
Starts to power up from either mains supply or battery, but always switches off after anywhere from 10 seconds to a few minutes. Chimes, usually gets as far as screen coming on etc but then you hear the power cut and it just switches off (sometimes gets as far as login screen). Have tried NVRAM reset SMC etc.
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MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
The fans starts but no video... nothing?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Whenever i plug the power cord into my mac book pro my computer never starts to charge? I have tryed this on various different outlets and have also tryed thsi with the two and three pronged adapters and it still is not working.Â
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iMac
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My maccbook pro with Lion (10.7.4) takes 10 min to starts. and every time I restart it tooks more time.
When I bought my macbook it starts in few seconds!!Â
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
My imac starts typing by itself it usually starts in safari and if I open any other program it will continue in that. It also continuously toggles rapidly between items in the lists of drop down menus. Other weird stuff happening too like if I put it to sleep and re-login it will delete any text I try to put in the password box.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Here is my setup..
The BSNL modem's LAN 1 is connected to the iMac.
It all works fine.
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Like the internet starts going on and off continuously.
I dont understand, what is the reason.
Mail started quitting a few days ago, just after it starts. I tried everything that has been suggested for these cases: removed beta version of Safari, remove Growl and any other third parties, remove the preferences file (.plist) and the user/Library/Mail folder. Nothing works! I set up another account on my Mac and Mail works there! I tried to use the new files that Mail generated for this new account for the old account but I couldn't make Mail to run.
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System Info:
OS X 10.5.7
MacBook Pro 4.1
Firefox 3.0.10
App: Download Status Bar
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
My MacBook Pro which is only a year old was working fine, the only small problem was that it wouldn't play a video, so I restarted it but it never came back on. So I restarted it manually, the small light on the edge lit up, the screen with the apple came up along with the load bar, the empty load bar flashes a couple of times then the computer totally shuts off. Have turned starting in safe mode, same thing. Have tried starting holding down apple + option + R + P when turning on, same thing, have started starting up with the install disc in, same thing..
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have an old g4 , the kind shaped like half a golf ball, which starts up and then quits at different places during the process. Sometimes with the gray screen and Apple logo, sometime later when the OS has fully installed,but fails quite rapidly after that. Then tries to reboot itself with varying degrees of failure.
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mac g4, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
So here the whole story of what I think is relevant to this problem.I tried to install a small program that can read and write NFTS.After installing it needed to reboot my computer.During the reboot my computer shut down before the things were completely installed.My macbook Pro (mid 2009) rebooted and immideiatly stated that the time and date was set to jan 1st 2008.When I tried to adjest this in preferences > time and date the preferences pane did not respond after opening it.I tried to restart my computer again.But now it will only start in Safe mode.
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Info:MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I tried out pram nvram resetting, hardware check is not working either because my keyboard only writes in capital letters
I also tried booting from the instal dvd, booting from the ubunto live cd, nothing worked at all.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
I'm really struggling to understand why my 2010 mini has trouble playing some QT videos that my 2006 mini handles just fine! The two machines are:Â
Macmini 1.1 (1.83 GHz)
intel Dual Core
Memory 2GB
Bus Speed: 667
Graphics Card GMA 950
VRAM: 64MB
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The problem first presented itself as I am working on a generative video installation using Max6. I've used the older mini for the installations for some time with very few issues. I've been using the newer mini for video processing, compression, and editing and making DVDs and blu-ray disks. No issues there that I have noticed either. However, when I recently tried to use the newer mini to run the generative video, I noticed that several of the videos were stopping and then starting up again (skipping). I know that Max can sometimes have trouble with videos due to processing issues - but why would it work fine on the older, less powerful machine and only have issues on the newer one?Â
To begin troubleshooting, I ran one of the videos in Quicktime on the newer mini to see if similar issues arose, and they do. No problem on the older mini. The video is formatted in DVCPRO50 anamorphic format, and I am using the same monitor in both cases (1440x900,60Hz), connected by VGA to the monitor PC input. I know that Quicktime can have similar issues with very large files sometimes, but I still don't see why the newer machine stumbles with the same video that runs fine on the older one.Â
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Everytime I start up my iMac (2011, 27 inch, OS X 10.7.4 Lion) it starts on what seems to be safe mode. After starting up on safe mode, I restart (not shut down, just restart) again, then it comes back normally.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
today my cpu fan starts running at 44 ºC cpu temperature, and does not stop. is this normal? it has never started before in 4 years... should i be worried about my mac dying or so?
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iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4 GB RAM 1TB
