Boot problem that sometimes isn't
i have this weird issue. when i try and boot up my Powerbook G4 (1.5Ghz) i get the chime, but then usually nothing happens, blank screen with no power. i hold down the power button to shut it off and try again and get the chime, but nothing happens. but then sometimes it boots up after like 10 minutes, while other times it boots up like everything's perfectly fine, no long wait. each time i try i can get the chime, but whether or not anything happens after that is anyone's guess. sometimes it has problems waking from sleep too. but also, other times it wakes just fine.
i want to say this could be due to the 10.4.10 update and thus a software issue, since that's the only major thing that i've done to it in recent days, and especially since i get the startup chime fine every time. seems like each time i go to turn it on, usually after 3 or 4 attempts i can get it to start.
any ideas what the deal is and what i could try to do to fix it would be much appreciated.
DId you do the update via the software update function? Sometimes it doesn't update everything properly. Software update issues are often fixed by installing the combo update, which can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx10410comboupdat eppc.html
Use disk utility (on your hard drive in applications/utilties) to repair permissions before installing as well as after installation.
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Creative MegaWorks 250D, a little problem that sometimes is annoying.
This is no hissing problem, I just have a little bit hissing that is normal. The little problem I have is kind of hard to explain. Its very hard to hear it when listening to music, and I can hear it sometimes when playing games depending on which sounds appearing. I can hear it kind of good when listening to voices in games or a movie. Its like a background sound to the voices and it sounds like a light "wooming" and that is sometimes annoying. Its like a air sound, a light air sound... The sound doesnt come from the speakers because if I listen near the left or right speaker I cant hear it. Its when Im sitting in normal way in front of the speakers I can hear it so its probably the subwoofer. I have tried to move the subwoofer longer away from the speakers and I think that helped a little bit. Does anyone have any ideas? Does anyone have the same thing? Try to listen at the background of voices, it sounds like a "whoom" like a distortion or something.
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The mother of all re-boot problems.
Hi All,
I've got that re-boot problem that seems very common but the solutions out there aren't working.
Basically the computer will turn on, chime, grey screen comes up, shortly after apple logo, and then the gear starts turning, about 2 minutes later restart, process repeats.
I've tried.
- Booting from CD/Recovery Disk - Won't happen
- A million different key combinations, I've read about 10 different posts on key combinations and tried them all, including PRAM reset, boot from different source, etc.
Basically it's like my keyboard commands aren't being heard at all, but to test if the keyboard was working I pressed the caps lock button and the light was going on and off which tells me its powered. The only kind of input I have been able to acheive is by holding the mouse button down to eject the CD, other than that I have absolutly no control what so ever.
Would like any insight.
Cheers,
Jarrod.HI,
If you've had your iMac for less then one year then it's covered by the one year limited warranty.
Take it to an Apple store or an Apple certified repair provider.
Carolyn
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NI VB connected to our docking station sometimes face boot/re-boot problems
Since we have the ‘National Virtual Bench’ connected to our docking station (USB) we sometimes face some boot/re-boot problems with our laptop.
The booting hangs, and shows below message on the display. Power Off/On doesn’t help.
It appears to be caused by the Virtual Bench, when switched On. When Switched Off, booting is okay.
Switch off the Virtual Bench box when booting/re-booting the Laptop.
Just to follow up: The behavior I was getting above (stuck at the Dell logo for ~80 seconds) was because the Dell Latitude E6330 BIOS (version A02) wasn't giving the device a standards-permitted amount of time after a particular USB control message. That problem was fixed in version A06.
I was able to reproduce your issue on the E6330 with BIOS versions A08 through A14. Those versions seems to get confused by the presence of a composite USB device with both HID and Mass Storage interfaces (such as VirtualBench). A14 is currently the latest version for that model, so I suspect this is still a problem in the latest versions for other Dell Latitudes and Optiplexes.
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"that domain isn't allowed to be relayed thru this MTA " : Problem and fix
I am using Java mail to send emails out at work through my web email account.
Sometimes it works fine, but after a while, it gives me the following error :
javax.mail.SendFailedException: Invalid Addresses;
nested exception is:
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I waited for a few days, and tried one more time, it worked again for a few emails, then it failed again. I went into my Thunderbird where I had this web account set up so I can both send and receive emails, I tried to send out an email, it worked, then I used my Java email program to send email from work through this web account, it works again. It seems Thunderbird can fix the problem for me. Does any one know how I can fix it in Java so I don't have to start Thunderbird and send an email to fix the error ?
FrankYou're confusing things here by using your ISP's mail server at work instead
of your work mail server.
