Black Screen of Nothing after Lion Upgrade

Trying to follow any intelligent response from Apple here has been useless - threads deleted and failures to acknowledge any problem.  But unfortunately there is a real problem with Apple's Lion / MacBook Pro line where the computer periodically ( for my visual effect ) just stops working and a hard reset is required.  The mouse is still responsive but nothing else.
Where or what is a fix to make these laptops functional ?

Had my first experience with this just now. Shut down the MBPr for it's longest off time since getting it last week (about 6 hrs) and logged in to the BSOD.
My go-to solution on any other MacBook has always been the PRAM reset.
Restart your machine. Hold down CMD+OPT+P+R before the gray screen shows up (harder now than on the older, slower machines). Keep holding it down until the startup sound plays 2 or 3 times. Then release the keys and let it boot up normally.
No idea why this works. Don't have any clue what PRAM even is or what it would have to do with all this - but it worked for me. At least this time. Maybe it won't the next!
Hope it helps you all...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Similar Messages

  • Help! Stuck on boot screen (no spinning) after Lion upgrade.

    Did an install of Lion on husbands week and a half old macbook pro 15". Right as I started the installation I had to get up to help my little one go back to bed. Briefly checked the progress of the install when I got back to the computer, still had some time left so I went to watch TV. Got up to see the boot screen up and decided to give the install more time just in case. It's now been about 2-3 hours on the boot screen. What should I do. I should mention the drive already has a bootcamp partition as well as the SL partition. Please help! I'm really hoping I didn't break his new computer (Tech really isn't his thing so it's up to me).
    This is the screen I'm stuck on. Cursor works but that's it.

    Re-starting and re-installing from the bootable drive I made seems to have fixed the issue. I'm performing a disk and permission repair now in disk utilities as a precaution now. Reinstall from disk took forever. Unfortunately didn't have any available USB or Firewire drives to try an alternate means of install.

  • After Lion upgrade, MacBookPro has trouble wake from sleep.

    After Lion upgrade, my Macbook Pro now sometimes will not wake from sleep.  If I close the lid the pulsating light pulsates. Open the lid and the pulsating light goes out and the keyboard backlight activate, screen blank and no keyboard response.

    I've been looking for answers, since upgrading to lion, my problem is more of a nusance, when I close the lid on my macbook pro (15" 2.66 i7, 8GB RAM) and it goes into sleep mode, when I reopen the screen the screen backlight comes up momentarily, then goes black (screen image there, just no backlighting) nothing gets it to come out (reclose/open, clicking trackpad, any keys, etc.) except the F1 key.  Pushing the F1 "wakes" the backlighting, then I just hit the F2 to brighten it back up, I don't have any further issues until I close it again.  Granted not that big of a deal given all the issues everyone else is having with this, but still a nusance I would like to fix.  Don't know if this will work for you, but it's been working for me.
    I have the same problem with my MBP 17"
    Would have been nice if Apple had taken the time to respond.

  • I DVD Soft Frame template issue after Lion upgrade.

    Hello, I've just updated my os to Lion but the Soft Frame template in iDVD, (7.1.2) is no longer working correctly. The light coloured background which covers the right hand side of the frame is missing and has been replaced with black. This issue effects sub menus as well. Existiting and new projects using Soft Frame suffer from this problem... Any ideas would be gratefully received! I have tried re installing iDVD but this had no effect.

    OK I fixed it, sort of. The .tif file which provides the background image had disappeared. Even deleting IDVD and its themes and re-installing didn't work. So here's what I did:
    1) Make a new background. This can be any graduated colour field which you can make on any paint programme such as GIMP. However I grabbed the background from the `Forever' theme which is beige and adjusted the hue to turn it from brown to the blue which was close to the old 'Soft Frame' backing.
    Here's how to find the 'Forever' background:
    Go to your hard disk and look for Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes/iDVD7/Forever-Main.theme
    CTRL click on it and select `Show Package Contents'
    Expand the contents folder and then the resources folder and look for the .tif file marked Forever-Background.tif
    Drag this into your photo editing programme and change the colour to what you want.
    Save the new file as tpt.tif on your desktop (there is a reason for this filename)
    2) Replace the defective backgounds in the `Soft Frame' themes
    Go to your hard disk and look for Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes/iDVD7/Softframe-Chapters.theme
    CTRL click on it and select `Show Package Contents'
    Expand the contents folder then the resources folder and look for the file marked tpt.tif and delete it
    Drag the tpt.tif file you saved to your desktop into the Resources folder
    Now do the same thing in Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes/iDVD7/Softframe-Extras.theme
    And do the same thing in Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes/iDVD7/Softframe-Main.theme
    Next time you launch iDVD it will pick up the new backgrounds.
    It took me about 10 minutes.
    Now I've found where the backgrounds are stored (if you select Project...project info in the iDVD menu the media pane lists the full path) I realise it is easy to put your own backgrounds into any of the existing projects.
    I hope this helps.
    iDVD background missing after Lion upgrade 

  • Timestamp became incorrect after Lion upgrade

    What goes wrong:
    It seems the timestamp became incorrect after Lion upgrade.
    Timemachine backups are date 26th of Januari 2011, while it is November 3rd.
    Same goes for folders, files etc.
    System specs:
    MacPro 4-core
    HDD's: 1TB WD Caviar blacks.
    Upgrade of WD installed after LION release.
    Any suggestion?

