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Good day, all. I have a weird one for you, and I have tried to troubleshoot the best I can...but I am at a dead end. I inherited a (free!) 2015 iMac 21.5 (non-4K) with a dying/dead HDD. I ran First Aid on the disk, and it failed. No problem...obviously knew about the dead HDD, so I rebooted...

I just made a post about my MacBook Pro Retina's from 2012 being bullet proof, And moments later my system died, apparently with unfixable Disk Utility / first aid reports, Many errors, in fact it reached the max amount of reporting and ended subsequent reports. This was easy to replicate, By...

I have an older Macbook Pro, A1398 EMC2673 (2013) Core i7 which seemed to be working fine. Because I'm an idiot, I downloaded an update to the OS and installed it before I did a backup. Now it won't boot. I can turn it on and get to the login screen. I put in my password and the status bar only...

Hi, Today I did a fresh install of macOS 12 on my 2017 iMac 27" 5k i5 3.5Ghz Intel Before I installed from Recovery I erase the disk and renamed it, disk utility successfully erased it. After completing, the mac booted into macOS briefly and was terribly slow, so I decided to reboot the mac...

I filmed a short tutorial on using TG Pro for new Mac users. This app helps keep temperatures low by increasing Macs' fan rates. I've found that setting the fans a bit faster by default remains inaudible yet boosts performance and more importantly, comfort if using the Macbook on your lap...

Hi guys, I am having problems with a 2007 Mac Pro 2,1. The symptoms are the following: Random restart. Cannot actually boot again (restarts before mac os finishes loading) unless you let it sit for 20-30 minutes. Sometimes the CPU OVERTEMP leds illuminate after. Sometimes they don’t. Either...

Fairly often when my mac is closed in sleep mode, the system will restart itself rather than go straight to the login screen. This seems to be the issue from my log: 10:53:43.713836+0000 powerd SMC shutdown cause: 5: Software initiated shutdown 10:53:44.353228+0000 powerd hibmode=0...

I have a mid 2012 Macbook pro, a few years ago I replaced the hard drive with an SSD and replaced the optical drive with the original hard drive that was in the computer using the OWC data doubler. It all worked well but then last week I started having problems with the secondary drive, whenever...

Hey everyone, I recently started refurbing on my old 2010 MBP and have run in to some problems. First problem that I am having is the battery was bulging and pressing the trackpad up so that it would no longer click, but I have resolved that by simply removing the battery for now, and I intend...

Update seems to have been downloaded, but after clicking "Update Now" in Software update, MBP reboots fully, but the update isn't installed. Navigating back to Software update shows that 10.14.4 is still availble, and the cycle continues. Is there something I'm missing?

MacBook Pro 2011 - 2013 (GPU failure, Apple replaced with next gen MacBook Pro) MacBook Pro 2013 - 2017 (Staingate, still using it) MacBook Pro 2017 - 2018 Touch Bar (Speaker failure/muffled, sent in for warranty) In my opinion, any recall by Apple or any replacement is not a cure or solution...

Haven't used this thing in 4 years. Back then I started noticing some HDD related issues & now it seems way more severe. It barely recognises in computer and boots 5 times before gettingg to home screen. It's very bad. It's a 160G last Gen iPod Classic. I have been using iPhone 7, Airpods &...

Anybody seen this? I have a late 2017 iMac 18,2 with 16gb memory and 1tb fusion drive. I have three outboard drives, an outboard USB hub, and two displays. Installed Mojave by downloading from app store. After logging in got "No Wifi Hardware Installed." Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard would...

I have a late '16 MBP running High Sierra and keep OS updated. For a while, I have found it necessary to clear Touch ID and reenter my finger scan because it periodically, and for no apparent reason, ceases to recognize the scan. The Touch ID scan input pad is not dirty, nor is my finger, yet it...

I've heard that the accepted wisdom is that you should replace hard drives every three years because the older they get the more likely they are to fail. I've never actually followed that advice because I keep daily backups so I figure they should run until they die. What's the longest you've...

My mid-2009 mbp started to crash/freeze randomly a few times the last week. I ran a disk utility check when I still was able to boot and it said everything was fine. The next day it crashed again, and I haven't been able to boot it ever since – now two days ago. It boots and gives me the...

My MacBook Air SSD died, or at least I believe it did. I was using my MacBook air (mid 2013) and all of a sudden my Mac freezes, I didn’t know what to do so I just pressed the power button and my Mac restarted with a folder with a question mark. After googling the issue, I tried resetting...

I have bought my mac from a seller, which was used for demostration on sell point.It has full 2 year apple service covarage.It was only 61 battery cycle when i bought. I owned and used this machine 1 month.One week or so I havent used my mac, kept it sleeping, and last week I have opened the...

Recently my MacBook Pro from 2011 refuses to go to sleep. Regardless if I have my Cinema display attached or not. Regardless if I close the lid or chose the sleep command in the menu bar. The Mac always restarts after some time it was trying to go to Sleep Mode. Then the system shows me the...

I have iMac mid-2011 and today I tried to install more ram to it (3x4GB modules) and I tried to install fresh OSX - Sierra As you can see (this is my second try) I have the same result - it say imac osinstallersetupd[536]: retrying...