Can't start macbook air osx maveriks

can't start macbook air osx maveriks

What happens when you try to start?
Portables that will not Power on.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1365

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  • Can't start MacBook Air––wheel turns around forever

    I had my MacBook Air A Rev C 1.86GHz 120 GB powered on and on sleep for about a week. I was using my other MacBook Air and so left this MBA on sleep.
    I decided to use the older MacBook Rev C Air again and I tried connecting the ethernet cable to it. The internet connection didn't work, so I restarted the computer thinking it might help.
    However, the computer DOES kind of start and I get the apple logo and the light gray background but the wheel goes on forever, for 30 minutes.
    When I tried Option-Start, I was able to get into the Windows partition fine, but when I tried Option-Start and selected Mac, I have the same problem––the gray screen and the wheel thing under the Apple logo going around for a while.
    I never had any major problems with the computer in the past, and I never had this problem of starting the computer. It was a bit sluggish––would take 3 minutes to start up, but never as long as this. I have tried rebooting several times and it still does not work.
    I should tell you that I pressed the "Shut Down" button for five seconds to shut down the computer.
    Do you think that caused it?
    How can I get the Mac OS back?
    Once again, getting into Windows Bootcamp is fine, it's just the Mac part I can't access.
    I have the hard drive saved on a backup.
    Should I try reinstalling the OS? And do a clean install? And then put all the information back onto the computer using the backup drive?
    Just checking here before I try that because that solution takes time.

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    Something happened when I connected the ethernet cord to the USB port and then connected the router. It mucked up my computer and swallowed up GB. I had about 10 GB spare before this happened.
    That is probably why the computer can't start up and is stuck at the gray screen with the whirly thing going around forever––there is no disk space for it use its start programs.
    I don't know how to clear the unwanted Gigabytes because I can only see Mac HD from Bootcamp.
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  • TS1486 Can't start MacBook air

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    What happens when you put it on the charger and tap the power button?

  • IMac can see my Macbook Air but not my Macbook

    Recently upgraded iMac and Macbook to 10.5.8, Macbook Air running 10.5.7
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    All was fine until yesterday.
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    Can confirm that Security/Firewall on the Macbook is set to "Allow All Incoming Connections"
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    try this:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2119171&tstart=30

  • Hi, Please let me know if i can connect my MacBook Air to sony led TV ex700 using a bluetooth device?

    Hi, Please let me know if i can connect my MacBook Air to sony led TV ex700 using a bluetooth device?

    Your Macbook Air does have Bluetooth on it... so I would assume so.
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  • MacBook Air osx 10.7.5  ...   volume not working on some internet videos or songs,

    MacBook Air osx 10.7.5  ...   volume not working on some internet videos or songs,  on items used before (3wks ago) it has always worked

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  • Can i find macbook air 11 inch battery life 7 hours ?

    hello apple
    can i find macbook air 11 inch battery life 7 hours ?
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    Well, the battery life for an 11 inch MacBook Air is 5 hours.  The 13 inch Air has a 7 hour life.
    Here's the specification:
    MacBook Air (Mid 2012) - Technical Specifications

  • Don't know how to scan on Macbook Air OSX 10.9.4

    I have recently bought a Macbook Air OSX Version 10.9.4 and am trying to scan a document with several pages using the HP Photosmart C309a series. The printer is connected to my Macbook using a USB cable.
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    Hello coco06x, and welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience!
    I see you are looking into scan options.  I would like to help.
    I would recommend going to Apple Scan and selecting show details.  In the options box on the right, select format, and select PDF.  Under PDF, check the box that says 'combine into single document.'
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    Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you for posting on the HP Forums!
    Please click “Accept as Solution " if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
    Click the “Kudos, Thumbs Up" on the right to say “Thanks" for helping!
    Jamieson
    I work on behalf of HP
    "Remember, I'm pulling for you, we're all in this together!" - Red Green.

  • How can I buy macbook air with students offer

    Plzz tell me how can I buy macbook air in india with students discount

    Hey akshar123,
    Thanks for the question. I found the following information which may help to resolve your question:
    http://www.apple.com/in/buy/
    Where can I buy Apple Products?
    Are discounts available?
    Education
    To get discounts for Education, call Sales on 1800 425 4646 (toll free) or 080 2574 4646, SMS "SALES" to 54646 or email [email protected]
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  • Everytime I start Macbook Air it goes straight to disk utility, First Aid shows HD but when I try and reboot from HD it doesn't show up?