Still, your ISP's mail server is probably imposing similar restrictions as your
work mail server. It doesn't want to allow just anyone to connect and send
mail to anywhere. That's how spam is sent. Most people control this by requiring
you to login to the SMTP server before it will let you send mail. Some people use
the hack of requiring you to login to the POP3 server first, and then it will allow
you to connect to the SMTP server without logging in and will allow you to send
mail.
You seem to be missing some basic understanding of JavaMail and what it
means to "connect to a mail server". Maybe you don't understand the difference
between a Store and a Transport. POP3 is a Store protocol. SMTP is a Transport
protocol.
The JavaMail demo directory is full of programs that should how to connect to
a mail server (Store) to read messages, the most useful of which is the msgshow.java
demo program. JavaMail doesn't require you to wire in knowledge of the Store
protocol. You can write a program that can connect to any type of Store, and then
tell it at runtime to use the "pop3" protocol. Looking at msgshow.java, if you pass
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1st series iMac G5: Booting problems, kernel panics, waking from sleep...
Specifications of the iMac described: 1.8 Ghz, 1GB, 80GB, 64 Mb Nvidia VRAM, Airport, 10.5.5
Back in August 2004 my dad bought us kids an iMac G5 for ‘family use’. It had a fresh install of 10.3.5 on it and compared to the (1999) iMac G3 it replaced it was amazingly fast.
The iMac never showed any signs of probable issues, until we decided to upgrade to Leopard in January 2008. Initially, this upgrade was only meant to be able to sync with the latest iPod nano (who demanded a newer version of iTunes).
After the installation the first thing I noticed was a high CPU usage, the machine seemed slower than ever and that with 1 Gb of RAM (the minimum sys. req. for Leopard are 512 Mb of RAM). Anyway, then the real thing started, it wouldn’t turn on anymore. We brought it to an Authorized Apple Reseller, the Tech department said the Logic board had failed. The costs of the fix weren’t the worth the computer anymore, so...end of story. The iMac was indeed one of the bad series, although it hadn’t any swollen capacitors.
My dad already made up his mind and bought himself a Macbook. He then told me that if I was able to get the broken iMac fixed, I could keep it. And so, I bought an ‘as-is’ logic board on Ebay. Last weekend I installed it, and it actually seemed to work! Yet, the problems are during the startup: the first thing I see is a screen full with horizontal lines flickering all the time, like an old TV with bad signal. Mostly it won’t boot and I get the message to restart the computer (kernel panic, I got dozens of logs already!). Sometimes it got stuck during booting (grey apple screen with gear in the middle) making the fans go crazy (after a while) and sounding what others describe as a ‘jetliner taking off’ sound. Sometimes the screen remains black. Generally it takes me 5 to 10 minutes to start up properly. Maybe it’s just me but it seems like when the computer has warmed up a little (by turning on and off on and on) starting up gets smoother. I mean the startup screen suffers from less horizontal flickering lines.
During the use of Leopard, I again get high CPU usage, especially when I use multiple programs at the same time, or when starting multiple programs. My iStat Pro said once that the fans were running at 4700 rpm and the heat of the CPU was about 70 Celsius. If I really want to **** my iMac off I should play a racing game. That just totally freaks him out! These problems could probably be solved by adding more RAM. Right?
The iMac also has a sleep problem. Sometimes after lets say an hour or so, you can’t get it out of sleep mode (by manipulating keyboard and/or mouse, the sleep light stops, but the screen stays off --> only solution is to restart). What happened to me once was that it slept so long that it just got into a deep sleep by turning itself off completely!
Here’s a list of what I tried so far:
- Disk Utility: Resetting the permissions, no problems were found.
- Resetting the SMU, both on the logic board itself as by pressing the power button 5 - 8 seconds, no improvements.
- Resetting the PRAM, no improvements.
- Did the Hardware test of the original install CD, nothing was found, all good.
- Did Archive and Instal, this actually messed my system entirely, cause it wouldn't boot at all and when starting up from the Leopard installation DVD it wouldn't recognize the Macintosh HD.
- Did Archive and Instal with the original disks, this disk did recognize Macintosh HD and so I installed the original system, 10.3. Booting problems and those flickering lines are still there though.
Next phase will be erase and install, but first I want to know what you guys think about all this.
Oh eh, One more thing; The guys at Applecare (phone support) told me that the replaced logic board was also out of warranty and so they couldn’t help me. But as the man on the phone was kind, he told me to go look for a special ‘driver’ on the net. He said that the driver should be able to resolve some of the issues described. He said that I had to give in the name of the LB on google and look for results. Is this bogus? Because I haven’t found anything useful on google so far. What’s the name (rather than a number) of the LB in the first place?
