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    Mac Book Pro, screen freezes then struggles to turn on

    Hello Forum, Its been a while, but basically my mac book pro randomly freezes whilst I am on my computer (Mostly online). After it freezes, I have to force shut it down, and turn it back on again. However whenever I do that, turning it back on adds plenty of small horizontal lines through the...
  2. CupertinoSlave

    Safari freezing with some Youtube videos

    Try playing this video and going into fullscreen more than once. Your mac will freeze up. youtube.com/watch?v=jwhFr5Ax3Fk Tried this with 2 macbooks in the Apple store, looks like a bug with Safari itself. The issue is fixed in MacOS Sierra, any chance Apple will fix this before that?
  3. jusacruiser

    My MBP Keeps giving me the Beachball!!

    I am constantly getting the dreaded beachball. :mad: I have done all the usual things to try and speed up my computer. I have deleted my cashe, cookies, shut down all things "running in the background", I have even resorted to PC strategies such as restarting my computer or some form of...
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    USB mouse cursor keeps freezing

    I am running 10.11.5 on a CMP 5,1 and my usb mouse cursor keeps freezing. If I disconnect the mouse from USB port and reconnect, the cursor is unfrozen. Everything else works normally, including Apple trackpad. What appears to be happening is that the Mac somehow loses track of the USB mouse...
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    Has 10.11.5 solved the 10.11.4 freeze?

    In this thread, we discussed how 10.11.4 brought a bug that made our Macs freeze. For some people, 10.11.5 has solved this issue; for some, it has not. If you had this problem, please vote to see what the general consensus is.
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    One of my various shared albums suddenly stopped syncing

    I have numerous shared photo albums and have not had any trouble until recently when the album I share with my girlfriend stopped updating. I pretty much always add my photos from my iPhone, but on the 17th of May I had some photos on my iPad that I wanted to add. I added 14 pics and never...
  7. Jamesrodd9

    6 month old Macbook Pro is freezing to the point where I have to power off with off buttom

    First time Mac user, having issues!!! 6 month old Macbook Pro is freezing to the point where I have to power off with off button This started happening yesterday after some raw camera files would not download to my computer direct from camera. I was using image capture but then managed to...
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    MacBook Pro beach ball loading icon

    So my problem started two days ago, I had erased my HD and reinstalled the OS X as I was having previous issues with the computer. After doing this I started up, set it all up, and started using it. Was working perfectly fine until about 3 hours later. Everything on the computer then started to...
  9. Antonnn

    Resolved Macbook Pro 2015 with OSX El Capitan 10.11.4 system wide freeze (Read the details)

    Hello, for more than a month now, ever since I updated to the final 10.11.4 my macbook completely freezes in Safari and other apps at random times, about once a week. It usually happens when I click on a link, switch tabs, go back one page, etc. The cursor freezes, the screen freezes, the...
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    iMac freezes, then reboots using time machine

    Hi there, I've been struggling with quite a big problem lately. Every time I try to back up my iMac via Time Machine the iMac eventually freezes and then reboots. I started trying every 'fix' I could find on the internet. I tried turning off indexing, fixing disk permissions, disk utility...
  11. seanbperiod

    Dell Soundbar AC511 driver causing system freeze/slowdown.

    I purchased the Dell Soundbar AC511 to go under my monitor and it starts to work as expected. However, it occasionally causes CPU to run high and the system basically freezes until I unplug it. When this happens, no sound comes from the speaker and I'm unable to use the volume keys until I...
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    Macbook Pro 15 Ultimo 2013 Keeps Freezing

    Hi there I have had a big problem with my Macbook Pro Retina recently. It keeps freezing and shutting down for no reason what so ever. It appears to be a complete random. I now have to force shut it down at least 5 times a day. I've tried freshly reinstalling Mac OS X, Resetting the SMC and...
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    Macbook won't shut down El Capitain

    Hello, I have an annoying problem. Sometimes when I try to shut down mac it freezes with spinning wheel. I tried PRAM, SMC reset, but nothing helps. I noticed that It happens more often when it's been plugged to power than when it runs on battery. Any thoughts what I can do, or clean-installing...
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    Imac CPU drainage using Garageband.

    I have just bought a brand new iMac 27 inch retina 5k, 3.2 Ghz Intel core i5, 8gb memory and 250gb flash storage..lovely machine, however when I run garageband on it the CPU in the activity monitor goes well over 100% sometimes hitting 200 and causes the screen to freeze and I get the spinning...
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    El capitan with problems in FILE dialog (unsolved)

    Hey guys, I had an annoying problem with el capitan in my macbook pro 15" 2010, i5, ssd, fresh install; it has all the updates and a couple days ago I was having this problem: whatever the app you were using, you couldn`t open the FILE dialog that it become frozen... simple like that; even a...
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    HDD freezing after moving it

    Hi guys, I have a MBP 13" mid 2010 with a 720Gb HDD and with a 480Gb SSD installed instead of the DVD bay working perfectly. I have also a MBP 13" 2012 non-retina. I moved my HDD and SSD from the 2010 mbp to the 2012 one, and after doing the change, my HDD freezes every certain time for around...
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    5k iMac Freezing and Restarting

    Hi, I searched but the ones I saw, they would get a message saying "your computer has restarted because of a problem". However, I am not getting that message at all. It just freezes, then after a few seconds the screen turns off, then restarts up and when I sign in everything I was working on is...
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    iPhone 5S Rear Camera Disabled?!

    I have an iPhone 5s. When I open the camera app, the rear facing camera will not work. The image does not appear, just a blurry gray like screen. In the top left of the camera screen it shows a yellow triangle with a '!' It says that you can not use the camera until the phone cools down. It's...