startup problem

Hi all, I've cracked the screen on my MacBook Pro i7 with touchbar. I was using it with USB-C to HDMI adapter to external monitor no problem. I left it for an hour and I couldn't get back into it. The only thing that seems to work is to press the power (fingerprint) button until I see the...

I cannot get past the internet recovery. I turned off my computer then turned it back on because it froze. This always worked before. This time I got a flashing folder with a question mark. I followed the instruction on the apple support website. I use ethernet and do not have a wifi username or...

I originally posted this in tha Apple forum but noone had a successful suggestion. The computer used to work fine. Now the bootup process shows the apple and the status bar about half full. This takes minutes. The computer stalls there. Eventually it gives me a full white screen for a while then...

Every few times i start up my macbook the isight green light comes on immediately and my isight programs such as photobooth and quicktime movie recorder fail to work. Restarting the macbook does not fix the problem, i have to shut it down and then restart. This gets frustrating and seem there...

I have a Macbook 1.8Mhz, inter core duo 2, 13", 80Gb HD and the problem that i have is that at startup there is a question mark folder (i know it means that the system folder of my HD could not be found), i alredy tried everythng from resteting the RAM parameters passing by the secure mode, user...

I have an old LCII that has not been used for several years. It was OK before it was stored away. Now I want to use it again I get no chime but a tone sequence and a blank display at switch on. I've replaced (substituted) the PRAM back-up battery but it makes no difference. Where can I get...

Hi all I picked up a used G4 Sawtooth. Everything checks out OK except it won't boot, even from a CD. I have a tested, known good hard drive with Tiger, one with OS-9.2 and the Tiger DVD - I still get the question mark folder icon, alternating with a good folder icon. When I start holding the...

I have a Imac G3 400mHz slot loading tray running OS X Tiger, is slow but running great, today I turn on my Imac, the screen becan grey and black with white letters all over the screen and after that the computer freez, the first line said: panic (cpu 0 caller 0x002DE020): Unable to find...

On a multi-os bootable G4 silver, after selecting the OS X volume boot at startup, Mac icon briefly appears, then another icon appears and the mac goes not farther. The icon is a circle with a slash across it, similar to a typical european or even american symbol indicating "do not enter" or...

My iBook kept freezing on startup (grey screen but no icon), so I started up with the System 9 CD I went to Mac Help and followed the instructions. (Basically to run Disk First Aid and do something with the driver -- I followed all instructions.) When I ran Disk First Aid, after about a...

Greetings. I'm running a G4 Tower 400 Mhz. When I start up I sometimes get the Darwin login screen. Sometimes it starts up normally and I get to me desktop. However, when I do successfully boot up, I find that files are missing from my Users folder. All my iTunes disappeared, for example, also...

Can you please help me with a start-up problem? When I try to switch on my G4 by pressing either the button on the screen or the computer the one can hear one of the hard drives start to spin up, both the button lights come on then a few seconds later the whole process stops, the drive spins...

A friend of mine moved out of state, and he's had trouble getting his computer started up. He created a user profile for his girlfriend, and since then he can't get his computer to start up. He says it makes it to the grey and white apple logo, but it goes no further. He says he can't startup...

This article : http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107474 Describes how to set up the MTU of a system, I have performed this many times in the past successfully when I have had to use my software restore cd. Yesterday I installed OS 9 and OS X seperatley from their installer...

I have a 8600/200 with a external and internal HD. When I try to start it up the first time it does not start up, then I reboot by pressing the green button it starts up on one hard drive then when i am in the OS i restart and only then it shows both HD's?

just setup a network with an dlink DI-604 router. all other macs work great but my titanium powerbook running OS 10.2.5 can't seem to get it up. appletalk that is. it works every now and then but keeps loosing it aafter sleeping etc. anybody got a clue?

I built a 10.1.4 box and installed the Apple Remote Desktop client. Then I rebooted and ran Software Update to upgrade ARD to 1.1. I turned on all the options I wanted and set the client to start at boot time. However, the daemon does not actually come up at boot. The startup folder, with a...

Yes, i rebooted OS X. that had to happen. and the system refused to start, locked out with the rainbow cursor stuck in the left corner. So i restarted again, same thing... So I restarted again, with the 'option' key pressed, rebooted in Mac OS 9... all went fine. I rebooted almost immediately...

A few people have reported getting at message when trying to launch Classic mode. The error says: "This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. Please use the Installer to update this disk for this model.". This happened to me and after several installs, I figured it out. If you...