I hope you guys can give me some answers. I'm kinda desperate. But I still feel there's hope...The symptoms of a flakey power supply are sleep problems and you have done all the right things as far as resetting the SMU and PRAM. Your CPU usage can be tracked by going to Utilities>Activity Monitor - look and see what is hogging the memory. The flickering lines could also be an optical system going south.
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Hello everyone,
I have a Beige G3 MT with the following specs:
541 MHz G4 processor
83 MHz System Bus
384 MB PC133 SDRAM (2x128 MB, 1x 256 MB Single-sided)
ATI Radeon Mac Edition with 32 MB VRAM
Keyspan PCI USB 1.1 card (OPTi)
80 GB 5400 RPM Samsung HD on the onboard IDE
Apple CDRW unit pulled from a Quicksilver G4
Inactive SCSI
Original PRAM Battery (but apparently still in good state)
Oh, and an AV personality card.
The Hard Drive is partitioned into three sections:
-One 7.9 GB Partition for OS X (Jaguar)
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-And another partition for all the rest
I have transfered the mobo to a PC ATX case, which involved removing the DB-15 port. The default video output is set to the Radeon thanks to XPF.
Everything worked fine for a few months (Both Jaguar and 9.1 took an eternity to boot, but that seems normal). Recently Jaguar became very unstable, and often froze. After a few restarts, I would run into a kernel panic at each startup, right before the desktop appears.
Now, when I power up the machine, I get the chime, run into the Open Firmware screen, with the message 'can't OPEN' repeating itself. The ADB keyboard still works, and the computer boots into the standard Open Firmware screen ( with the boot options) when the Command, Option, O and F keys are held down. When I try to boot into Jaguar, I get the same 'can't OPEN' message, and when I attempt to boot into OS 9, it freezes. Booting with CMD-Opt-P-R makes the computer reboot as usual, but when I let it boot normally into OS 9 after the third chime, it freezes.
I cannot boot from a CD, as I presume that the problem occurs before boot options are considered. At any rate, inserting an OS 9 or OS X CD and holding down the C key has no effect whatsoever.
I am now out of solutions and theories, and any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Macinnerd.Thank you all very much for your quick, helpful and abundant answers.
Dan- The G3 sets the default output to the built-in RagePro (it's Pro indeed, thanks for the correction) graphics system, anything during the boot before the blue OS X screen is displayed through the default output. As I have removed the DB15 port (large cracks were appearing in the original case...), the ragePro is completely useless, and I need to set the Radeon as default output in order to see any messages or screens during the initial bits of the startup process.
The CDRW pulled from the G4 is a genuine Apple device, and I have booted OS CDs from it before, so there are no problems there.
AllanGlenHW- Yes, the Beige has spent a few months unplugged before being put back to use a few years ago. As I said, the battery is the original one, so it really needs to be changed, I guess.
Are there any other devices (cameras?...) that use the same battery so that I may go find it in some photo store or something?
Mauro-
The BEige was having difficulties installing Jaguar on its own so I decided to use XPostFAcTo. Obviously that has good sides ans bad sides, as you pointed out.
The question is: is there a way to effectively remove it (and all extensions) from the System?
The problems started approximately two months after the relocation. I don't think that the relocation is the culprit, though...
Grant-
When attempting to get the Beige to reset PRAM, I sometimes get a freeze after two chimes and sometimes it goes long as long as I hold down the keys.
It's an interestins (and most likely useful) piece of advice. Thanks.
Patrick+Frank-
Yes, the 256 stick is a single sided 8 chip one, and the system has always detected only 384 MB. It was already like this when I got the machine.
Thanks for all the advice. But I have a question about finding the batteries:
Are there any other devices (cameras?...) that use the same battery so that I may go find it in some photo store or something?
I live in France (not French, mind you), and can't find any similar PRAM batteries in any of the big computing sites. -
MSI P45 Neo-f with intermittent boot problems
Current system:
*CPU: Intel core2duo 4300 1,80GHz
Mobo: MSI P45 Neo-F LGA775
*Memory: 1 Kingston 1GB PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2 and 1 Dane-Elec 1GB PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2
Videocard: Club3D Nvidia 8800GT 512MB GDDR3
*Hard drive: 120GB IBM deskstar 7200rpm Ultra-ATA/100 (yes I realize it is known as the deathstar, but it hasn't failed so far, I do back-up because I'm paranoid
PSU: Real Silent Nexus NX-5000 500 watt
*Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy
OS: Windows XP home, service pack 2
*Lite-on IT dvd-rom drive
*floppy disk drive
I also have 3 case fans spinning away in a marginally large Chieftec Dragon tower.