    1) Make sure the system Date & Time is correct, and the location/Time Zone is correct
    System Preferences > Date & Time
    That will probably not be the problem, but you need to make sure there are no issues there.
    2) Next, open
    System Preferences > Languages and Texts > Format pane ...
    and reselect a standard Date and Time FORMAT.

  • After lion upgrade time capsule no longer backs up

    Time capsule no longer will back up after lion upgrade is anyone else having this problem?

    The Time Machine application is part of the Lion operating system, so you will likely get a faster and more informed response if you post in the Lion support area for Time Machine. There are a number of posts there with issues similar to yours.
    Mac OS X v10.7 Lion
    Click on the Refine This List button under the Lion and then click on Time Machine to get to the support area.

  • Having problems watching a tv series on iTunes on my macbook pro. bought from iTunes on this device but when i go to play it all it does is have a black screen and nothing happens or plays at all. any suggestions?

    having problems watching a tv series on iTunes on my macbook pro. bought from iTunes on this device but when i go to play it all it does is have a black screen and nothing happens or plays at all. any suggestions?

    Hello toddy7,
    Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
    For more information, take a look at:
    iTunes: How to install the latest version
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5654
    Mac: Choose iTunes > Check for Updates.
    Have a nice day,
    Mario

  • My grandsons new Apple refurbed 35g ipad keeps locking up with a black screen amd nothing else. I have reset it many times pressing the home and off buttons together but uit keeps locking up. Help,please!

    My grandsons new Apple refurbed 35g ipad keeps locking up with a black screen amd nothing else. I have reset it many times pressing the home and off buttons together but it keeps locking up. Help,please!

    Thank you for trying to help. I followed your instructions, it took 6 hours to download, and then said it could not solve the problem (something to do with error 9?). It will have to go back to Apple - its only 3 days since it came out of the package and its very disappointing for him. Looks like I have to hang around in the Apple store in Plymouth all tomorrow until they can fix it, or will change it. Thanks for your help.

  • Preview issue. Send to iPhoto option is grayed out after Lion upgrade

    Preview issue. Send to iPhoto option is greyed out after Lion upgrade.
    In Snow Leopard it was an option to send pics from Preview to iPhoto, but now it is greyed out if I right-click on the pic. I have searced and tried everything, but I cannot fix it, so does anyone have a fix for it? Please :-)

    I can offer no help but would also like to see this issue resolved.  Firstly, it would be useful to know if this problem is seen by everyone.  When viewing photos in Preview, with thumbnails in the sidebar, right-clicking on any of the thumbnails results in this:
    Prior to the upgrade to Lion, "Send to iPhoto" was not greyed out and worked as expected.

  • Safari Crashes on Opening after Lion upgrade!

    I just upgraded to Lion, and I try to open Safari, but it crashes before it loads my homepage!
    I had recently set my default browser to Chrome in Snow Leopard the other day pre-upgrade, could that have something to do with it?

    I'm using SL and found the perfect solution. 1) Follow oh_okay 's instructions, 2) download and reinstall Lastpass, 3) Restart Safari 5.1 and all should work fine. With this lastest update to Safari Lastpass functions a bit differently, having it's own tool bar with the option to hide. You have to click on the grey star, which stays grey, when logged in. There may be a tweek for that, which I haven't gotten to yet.
    oh_okay 
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Re: Safari Crashes on Opening after Lion upgrade! 
    Jul 20, 2011 10:31 PM (in response to Amgreen)
    I've actually just found a solution.
    As it turns out, LastPass was causing my crashes, too.
    I had to find my SIMBL folder (~Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/LastPass.bundle) and remove the LastPass plugin.
    After that, all was well. Not sure if I need to reinstall LastPass now or just pay for (what I've heard is the far superior) 1Password.

