A magnet fell on my macbook "late 2007 series black" and it stopped working. When i start my macbook up it sits on the white screen. i tried inserting the snow leopard disk to do a clean install but the disk ejects and all i see is the pointer.help please
A magnet fell on my macbook "late 2007 series black" and it stopped working. When i start my macbook up it sits on the white screen. i tried inserting the snow leopard disk to do a clean install but the disk ejects and all i see is the pointer. i even bought a new hard drive to do the clean install but the same thing happens. Please Help
Your problem is not Boot Camp, in fact, is your optical drive. Win XP requires indeed sp2, but also the internal drive, does not work from external optical drive.
For other possible tricks, please use the appropriate Boot Camp forum, not here. Mac OS X may be installed from both external and internal optical drive and/or internal/external partition of a disk, any disk. Windows is not so generous.
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Hi guys i have an macbook 13 late 2007 and does not work when i start it up all u can see is blank white screen and after that its keep bepping high peech tone 3 times i was thinking the hard drive but im not too sure please guys help.
Try to reset the PRAM first then go from there.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 -
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Showing Yellow icons after every 15 to 20 Min and internet stop working.when we enable- disbale the network connection then will internet start working fine.Some time network connection is disable but when we renable that connection it will stuck on enabling
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Sahil bhatejaHi，
So switch a LAN card fix this issue...seems a compatibility issue or maybe some packs or programs you installed recently cause this issue.
Have you manually check the network adapter driver from the PC's manufacture website? sometimes, it will be a time delay before Microsoft push out the driver update.
Check if issue exists in safemode with network, this mode will launch Windows with limited sets of files and drivers.
if you have a restore point, restore the pc to a previous point at which the pc is functioning fine.
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Oct 2014: from Snow Leopard, can you do a clean install using download of OSX10.8?
Hi there,
I'd like to do a clean install from Snow Leopard using the OSX10.8 download from Apple's website. It states there that i must have Snow Leopard already installed to do this, so does that mean it's impossible to do?
I'd appreciate any help on this please.
Thanks for your time,
Richard
MacBook Pro 15", mid 2010 running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, 8gb ram, 500gb HD, Intel Core i7Hi QuickTimeKirk, thanks very much for your prompt reply.
The fact that it's only sold via the App Store with a redemption code - does that mean it's not a full version of Mountain Lion in its own right? It's just an upgrade?
The reason for the 'clean install' is really because part of this whole process is the need to update certain legacy software, and also the machine is starting to show a few unusual behaviours. Nothing too earth shattering, just enough to cause me a bit of grief. So with everything considered i just thought, 'right, time to overhaul the whole system' - what better time to start - repair the HD (if necessary), go through the usual back-up routines and wipe the disk. Hence the decision for a completely clean install.
So, if you happen to know if the Mountain Lion download is a full version that would be great.
Thanks for your help Kirk, it's appreciated, and hope to hear from you soon. Best wishes, Richard -
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There are multiple reasons that lead to issue. You should read the troubleshooting guide to get the right solution to solve the issue: iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch not recognized in iTunes for Windows - Apple Support
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My imac wont get past the white screen with logo and rotating wheel
i was trying to turn on my imac when suddenly ot took forever on the white screen
i tried taking off everything connected to it-no change
i tried a safe mode after a few minuted a heard the second chime then a blinkin
question mark folder showed up so i turned it off again and tried a nvram/pram reset but it still stuck on the white screen
is it time to visit the apple store or is there something else i should try?A flashing question mark or globe appears when you start your Mac
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks without erasing drive
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
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How do I get rid of the white screen of death? :(
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How do i get rid of the white screen of death?
(iPod Touch Gen 2), I don't want to get a new iPod and I heard you can fix it without going to an apple store, are there any solutions..? (:
Please help!! Thank you!!Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
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did a clean install but still find the imac slows as the hours pass. using photoshop cs5 and lightroom3,
working w/some large files, but previously-like months ago, there was not this slowing problem. even
the internet slows later in the day. and small moves in a program start to take forever. anyone experience this
issue? or have any thoughts on it? thank youHow much free space do you have on your drive?