The parts I marked with an asterisk (*) are parts that I removed from my old rig and re-used.
I'll try to give a clear rundown of my problem and the steps I've taken so far.
3 days ago I acquired the P45 Neo and installed it into my system, together with the 8800GT videocard. I was still using my old PSU, a Chieftec 360watt. This PSU served me well for 7 years, but it was starting to build up noise while trying to keep up games on my old rig.
I had some trouble getting the system to boot, I tried changing some of the 4 pins wires going to the hard drive and the dvd drive. I don't know if it was luck or if I managed to divide the load properly for the system to boot. But I succeeded into booting up, got into the bios and eventually installed WinXP.
As soon as it was time to install the videocard drivers, it stopped responding. I assumed it was a power issue, since I could only install the 20pin and 4pin cpu, but my Chieftec PSU didn't have a 24pin plug to the mobo - and it needed replacing anyway! So I bought a new 500watt PSU that had all the required plugs and more wattage.
I installed the new PSU, checked every connection and pressed the power button. 'Lo and behold, the computer starts up. I install the videocard drivers and it proceeds with no problems. I try to install the soundcard, but the cd says I don't have one installed. I fix that by going to the System list and install the drivers from there. I install a firewall. By then I have successfully rebooted the computer 3 or 4 times. I decide all is well and turn off the computer. But I realize I wanted to check up something on the internet.
I press the powerbutton. The PC power light go up for just a fraction of a second. I can see the blue LED of one of the case fans switching on just as briefly - then it goes out. The computer keeps trying to turn itself on. It looks like it's hickupping to try and boot!
I turn off the PSU power on the back-side because the computer keeps trying and wait for a bit. After 10 minutes, it still doesn't work. I leave the computer for a bit and return an hour later. The computer then starts up with no problems. I turn it off after a few hours, do a reset, start it up, no problems. But then the next day it happens again.
It's pretty tough figuring out what the problem is because it looks..almost random. I considered it could be a heat issue, but sometimes it *does* start up just after it's been turned down. Checking the bios shows no strange temperature shifts.
Hope anyone can help me, because I do not want to go back to my old Asrock moboWhile powered down I cleared the cmos data, removed the Dane Elec DDR2 module and set the bios to optimized defaults. Computer restarted to WinXP with no problems (it has been off the whole night). I shut down WinXP, wait a few moments and then turn the computer back on. Alas, it won't start and starts hick-upping. I turn power off at the PSU again, so it stops.
Now I try switching out the Kingston module instead. By now the computer has been off for 10 min (while I write this entry on laptop). I press the power button on the PSU and then the power button on the front. There is a short pause, lasting a second. The computer turns on, longer now, but it only lasts 2 whole seconds before it turns off again and goes on again (I believe now you can call it powercycling). It repeats this process until I shut off the PSU.
I check to see if I have installed it properly and try again but it starts powercycling again.
15 min pass, I put the Kingston module back in, press the power button and voila, this time it does start. WinXP shows up, no problems. I leave it on for a bit and then shut down. And when I press the power button again - the feeling of dread returns, when it starts hickupping again.
I'm going to see if I can install one of the memory modules from my housemate. Then hopefully tommorrow, I'm going to try if I can test a different PSU, since I see someone else on the forum - who recently posted, has the exact same power supply and also has boot problems, coincidence... or not ^^;. -
Hi, I have an early 2008 Mac Pro which has re-booting problems.
Processor speed is: 2.8
Memory: 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
2 x 28GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
I am running OSX Yosemite Version 10.10
My Mac Pro keeps re-booting. Last year I had to replace my graphics card. My original card was the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 255MB, and that is what I have now. At this precise moment my Mac Pro is running perfectly, except that it is slow and the spinning beach-ball keeps appearing. I have managed to do some work with the disk utilities, verifying, cleaning and partitioning. Some errors were found and when it was cleaned this seemed to help my Mac Pro to function properly. Although I am able to use my Mac Pro now, from day to day I still experience re-boot problems. Also quite unexpectedly my mac dictionary has an error, it closed itself down and will not open at all, I had the message to say that a report will be sent to Apple.
I have tried starting my computer with an external hard drive fitted via a USB cable, I use for back-ups. This worked and I was able to wipe my hard drive clear and replace all info from the back up I had done only a few days ago.
This worked for a few days and then the same problem started again.
I am beginning to wonder if I need to buy a new hard drive.
If there is anyone who has some answers to help me solve my problem, I would be most grateful.
RobertWhen you have the beachball activity, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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