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  1. jakesh

    MP 1,1-5,1 mac pro 2,1 (originally 1,1) 2006 failure

    Hello, a little history: In February 2019 I managed to upgrade old mac pro 1,1. I cleaned all dust away, got new CPUs, RAM, GFX card. My mac pro configuration is as follows: Mac Pro 2,1 (after firmware update) running el Capitan 2x Intel Xeon X5365 SLAED Radeon HD5770 1GB DDR5 4x FB-DIMM DDR2...
  2. d3vCr0w

    2006 Mac Pro (1,1) Change boot.efi on pre-installed Yosemite Hard Drive

    Hi people, I have a Mac Pro 1.1 with an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card (the pc flashed one), 6GB of RAM and the original 2 x 2,66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors, and I have been trying to install anything newer than Lion on it but I've had no success. The last OS I tried to install is...
  3. dan_mcd

    Help! MBpro won't boot.

    Hello MacRumors, you beautiful bunch of clever minds. My early 2011 MBpro died suddenly last night, now it turns on (blue light on the right hand side of the keyboard comes on) but the screen remains blank and doesn't get to the boot noise or boot. I am hoping to be able to pick the...
  4. kingseamus

    Mac Pro 4,1 Often Booting to Black Screen

    I've got an early 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 that's often booting to a black screen that hangs indefinitely until I manually restart and try to power on again. This seems to happen about 60% of the time when I try to boot up. Tried resetting PRAM and NVRAM but these resets didn't resolve the issue...
  5. O

    iMac G4 won't boot, fan twitches

    Alright guys, so I'm having some troubles with an old flowerpot iMac. About a month ago I knocked a glass of water on the desk where the computer is sitting. There was no splash to speak of, the water just spilled around the base of the iMac. I immediately pulled the plug, but didn't feel like...
  6. M

    Booting/Speed Problems With External SSD

    I seem to be digging myself deeper with my USB 3.0 Samsung T3 external drive that is running OS Sierra 10.12.6. The T3 has been my boot drive for my 2012 i7 16GB RAM Mac Mini since December 2016. I lost the ability to boot the SSD immediately after installing an Apple security update. When I...
  7. J

    I left the church of Zapping PRAM but have returned

    I've used Macs since they came out. I used to routinely zap PRAM about once a year as part of regular maintenance or when boot problems arose. Over the years, maybe 5-10 years ago, zapping the PRAM didn't seem to help so much, so I drifted away from using it and didn't miss it. I love Mac...
  8. B

    Mac Pro 1.1 boot up issue

    Hi all, My Mac Pro 1.1 upgraded to 2.1 has stopped booting up. It does not react to any key combinations after the chime sound. I have tried resetting PRAM, booti up from network, removed rams and all devices and left only 2 RAM modules in. It does not pick up any HDDs/DVD/USB, just sits on...
  9. lightningsalesuk

    iPhone 6 Boot loop wont turn off.

    I am having some troubles with my iPhone. When I turn it on it will show the apple logo for around a second then turn off and show the apple logo for around a second and so on until it runs out of battery. I cannot physically turn off the device once I have turned it on. Turning it off will not...
  10. doubleohkevin

    MacBook Pro will only recognize one specific internal hard drive

    I'm working on a friend's MacBook Pro that would start to a flashing folder with a question mark. The directory was out of whack, so I repaired that. Then found out the hard drive is physically failing, so I cloned everything over to a new drive. I still had problems with drives being recognized...
  11. Roningumi

    Help : HDD system desappeared after attempting to install Windows10

    Hi Guys I need help I own a macbook pro mid 2012. The hdd is replaced with a 256 GB ssd (sierra installed). I tried to install Windows10 so I launch bootcamp and prepared a usb with the Windows ISO, than I created a 50 GB bootcamp partition for Windows10. The machine restarted and I started...
  12. Antanast

    Mac will not boot

    Hi everyone. Instead of shutting down normally I kept the power button pressed and forced a shutdown. After that my mcb wont boot. It was an apfs drive and was in the process of encrypting. I am on High Sierra. I tried recovery and all sorts of things but nothing. I booted with...
  13. RedFlag

    Prohibitory sign after Sierra update, unmountable partition

    Hello. Yesterday I decided to update to Sierra from El Capitan on both the disks on my Macbook Pro (mid 2012); the update on my SSD went without a hitch so I decided I'd update my other disk, too. I downloaded the .app and the installation started as normal; once it got to the point where I'd...
  14. N

    MacBook stuck on Apple's logo(Not Booting)

    Model: Late 2013. OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.5 Below are the list of things I tried: 1. SMC Reset 2. PRAM RESET 3. Safe mode(failed): Stuck on Apple logo. 4. Recovery Mode(failed): Skips showing the disk utility and starts booting again(Shows apple logo). 5. Internet Recovery mode(failed): After...
  15. H

    Black Screen of Death

    Hello! I recently bootcamped my mac with windows 10. (about a month or two ago). One day my son knocked my mac off of my counter and it fell. When I turned on the comp. it looked like the screen was cracked. I was able to still see (kinda) and I was able to reset the display driver (at least I...
  16. K

    MacBook Pro boot problems

    Hi, my MacBook Pro late 2012, 13" bought sep. 2014 has some strange problems. It all startet when i was trying to wake it up after sleep mode. The screen stayed black and i had to reboot holding the on/off button. These problems occurred more often and one day it didn't even start anymore. So...
  17. M

    Mac mini 2012 wont boot from new SSD

    I have late 2012 mac mini with an i5, 4 GB of ram and the standard 500GB HDD. The system had really slowed down do I decided to upgrade to and SSD drive. I cloned the current drive using CarbonCloner. I bought a crucial 275GB SSD and cloned the HDD using CarbonCloner. I think I did everything...
  18. A

    Boot failure

    So after I updated to 10.12.2, I only turned off my mid-2012 13 inch MacBook Pro twice (I rarely turn my MacBook Pro off). I turned it off because I had to make a bus trip. But after the trip I'm always stuck in boot loading screen after I entered my password. It usually stops at around 75%. I...
  19. R

    Mac Pro 5,1 won't boot - stuck on spinner - need help

    Hello folks, A bit of a long-winded explanation here as background to my troubles of today. Old 2007 Mac Pro (8 core) running OS X 10.7.5 (Lion, I believe) died. Thought it was a hard drive issue at first so I replaced that Seagate drive with new 3TB HGST model and Carbon Copy Cloned the...
  20. Micho_33

    Resolved Is my MBP logic board fried? [video]

    Hi, I'm having serious troubles to figure out what's wrong with a mid-2012 13" MBP. Already ran the onboard diagnostics utility (boot with command D) and came up with no hardware errors. Basically upon booting the laptop, it shuts down a bit short after the progress bar with the apple logo...