hi all,
i am having some weird issues with my macbook pro (december 2010). until now, it's been lightning fast, and i don't really have much on it i mostly use it for surfing the web and some creative suite work.
yesterday morning i went to check my email when i woke up and the screen was weirdly frozen with spinning rainbows and everything, so i restarted. the computer was stuck starting up and showed the apple symbol with the spinning gear indefinitely. i rebooted again and again and still this happened. i took my computer to work and i restarted it in verbose mode, which then allowed the computer to start up fine, or so i thought.
throughout the day, the computer was working fine until the end of work, when it froze up in the same way it had that morning. i rebooted again. this time, i received the gray screen with the spinning gear, but the apple was replaced with the "prohibitory" icon (a circle with a slash through it). i restarted in verbose mode a couple of times, in one of which the computer seemed to be pretty stuck repeating one process over and over again and getting an error.
the next time i rebooted in verbose mode, it started up fine but every single thing i did sent the computer into serious spinny rainbow fits. it's like every process i started was SO HARD for it to do, even if it was just opening google chrome or trying to go to zappos.com.
i left it alone all night and then this morning i started it in safe mode. same thing with it getting stuck on really easy things like opening browser windows. i'm talking it would take 5-10 minutes just to select the "applications" folder.
this is pretty much what i'm left with. i have no idea what to do, but i need to get the problem solved asap!
thanks so much for reading and thanks in advance for your reply.
best regards,
terra
i am having some weird issues with my macbook pro (december 2010). until now, it's been lightning fast, and i don't really have much on it i mostly use it for surfing the web and some creative suite work.
yesterday morning i went to check my email when i woke up and the screen was weirdly frozen with spinning rainbows and everything, so i restarted. the computer was stuck starting up and showed the apple symbol with the spinning gear indefinitely. i rebooted again and again and still this happened. i took my computer to work and i restarted it in verbose mode, which then allowed the computer to start up fine, or so i thought.
throughout the day, the computer was working fine until the end of work, when it froze up in the same way it had that morning. i rebooted again. this time, i received the gray screen with the spinning gear, but the apple was replaced with the "prohibitory" icon (a circle with a slash through it). i restarted in verbose mode a couple of times, in one of which the computer seemed to be pretty stuck repeating one process over and over again and getting an error.
the next time i rebooted in verbose mode, it started up fine but every single thing i did sent the computer into serious spinny rainbow fits. it's like every process i started was SO HARD for it to do, even if it was just opening google chrome or trying to go to zappos.com.
i left it alone all night and then this morning i started it in safe mode. same thing with it getting stuck on really easy things like opening browser windows. i'm talking it would take 5-10 minutes just to select the "applications" folder.
this is pretty much what i'm left with. i have no idea what to do, but i need to get the problem solved asap!
thanks so much for reading and thanks in advance for your reply.
best regards,
terra