From the sounds of your problem is sounds like you are approaching a full disk.
Allan -
Samsung SSD 470 and Macbook Late 2007
Hi all,
today I wanted to replace the internal HDD of my white macbook 3,1 late 2007 with a Samsung SSD 470 series 64 GB.
Unfortunately, disk utility doesn't "see" the device, so I can't use it. I tried both booting from the Snow Leopard DVD and
the Lion USB-Stick, to no avail. The drive just doesn't show up in disk utility at all.
So I installed it in an external firewire enclosure and that was fine. I could install Lion on it, no problem, so I guess the
hardware is fine. Afterwards, I re-installed the drive on the internal SATA port, but the system can't find a boot device.
I also booted from a Win 7 DVD, but again, the drive doesn't show up as a possible destination for installation.
I checked the firmware revision of the SDD, and it's the latest that's available from the Samsung web page.
Any help here? I guess I'm at loss right now...
Thanks,
JDKDID IT !!!
Salut Jochen !
It is working... but what a struggle.
The ingredients are :
- 2 computers including your macbook
- 1 standard hard drive (best have a new one or one with no OS ever installed on it)
- your SSD drive
- 1 DVD
- Superduper software
So the steps are :
- Make a "Lion clean install DVD" (good tutorials) on computer 1.
- Install the "standard hard drive" in your macbook
- Then clean install Lion via the brand new DVD.
- Now you have Lion on your Macbook... but you want it on a ssd.
- Put your SSD in a Hard drive case to make it an external drive.
- Plug it on your computer 1, format it (erase it)
- Now plug your macbook on computer 1 too and restart it by holding the T key (Target mode)
- On computer 1 you will have your SSD Drive and Macbook as 2 external drives mounted on the desk.
- Superduper or clone your Mackbook on your SSD.
- Open your Macbook and replace standard drive by SSD.
- Switch on your Macbook ! It works fine for me.
- The start is odd it is quite long before the Apple logo pops up but then after it is just sheer madness...
Well I hope you will be able to do it too. It took me hours.
The main problem is using a drive that had Lion on it because it won't let you clean install since Lion is implanting a Fantom partition that makes the whole ssd thing complicated. Hopefully I did'nt have to use Terminal tricks..it just worked fine.
Best regards,
Joffrey -
My MacBook (late 2007, OS 10.6.8) seems to be running more slowly lately. Its especially noticeable when it's runs Safari (currently v5.1. but the macbook and Safari ran slow even before latest software update. I've freed more disk space by deleting unneeded large files. Any other suggestions?
Download Onyx (Google will find it) and run through its all the options of its first three procedures: Verify, Maintenance and Cleaning. Take note of any error messages and reboot when finished.
Let us know if things improve or not.
Bob -
Please help. I can boot up my macbook pro and log in but after that all i see is the wallpaper, toolbar and the dock. In the dock it has 2 ? where the doc and download folders should be. If I open up a new finder window it doesnt show anything in there no hard drive or anything. If anyone konws how to help let me know please and thank you.
Agree with baltwo, though even if you have saved the install app I wouldn't use it unless its been used to install a known good copy of the OS already.
In your case, that probably means start fresh:
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Hi! I work with Photoshop/Premiere Elements 10 on my snow leopard (10.6.8) without problems since years. Now I want to move over to the new MacBook Pro (and lion 10.7.5) but only Photoshop runs on it, every Premiere version (I downloaded Elements 12 and further more) stops installation and shows Installation ERROR: ASU has quit unexpectedly, Media DB Error: 18. Please help!
run the cleaner and retry installing per, Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6
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What SSD For Macbook Late 2007
Hi all.
As a second Mac ive just bought a second hand Macbook 2.2Ghz Core2Duo late 2007 model odd a friend for a very reasonable price.
Ive already ordered some RAM to max it out as it only has the stock 1GB and 160Gb HDD. to go with the ram i would like to upgrade to an SSD drive and am aware that this model is a Sata I connection at 1.5Gbps throughput. As most drives are now Sata II or III am i ok buying one of these? Im only after a circa 128Gb SSD as will be plenty for my needs. Im a uk based user and am a graphic designer so this machine will be mainly a web machine for net use with light photoshop/illustrator/indesign use.
