Tried rebooting pram but no luck still get the folder question mark. When I reset it booted to desktop but then I went into system preferences and chose crucial ssd as my boot drive and clicked restart. It then went to grey screen again with folder. I turned it off.
Started back up, pressed options, apple key, p and r down together again. It booted to desktop but theres nothing on desktop and the top finder bar with apple logo and file edit etc are all grey and mouse & keyboard will not work like it's frozen.
Seriously, i don't do anything different than anyone else with computers but for some strange reason they hate me. It's an abusive relationship I think...
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UPDATE:
I switched to analogue (vga) which is plugged into the radeon and desktop os working fine. But the DVI lead which is plugged into the Nvidia GTX 680 is frozen.
Sigh... Can't set up boot camp until this problem is fixed first...
I went into nvidia driver manager and under "graphics drivers" the setting is OSX DEFAULT GRAPHICS DRIVER.
That seem correct?
UPDATE 2: you are looking at something very spectacular here people. My stupidity knows no bounds. I went into display settings and chose mirrored as it was set to monitors being "side by side" hence why the DVI monitor had nothing but the background wallpaper on it. Changed so they are the same now. What a pillock!
Now back to my regular problem. How do I get it to boot up into my SSD without issue of the grey folder of death showing up. Should there be some settings I arrange on my computer to ensure it boots from radeon and SSD rogether and not just sit idle looking for a folder to boot from?
UPDATE 3: tried restarting the computer but got grey folder of death again.
I then went into disk utility and chose "repair disc" on the SSD and once it finished I restarted it. It booted fine!
I then shut it down completely to see if it could boot after a full shut down and again it booted fine. Looks like a quick repair of the disk in disk utility was all that was needed. Boots very fast too from the radeon and ssd in the pcie slot.
Right. Onto rhe next dilemma.
Earlier I tried to install win 7 from USB so started bootcamp assistant and went through process of installing a BOOTCAMP partition.
It then failed to recognise the bootable USB drive so had to shut down the computer (as nothing else worked).
Now I have have a 60 gb partition on the SSD ready for win 7 installation but when I go back into bootcamp assistant it has no option to install. I can worher download and install latest windows aupport software
Or
Remove windows 7 or later version.
Can I boot from the dvd disc and carry on from there or do I have to delete the bootcamp partition (unsure how to do this) and start all over again?
OK tried to set it up as I believed it would show partition when I go to install win7.
It did but could not install as the bootcamp partition is not NTFS and as mac cannot create an NTFS partition I think I'm screwed. What a crock.
Ok got it working finally.
Started back up, pressed options, apple key, p and r down together again. It booted to desktop but theres nothing on desktop and the top finder bar with apple logo and file edit etc are all grey and mouse & keyboard will not work like it's frozen.
Seriously, i don't do anything different than anyone else with computers but for some strange reason they hate me. It's an abusive relationship I think...
----------
UPDATE:
I switched to analogue (vga) which is plugged into the radeon and desktop os working fine. But the DVI lead which is plugged into the Nvidia GTX 680 is frozen.
Sigh... Can't set up boot camp until this problem is fixed first...
I went into nvidia driver manager and under "graphics drivers" the setting is OSX DEFAULT GRAPHICS DRIVER.
That seem correct?
UPDATE 2: you are looking at something very spectacular here people. My stupidity knows no bounds. I went into display settings and chose mirrored as it was set to monitors being "side by side" hence why the DVI monitor had nothing but the background wallpaper on it. Changed so they are the same now. What a pillock!
Now back to my regular problem. How do I get it to boot up into my SSD without issue of the grey folder of death showing up. Should there be some settings I arrange on my computer to ensure it boots from radeon and SSD rogether and not just sit idle looking for a folder to boot from?
UPDATE 3: tried restarting the computer but got grey folder of death again.
I then went into disk utility and chose "repair disc" on the SSD and once it finished I restarted it. It booted fine!
I then shut it down completely to see if it could boot after a full shut down and again it booted fine. Looks like a quick repair of the disk in disk utility was all that was needed. Boots very fast too from the radeon and ssd in the pcie slot.
Right. Onto rhe next dilemma.
Earlier I tried to install win 7 from USB so started bootcamp assistant and went through process of installing a BOOTCAMP partition.
It then failed to recognise the bootable USB drive so had to shut down the computer (as nothing else worked).
Now I have have a 60 gb partition on the SSD ready for win 7 installation but when I go back into bootcamp assistant it has no option to install. I can worher download and install latest windows aupport software
Or
Remove windows 7 or later version.
Can I boot from the dvd disc and carry on from there or do I have to delete the bootcamp partition (unsure how to do this) and start all over again?
OK tried to set it up as I believed it would show partition when I go to install win7.
It did but could not install as the bootcamp partition is not NTFS and as mac cannot create an NTFS partition I think I'm screwed. What a crock.
Ok got it working finally.
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