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  1. volumegarage

    MAJOR MELTDOWN - Installed Catalina and can no longer reboot - memory issues

    I sure hope someone has experienced a problem like this and can assists. Earlier this week, I downloaded Catalina on to my new iMac. The os worked ok for a couple of days, but my hard drive was full. I think I downloaded the new XCode and haven't been able to boot the machine since. I've worked...
  2. Mvizcar

    Reinstall IOS issues after a spill

    I am trying to reinstall this IOS system on my Mac after a water spill and having issues after having to reboot in recovery mode. USB boot drive not working. I am receiving a message that “The disk does not use Guid partition scheme” Mac users help!!?! Any advice is much appreciated
  3. P

    2011 iMac Reboot Loop

    I'm hoping someone can offer me some advice on a problem I'm having with a 2011 27" iMac. I bought the machine with video not working. I replaced the video card, and installed an SSD, and the machine seemed to be working fine for a couple of days. I started to notice that the fan seemed to...
  4. W

    iMac 2007 Problems

    Hello, I had an old iMac 7.1 (2007) at my work and I wanted to reboot it after a couple of years and I want to give it to my sun, but there are some problems. At First: When I reboot it it gives me a screen with a folder and a question mark in it. But then I tried to enter recovery mode but this...
  5. creatrix

    password requested after battery drained??

    Has anyone else had this happen? I let my battery drain (unintentionally) and the enter password box came up on the screen (after waiting a minute before the dark screen settled) First, I had a few seconds of various shades of grey/black flickering on the screen. YIKES... just bought this new...
  6. nekaj

    Automatically connecting to Wifi before login

    Hi, I'm setting up my new Mac Mini (2018) as a home file/video/etc server. Old one (2011 server, running OS X 10.13.6) reconnected to Wifi after remote reboot without any problem. New mini unfortunately connects to WiFi only after login which makes it unusable for remote work (I need to reboot...
  7. A

    Macbook Pro restarts during wakeup

    My new 2018 Macbook Pro (MacBookPro15,1 & macOS 10.14.2 (18C54)), while waking up after a standby (or hibernate), automatically restarts (rather than resuming from sleep.) This happens intermittently. When this happens `log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"'...
  8. jj1984

    RESOLVED: Boot Camp Assistant cannot reboot into windows 8.1 partition during installation

    I'm using MBP retina early 2015 high sierra. I'm trying to install windows 8.1 through boot camp. After following all the instructions (i.e. specifying iso path, partition size, downloaded support files automatically etc) in boot camp assistant, when the machines restarts to install windows, the...
  9. airlied

    Can't reboot Mac with Blackmagic eGPU connected

    I just got my new 2018 model Macbook Pro (15' 2.2Ghz hex-core i7, Radeon pro 560X, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512 GB SSD). And a fancy Blackmagic eGPU. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FlU2CVpPVwVnEzgE5eZi6zclrUYtdvHp/view Everything was fine, until I rebooted my Mac. I found that the Mac won't reboot...
  10. M

    iPhone HELP! Boot loop on Apple Logo Screen in iPhone 7 Plus

    Hey everyone! I own a iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 11.2.3. Unfortunately, the person who gave me this iPhone, has forgotten iCloud password, so I am not able to restore the iPhone to solve my problem. Yesterday, I jailbroke my device with Electra by Coolstar (https://coolstar.org/electra/). After...
  11. Burr560

    Macbook keeps rebooting

    I kept getting a message that I had "harmful" files and it showed that they were adware in the /private folder. I deleted the whole /private folder and now my Mac reboots after s quick reveal of a bunch of files in black and white and a lot of words at the very top that disappears so quickly...
  12. R

    spontaneous reboot when turn on USB DAC

    I am using a mid-2010 Mac Mini running OSX 10.11.6 as a "headless" music server. It is connected to a DAC, via USB, and thence my stereo system. I use iTunes, playing mostly rips of CDs. If I power the DAC off and then back on, the Mini reboots. The DAC has multiple input channels (TOSlink...
  13. TRDmanAE86

    iPod touch Ipod Touch 4th gen random respring after powering off?

    With my 4th gen iPod Touch, I've ran into a interesting problem that's happened a few times upon powering down (it happens sporadically whenever I initiate the shutdown procedure). After I slide to unlock, as its shutting down, it keeps showing the spinning circle for around 2 minutes. Then the...
  14. sherifabdlnaby

    Random Reboots even when Idle & screen turned off, panic-full in logs.

    Hello, I have an iPhone 7 currently on 10.3.3. I have encountered 4 random reboots to date, the first happened about two months ago, the phone was laying on my desk when suddenly screen turned on and rebooted. Second time was two weeks ago when I woke up and found it requiring by passcode...
  15. T

    Apple Watch randomly reboots with watchOS 4.2

    I have a SS Apple Watch Series 2 and have been frustrated with the constant rebooting of my watch with the newest software. After a failed attempt with Apple Support and searching the internet, I see that other users are having the same issue with the Series 1, 2 and 3 watches. It seems as...
  16. P

    2015 MBP 15, High Sierra, Black screen after waking from sleep.

    Hey there, I noticed that the 2015 MBP 15 does not wake up like it used to from sleep. It goes straight to a black screen and will not come out of that state until it's hard reset with the power button. I have seen a few others mention this issue but only workarounds as solutions. Has anyone...
  17. S

    ios 11 has crippled my 5S

    So IOS 11 has completely crippled my iphone 5S. Everything has slowed to a crawl. The phone lags constantly. The screen freezes for long periods of time. The phone completely reboots often. Apps crash, the phone crashes, everything is now completely miserable. Not to mention that less than...
  18. GuillaumeB

    Is remote desktop working just after reboot ?

    Hello, I recently set up my former MacBook Pro as a server. I can access it via VNC and therefore remote log into it from another Mac An update has downloaded and the server machine is asking for a reboot. I was wondering : If I restart the MacBook server, will I be able to log in after the...
  19. E

    MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2012 CRASH intermittently

    Hello Apple community, my MacBook pro Retina mid 2012 has been crashing very often recently, without any notice, the screen just becomes black, and I have to hard reboot it. Could any help to diagnose the issue? Below is the Report I got today: Thu Jul 27 10:48:13 2017 *** Panic Report...
  20. rmarsh000

    iPad mini Constant reboot with static

    I got this ipad for free and it's been doing the same thing since i got it. I have no idea what's going on or what i need to do to reset or fix this. Here is a video of what's going on