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  1. T

    iMac 20'' (Early 2009) Stuck on White Screen – Boot Selector Not Working

    Hello everyone, I have a problem with my 20" iMac from early 2009. A few months ago, my father gave me the iMac to reinstall it and install a fresh operating system. At that time, the Mac had a 320GB Apple HDD and 8GB of RAM installed. Reinstalling proved difficult because the Mac does not show...
  2. X

    MB 1,1-7,1 !HELP NEEDED! Late 2006 MacBook white screen

    I really need your help. My MacBook 2,1 (Core 2 Duo, GMA950, 2GB DDR2, OS X Lion 10.7.5) was working just fine a few days ago, now when I plugged it in it gave me a white screen. Here are the specific symptoms - Gives chime - Cannot boot from recovery (holding alt just gives me a cursor which...
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    Help Needed: 2011 27" iMac with No Display - GPU Upgrade Dilemma

    Hello everyone, I recently inherited a 2011 27-inch iMac that’s giving me some trouble. The screen is completely blank, and I’m only seeing a white screen when I power it on. After doing some research, I found that the AMD Radeon HD 6970M (2GB) GPU is notorious for failing, which I suspect...
  4. R

    Macbook Gray Screen Before Login Issue

    Hi guys, I am facing an issue lately that I have tried to fix but unfortunately without success. After I updated the macOS version of my Macbook Pro 2019 15" Touchbar the laptop has a weird issue on start-up. The screen where the Apple logo appears is now gray instead of black. The laptop...
  5. flatjuba

    White Screen after booting with iMac G5

    Anyone know why this is happening? It boots but it goes directly to whitescreen....There is a ding sound when push the power button. Thanks
  6. Metallsau

    2009 iMac i7 27" clean install from USB won´t boot White screen

    hi, -my 2009 iMac stopped working. Beachballl Only. - i could secure my data through Windows Safe Mode (only thing that worked) - Put in a new 1tb SSD, as i thought maybe the HDD is broken. (HFS journaled GUID) - bootable Yosemite and El Capitan USB Stick clean install (erased and Formated...
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    White screen at boot

    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...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Cannot boot into Windows 10 with RTX2060

    Hi guys, I'm using my old Mac Pro 5.1 2020 with an RX580 as a gaming desktop and using Windows 10 only - MacOS isn't even installed any longer, apart from the recovery stuff. Today I received an RTX2060 and popped that in but now Windows doesn't boot at all. All I see is a white screen...
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    Macbook Pro 2011 only launching in safe boot and install "a required download is missing"

    Hello all, I recently found this macbook piled up in my Dads garage and thought id take a look at it, there was no HDD, RAM or power supply. I have installed them my self, with a new SSD and 8GB of ram, upon booting it i noticed there was a graphical issue, so I've disabled the external GPU in...
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    MacBook Pro 16 inch white screen during update

    Hi everyone! I bought a MacBook Pro 16 inch and after restarting in order to install latest update the screen became white for some seconds and then continue normally. Later I decide to reinstall os Catalina and when restarting the same thing was happened. White screen for some seconds and...
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    Help with no boot - white screen

    Hi all, I need some assistance for a reoccurring problem with a iMac 2010. The problem has run through many phases over weeks (beginning with black screen with thin vertical white bars) on start-up, but through finally getting it to boot with a CD and reinstalling the existing OS it appeared...
  12. rcfernandez79

    Rx 580 running in Mac Pro 3.1 only in safe mode

    I ve installed a Rx 580 gpu in my Mac Pro 3.1 early 2008. It works only in safe mode. In normal mode, only white screen. Any help??
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    Single White Screen Flash At Startup

    Hello, I’m looking for some help and or suggestions to an issue that has been happening with my MacBook Pro 13” running OSX Sierra. The problem started a while back but had stopped for a while, but the issue has started again. What happens is, the computers screen seems not to wake from...
  14. joaofrn

    macbook pro 2011 white screen even trying boot clean install

    just wanna fix my macbook 2011. not even a new clean instal from pen drive works. still give me an white screen. an ssd with windows installed works on this mac, thas just increadable. i thought at first it was the video card problem and i would have to throw away the macbook but since hes...
  15. 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...
  16. benydc

    White Screen Boot Loop - IPod Touch 4G

    Hi, I have this iPod which goes into bootloop, I tried restorting from iTunes and get Error 9 code. I tried to get the SHSH bloobs but never had the success. Has anyone seen this problem before or anything I can try to fix it? The white screen has apple logo and some colored lines. Check pic...
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    Help! White screen on MacBook Pro

    Help Please ☹️. My MacBook Pro won’t turn on- showing a white screen with a no entry sign. Any ideas?
  18. AppleMacFinder

    MBP 1,1-10,2 Force 2011 MacBook Pro 8,2 with failed AMD GPU to ALWAYS use Intel integrated GPU (EFI variable fix)

    If you don't have time to read my story (which also describes some interesting technical approaches) just scroll down this thread until a "100% WORKING SOLUTION" text Discrete AMD GPU of my 2011 MacBook Pro 8,2 has finally failed because of the reasons mentioned here (...
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    Sceen white and not booting

    My 27" iMac 2.8 gig core duo just now shut down and when restarted only had a white screen. I was opening iTunes when my mac al of a sudden shut down. It tried to restart on its own but indicator bar only went about 70% and a white screen came up. It shut down again and tried to restart again...
  20. danilko1

    Theory on iPhone X color choices and Nov 3rd Launch

    I am reviewing some of the leak videos. I notice that some of the iPhone X sample parts are white faced screens and also shown was blush gold, like the iPhone 8... I am now thinking, Apple canceled blush gold and the white face... This either increased production of the screen for one color...