Im currently running Snow leopard on it and intend to keep it that way, unless ML would give me speed increases on a machine of this era?
Crucial states their M500 Sata III drives are compatible, so am i wright to assume any Sata II or III drive will be ok?
Any help and recomendations are very much appreciated and i thank you kindly in advance!
RobMike,
Funny you ask, as when you posted that i was actually out buying the Samsung 840 120Gb SSD.
Basically the Macbook i picked up cheap off a mate was new to me last week. Came from a very particular owner that looks after things extremeley well. Its a 2007 2.2Ghz 3.1 model that ive upped to 4Gb RAM, and had wiped clean and reinstalled a fresh copy off snow leopard onto.
So today i came home with said SSD, and earlier this morning i had cloned the fresh install onto a firewire 400 drive ready to go. The 840 aleready had the latest firmware revision listed on Samasungs website, so i went ahead and removed the 5400rpm HDD it had from new, put the SSD in (never done one before and was surprised just how easy this was).
Then i booted up off my external drive, and the OS advised it could see the internal SSD but could not write to it - did i want to initialise. So after i clciked yes, i was able to erase and restore from my external back to the SSD. It has then booted up fine from the inmternal, taking longer on the first boot (i beleive this is normal). I installed and turned on the 'Enable Trim' app and rebooted twice. the second time getting a significant increase in boot time and all apps.
System profiler shows TRIM support on and the up to date firmware revision.
Snappy snappy! And my favourite new feature of the SSD? the fact that i feel no vibration when on my lap! Oh and the speed.
So yes, this Sata III drive seems to be fully fuctional on a Sata I interface, and although not as fats as newer Sata II and III machines, i feels alot snappier than before. And cooler as well. havent heard the fan so far since cloning back.
And thanks for your help and input earlier in the post!
The guy in the shop advised me it wouldnt work in my Mac (dumb-***) although i had specifically searched out product reviews that people had said had had success on Sata I and II machines of this vintage. -
Cable to migrate from Macbook (late 2007) to Mac Mini 2012?
What cable should I use to migrate files from Macbook (late 2007) to Mac Mini 2012. The ethernet migration took 30 hours. The Macbook messaged success but the Mini did not show that any files were transfered.
Where did you look for the migrated files? Look in the /Users/ folder and see if there isn't a new user account. If so, then log into that account where you should find what you migrated.
The only way to do a migration any faster and more reliably is if both computers have Firewire ports. If they do then you can use Target Disk Mode to migrate. -
Hi!
I have a late 2007 macbook and until last year it worked fine.
It started to freeze and the beach ball kept appearing more and more, until I restarted it one day and I got the problem with the grey screen with the apple logo and de progress bar that got stuck at 10% and after a while it rebooted and did the same thing all over again and again and again. I couldn't start my macbook anymore, after some research I decided to replace the harddrive and the macbook worked fine again, for a while..
2 months ago the same thing with the grey screen, Did soms VRAM and PRAM stuff and when I waited (like an half hour) it suddenly started the OS again. Disk Utillity told me to backup and repair the OS. Did that and seemed to be ok again. But now my macbook keeps freezing again, beach ball thing all over again and besides that the macbook fans make a lot more noise.
Don't know what to do right now and I'm searching for some advise, is it old and dying? At he moment I can't work on the poor thing.. I think it useless to put more money in it, but giving up is too easy..Hi there. I feel you on the frustration. I had the same fork in the road a while back with my Black MacBook (display issue). In any case, 2011 has it's bright side in that hard drive costs are way way down (cheap like dirt), and it just MIGHT be your hard drive. You can never have enough external storage, so if you buy a hard drive and it isn't a hard drive problem, you can use that to back up the OSX of your next new Mac!
But that's not my point.
See here for some excellent advice (next to visiting a Genius bar):
(Go straight to the answer part... If you are into do-it-yourself answers, BGreg has a great set right there...)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2795391&tstart=0
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