  • Time Machine lost all backups after Lion upgrade

    After Lion upgrade TM asked me to perform a 13 hours backup; I've agreed but now the oldest backup is 3 days ago. What is happened?
    Please can somebody help me?
    Thanks

    I can't help here, but before I upgraded my old G5 (OS 10.5.8) TM popped up a message saying that old files had just been deleted. That was what TM does when its HD is getting full. But this was strange because I knew that I had lots of TM space, and since the last use of the conputer (about 2 hours before) I certainly had not saved to the internal HD several GB of files. To my astonishment, all but the last 4 weeks of files had been deleted, back to Jan 2010! GetInfo said that the space left was about the same as before the incident, whereas it should have shown a huge amount of free space.
    I deleted all the remaining backup files and started again. It shook my confidence in TM's ability ot provide a reliable backup system. Now I regard it as a useful source of recovering old versions of files (eg., text, images etc.), rather than as a means to restore the system hard drive. Fortunately, I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner for years to make bootable backups of the whole system HD which can then be used, by simply cloning back to the system HD, to get back to work using the state of the HD when I last cloned. Alternately, the clone on the backup disc can be simply examined in the Finder to recover individual files.

  • Anyone have problems getting Office 2004 to run after Lion upgrade?

    Anyone have problems getting Office 2004 to run after Lion upgrade?

    For the rare few, such as myself, who have some Office 2004 or older documents that fail to translate well in Office 2011, another option is to run Office 2004 in Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) installed in Parallels:
                             [click on image to enlarge]
    Full Snow Leopard installation instructions are here:
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

  • Garbled Audio After Lion Upgrade

    I've scanned the forums, but the only audio bug I can find seems related, but not identical to mine.  I just installed OS X Lion on my Mac Pro (2x2.66 GHz Dual-Score Zeon with 4GB Ram).  Now all of a suddenly all my audio sounds garbled, almost inverted.  Some musical elements are strong, but human voice is indecipherable.  This is completely strange.
    I've tried messing with preferences, and the Audio MIDI Setup like some others have suggested, but to no avail.
    Help!
    Sno

    I also have popping/clicking in many forms of sound/video after Lion upgrade.  iMac 2.66GHz Core 2 duo, 6g ram
    Putting the computer to sleep and waking it works for a time, but it eventually returns.
    A quicker fix which likely does the same thing is to send a kill -9 signal in Terminal.app to the "coreaudiod" process and force it to restart.
    nestor:~ fbhjr$ ps aux | grep coreaudio _coreaudiod    60080   1.0  0.1  2453812   6436   ??  Ss   11:32AM       0:06.78 /usr/sbin/coreaudiod 
    nestor:~ fbhjr$ sudo kill -9 60080

  • TS3938 after lion upgrade, i need to upgrade to Office 2011 or iWork (Pages)..my desktop is from 2007. which should i try?

    after lion upgrade, i need to upgrade to Office 2011 or iWork (Pages)..my desktop is from 2007. which should i try?

    You are on Windows 2000, you do not have a "Firefox" button, and should consider yourself to be fortunate in that you still have menus and don't have to do anything to get the menus back instead of the "Firefox" button. (The same applies to Windows XP users).
    Use the "File" menu to get to Import. You are not on Windows 7 or Vista, and don't have to put up with the nonsense added for Aero.
    If you want the "Firefox" button you can get it with View -> toolbars -> (uncheck) Menu Bar. The menu bar and the "Firefox" button were supposed to be mutually exclusive (which is impossible in some cases without being incompatible).
    Once you are using the "Firefox" button ...
    Use the "Alt" key to view the menu bar (temporarily) containing File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, and Help. On Windows 7 and Vista, the menu bar was hidden by default in Firefox 4 and above. These menu items are more or less available under the "Firefox" button which has the most used of the built-in Firefox menu items available in a different format.
    To get back to having menus again. "Firefox" button -> Options (second column) -> (check) Menu Bar
    You can make '''Firefox 7.0.1''' look like Firefox 3.6.*, see numbered '''items 1-10''' in the following topic [http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 4.0 thru 8.0, look like 3.6)]. ''Whether or not you make changes, you should be aware of what has changed and what you have to do to use changed or missing features.''
    * http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface

  • N8 dead Black Screen and nothing happens!

    I there. I bought my n8 yesterday, I used it fine until a couple hours ago now, when it went black screen and nothing happens! Turn it off and then on but the screen does not light up, it shows only the screen protector with the hour and the date, but nothing else happens. What should I do???

    @soviettiger
    As you have only had the phone for a few days I would take it back to where you bought it from and ask them to have a look at it.
    Perhaps they can either exchange it for another one or give you your money back.
    BTW mine does what yours does occasionally and I just unlock the screen with the unlock button on the right hand side of the phone.
    You could also try turning your phone off for around 15/30 seconds. Turn it back on. When the home screen appears, on the dialler type *#7780#. The phone will switch off on then back on again. Might/mightnot solve your problem.

Maybe you are looking for