Howdy,
I bought a 64gb ram upgrade kit from OWC for my brand new 2020 5k iMac, 27 incher. However, strange boot issues abound when I try to install all 4 sticks at once.
2 OEM sticks and 2 empty slots = boot normally
1 OEM stick + 3 OWC sticks = boot normally
4 OWC sticks = failed boot
When...
Hi folks, my 2019 5K iMac (which came with Mojave from factory) doesn't recognize when booting (with alt key pressed to access the boot options) a USB installer of Mojave and backwards (El Capitan etc), they literally don't show up when boot options appear. Funny thing is, it ONLY recognizes a...
Hey everyone,
This morning I woke up to my iPhone X stuck in reboot mode (Black Screen & Apple Logo). I was just on a long trip and accumulated tons of media which is why my storage is completely full. I am desperately trying to figure out how I can fix this WITHOUT performing a factory reset...
On my 27" corei7 mid2010 iMac, i get every now and then a white screen, that seems to cover up the users login page. This occurs just before the Apple logo and the Chime sound. Normally when this occurs, thinking that its a freeze, i do a restart by using the power button. But today i acted as...
The T2 chip and Apple SSD is more interweaved than I or the Apple Tech Support thought.
I installed a Samsung Nvme 970 Evo Plus via Pcie slot in my 2019 Mac Pro to serve as the OS drive.
This would leave the original 4TB Apple SSD that the Mac came with as my Media drive for video editing...
Bootcamp will not let me install anything besides window 10 and I cannot find the instructions to create a bootable windows 7 usb using catalina anywhere online.
Please help!
I purchased this 12-Core Mac Pro 5,1 (see my sig) as-is a few weeks ago from a local reseller for a very low price. They had almost two dozen they were looking to move and in hindsight. I probably should have bought two for parts redundancy alone.
My plan was to spec it out (mostly for photo...
Recently I have to inserted functional Windows 10 HD from another Mac Pro 5,1 into one of empty HD bays inside Mac Pro 2,1 2007. I didn't touched Mac OS Drive. Selected Windows volume as startup disk, restarted and Windows successfully worked. But now i want to start Mac OS on another drive and...
So my mac froze and after rebooting there where some issues with a program so I did another reboot and this time it will stop and shutdown if it is in the logo boot screen(it runs for 75% and stops). Even when I try to to cmd+r it wont go into recovery mode.
Is there another fix as I need the...
Hello,
I've trawled the Internet and performed so many steps I can't recall now!
I have a 2008 Mac Pro 3.1 which I want to sell on and have taken the hard drive out.
I simply want to install MacOS (any version) onto it to resell and have a fresh working OS to sell/demonstrate that it works to...
Hi folks,
I have a fairly old Macbook Pro (I think it's 2011/12). I was using it last night then the battery cut out. When I went to charge it up and power up, it gave me this screen (pic attached).
Do you know why this has happened, and do you have any advice as to steps I should take? I...
I have a mac pro 2008 3,1 system
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB
I recently installed the Catalina patch, but now my system is running more slowly and I'm having issues with apps. So, I just want to wipe my system and install whatever...
So I recently got an iMac G5 from a goodwill with nothing but the iMac itself and the power cable. Whenever I try to boot it up, it powers on and displays the Apple Logo, but doesn't progress any further. The fans also spin up quite a bit.
I'm able to get into the drive selector (option key at...
Hi everyone!
This is the thing...
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
Multiple Partitions (macOS Mavericks, macOS Catalina, Windows 10, Linux)
My SSD disk has a pure GUID partition map, al operative systems are installed in pure EFI mode. No MBR.
Everything worked fine until I updated...
I am using a Mac Pro 2013 6-Core 3.5GHz 64GB RAM Dual D500 machine with a fresh install of macOS Catalina 10.5.3 which was working like a charm (flawlessly) until I tried to install Windows 10 Pro (64 bits) using BootCamp, everything went fine until macOS asked to reboot the machine to continue...
Hi everyone
I have a 27'' iMac - late 2013 currently running:
- Intel Core i5 4570 3.2 GHz
- 16 GB DDR3
- 1 TB HDD (I can't remember if it's 5400 or 7200 rpm)
Due to slowness I've recently attempted to boot from an external SSD (Samsung T5) using USB 3.0 rather than running off the slow hard...
Hey folks, I'm wondering if someone can help me. I've been struggling for a few days with a grey boot screen when booting my 5.1 (4.1) Mac Pro. I installed Windows in what I thought was legacy mode using VMWare Fusion on macOS using the .vmdk method. Afterwards I could boot into Windows 10...
Hello, I have an Air early 2015 and for some reason when I try to do any sort of key stroke on startup, such as holding option to select boot drive it just doesnt work. However when I plug in an external keyboard it works just fine. Does anyone know whats going on here? What can I do to fix this?
Hi there,
I have a flashed Macvidcards Titan X in my 2010 Mac Pro 5.1.
Since installing the Titan about 4 years ago I've only ever been able to get my machine to boot while using the DVI cable connected to an old monitor the grey apple logo appears after some Commandline text- once it reaches...
Hey Guys,
First time poster here :) Hoping someone can help.
I have an old iMac - A1312 (2009/10ish) that I'm trying to get working.
If I try to boot from internal HDD, I get the question mark folder so am trying to reinstall OSX (High Sierra). Internet recovery prompts me for WiFi and then...