Spinning beachball of death

[Torontosoconfus]

I was watching Netflix (of course) and the screen froze. Then the sound froze. I couldn't force quit to i powered off. When I restarted, everything opened fine, then after a few seconds the beachball came up. It won't let me click on anything, I can't do any keyboard commands. I tried closing lid and opening, didn't help. Since I can't restart due to not being able to click anything, I have powered off then on many times. Always it loads perfectly normal to the desktop home page, but then the beachball comes back. I can move the mouse around not can't click anything. Help?!

 

[NT1440]

Try a PRAM reset

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18761?locale=en_US

Then try repairing your disk in Disk Utility.

 

[Torontosoconfus]

The PRAM reset didn't work (I thought it had, but it only took a few seconds longer for the beachball to come back).

I tried the hard drive utility check from a previous forum and it came back with no errors.

Thanks so much for your suggestions so far! Any other suggestions?!

 

[Weaselboy]

What OS version are you on? If Lion or newer, try holding command+r at boot to get to recovery and from there use Disk Utility to verify the disk. Does that show any errors?

 

[Taz Mangus]

The PRAM reset didn't work (I thought it had, but it only took a few seconds longer for the beachball to come back).

I tried the hard drive utility check from a previous forum and it came back with no errors.

Thanks so much for your suggestions so far! Any other suggestions?!

Try:

• Repair Permissions from Disk Utility and reboot.
• Create a new user, reboot, login into the new user. Does the issue still happen in the new user account?