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  1. orph

    macpro 3.1 ram problem?

    hay left my 3.1 over night sleeping and woke up to find the front power light blinking, pulled drives and swapped gpu with no luck till i started pulling ram and with two sticks installed only one showed up (but i booted) now looks like the top ram bored is not happy what steps can i take to...
  2. Y

    iMac Pro 2017 iMac Pro FaceTime major issue

    So I thought I'd share with the group. FaceTime is broken on my iMac Pro (and a few others I've tested on). :( I've been on a roller coaster the last month with Apple Support and the Apple Store. I purchased an iMac Pro 27" (8 core) from my local Microcenter in late January. (see this last...
  3. Princess Cake

    .icns files not working right...

    It seems like my system can no longer work with .icns icon files >.> I've been trying to assign custom icons to various folders/files and each one results in a generic ".icns type" icon appearing instead. I know the files I'm using ARE .icns and preview even sees the sub-images for the smaller...
  4. sibby

    Powerbook G4 PowerPC won't boot up - diagnostics/advice please?

    Hi guys, I have a friend with a PowerBook G4 15" / PowerBook5,8, PowerPC G4 (1.5), 1.67Ghz. It's obviously old, but was refurbed 3 years ago and has functioned well for their needs, but I understand the battery has been terrible for a year - holding only seconds of charge and requiring the AC...
  5. acechapo25

    iPhone iPhone not turning on after installing Lydia tweak

    So I have an iPhone 6 with iOS 10.3.2 and I just jailbroke it using cydia impactor and g0blin ipa. Everything was going well, I jailbroke it, phone restarted no problem. I then installed a file through Cydia, and had to reset the springboard. Again no problem. A few minutes later, my phone...
  6. FabTBC

    iPhone X iPhone X Weird Scratch

    I've had my iPhone X space grey since early December and from the moment I got it put a screen protector and an apple silicone case on it, in order to protect it. After about two weeks I wanted to clean my iPhone and therefore took it out of its case. That is when I noticed the weird scratch on...
  7. drfunk1986

    Apple TV 4th Generation NEED HELP

    Okay so it's been a week, did the most current update from Apple only to have it wipe my system. Tried doin recovery via the troubleshoot method of plugging it into my laptop via usb-c and iTunes but iTunes does not recognize the device. Doesn't even display anything. Does anyone know how I can...
  8. www.shotex.me

    crack on the bottom part of the screen

    Hello, i've cracked the bottom part of the screen, not display itself tho, this part seems to be separate but i could not find it anywhere, can i buy it somewhere? here is the image : https://imgur.com/c0ymY9f
  9. donotfold

    Broken speaker MacBook Pro

    Last night I opened my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) and suddenly my right speaker made a loud crisping, cracking and annoying sound. After a few seconds it ended up in silence. I did a reboot but the right speaker of the computer doesn't work anymore. Some very low tunes are working, but that's...
  10. D

    Forgot password no assistive touch home button broken

    Okay, on my old iPhone 4s, I've got quite the issue. I forgot my password, my home button is broken, and I don't have assistive touch to be able to turn it off, but can't enable it because I can't get into my phone! How do I do factory reset via iTunes when it tells me something about allowing...
  11. N

    Touchscreen not working

    Any idea why this might be? I took my iPhone 6s running with me yesterday, so thought it might have gotten a bit wet, but very very very minimally wet. Like hardly at all. Nevertheless it has been in rice all night... It was working fine all afternoon after my run, until about 6pm at night...
  12. F

    Did they break the 3-finger-tap dictionary shortcut?

    For years one of my absolute favorite things about the Mac trackpad was being able to 3-finger-tap while hovering the mouse over a particular word, and then the Mac would define that word for me in a small pop-up dictionary window. It seems that after Sierra, this feature broke for me. Now it's...
  13. Avenged110

    Map tiles no longer loading

    Just wondering if anyone else's iOS 6.x installs are no longer loading map tiles/vector data for Maps.app. This has only been within the last month or so that I've noticed. Using the "standard" view results in an empty grid and using "hybrid" only displays satellite data with no overlays...
  14. moxietown

    Buy More Storage Not Working

    Good day Wondering if anyone else has run into this issue... I go into System preferences, manage iCloud, and then click "Buy More Storage..." button on top... It loads a small window, but it remains blank. I have to force quite system preferences to close it. I have logged in and out of icloud...
  15. F

    Cinema display shuts off and makes 'clicking' noise

    Hi For the last year or so, I have had a truly weird issue with my 27" Apple Cinema Display (non-thunderbolt, about 5-6 years old). When the display has been connected to power and my Macbook pro for an hour or so, it shuts off, and starts making a 'clicking' noise every 5 seconds. Power from...
  16. robbieleffel

    iPad 4 screen issue

    Can someone tell me what part I need to repair this?
  17. big-twinkiesgto

    NEED HELP - iPhone is completely dead; tried fixing it on my own

    I did the dumb idea of trying to fix my own iPhone 6 Plus. I believe I messed up the little connections where the screen plug into the phone. I don't know if that's the main problem but my iPhone is now completely dead and won't turn on. I really want to get my pics and data off of it. Are there...
  18. Fordornothing

    Please help! Locked HD after erasing

    Hi, I'm lost, I wanted to reset my MacBook Pro retina back to factory reset. However, when I erased the startup disk I did not back up anything because I did not have anything valuble to save. Now, when I try to reinstall macOS Sierra I am unable to select the "OS X Base System" HD. It's says...
  19. zocarius

    MacBookPro (Sierra) brings down WiFi network

    Our devices We have a household with two MacBook Pro's (one Sierra, one El Capitan), and iPhone 7 and an Android Nexus 6. The problem Yesterday, seemingly out of the blue, the WiFi stopped working for my wife. When we investigated, it turned out that every time she connects her MacBook Pro to...
  20. S

    Black screen no matter what I do.

    Hey folks I own a MacBook Pro Retina 15" from late 2013, it worked just fine untill now. What happened: I tried to Install Windows 10 with bootcamp. The first try didn't work, so I did some research and in a German forum a guy said that when you make an ExFat partition yourself, that error...