    Hi,
    My Macbook Airs been having trouble the last couple of weeks, it got quite slow and then was taking forever to load. I tried rebooting in Safe Mode and it ran disc and permission repairs and it came back saying everything was ok (however I could still click the repair after when it normally grey's out).
    The other day I turned it on and it went straight to Disc Utility, I ran the repairs again on my Hard drive - still said everything was okay. Went to the Apple menu and tried to startup from disc, but my hard drive doesn't appear - there are no options for me to start up from.
    I also tried re-installing Yosemite from a USB, when I tried this my hard drive did appear with an exclamation mark on it. When I clicked this and tried to re-install it told me there wasn't enough space available? I should also mention that when I was originally doing First Aid I also erased everything to see if that would work so there should be no reason why there's no space!
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    Boot into the recovery partition (COMMAND + R) and see if you can reinstall the OSX from the 4 option menu.
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  • How best to restore Macbook Air (OSX Lion) from backup?

    So, I started up my Macbook Air yesterday and it wouldn't boot. Command-V at boot revealed that the filesystem is currupt; in particular, it hung up on a specific file (/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sqlindex-shm). The problem cannot be fixed by Disk Utility. The harddrive is encrypted with Filevault2.
    Luckily, I have a backup (using CCC), but it is a day old (and that day had some important work and apps installed that I'd prefer not to reinstall). I installed Lion on a USB stick, booted up, and used CCC to clone the whole hard disk to an external USB drive. I could mount, but not write to, the corrupted drive. As expected, it had problems copying the particular corrupted file. So, I copied my day-old backup of the offending file to the external USB drive, and now I can boot my system off that. Yay!
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    2. Install OSX Lion clean. I'd rather not do this, due to the problem of reinstalling apps, redoing cron jobs, etc. But at least this way I minimize the chances that other OS files are corrupt. If I choose this option, how can I minimize the pain of reinstalling apps? What about apps like MacTex and ParagonNTFS, that have files in places other than the Applications folder? Can I just copy those over, too?
    So, which of these routes should I take? Or is there a third route that would be even better? Since I have full backups, it seems like I'm pretty flexible.
    *(I should mention that for speed of backup, I excluded large, relatively expendable files, like VM hard disk files that I can remake, from my regular backups. So restoring from the day-old backup would be some trouble, on top of just restoring the old work.)

    Thanks much, that seems to have worked! 
    (Now just have to figure out why the Time Machine backup didn't contain quite everything we expected; but I can always pop the old hard drive and get the last few things from there is necessary.)

  • Can't register macbook air

    Hi, I just purchased a macbook air through an auction site, it is brand new, fresh out of the box.  My problem is that I cant register my laptop because I don't have the original purchase date.  I wanted to register it so I can purchase the extended warranty.  Any way it can be done without the original purchase date?

    Try starting here.
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  • Do DVD's from a Macbook Air (OSX 10.5) work on an eMac (2005)?

    I purchased a used eMac for my daughter but it did not come with the discs. The previous owner wiped the system and now I need to install the OS to the eMac. I'd prefer installing OSX 10.5 since it will work on the eMac, but want to know if I can use the discs from an older Macbook Air with 10.5 discs for this eMac. Thanks in advance.

    Thank you! I am a native Dallasite but headed north about 27 years ago. I now say I am bilingual--I speak both English and Texan!
    As you are in the US, you can try a long shot action. Get on the phone and call Apple's Store at 1-800-MY-APPLE. Ask to speak to an operating system specialist. Give them the serial number of the computer. You can find the number easily inside the door for the optical drive.
    If they have the software for your model/sub-model on their servers, they can burn you a copy at a nominal charge, usualy around US$16 per disk.
    You can also ask if they have 10.5 available on disk. Some people get the right agent and find they can still get burned copies from Apple. Again, both are long shots.
    Before going much farther, let's deal with the two elephants in the room:
    Elephant #1: Even the fastest eMac (1.42gHz 2005) is going to be a struggle with the modern internet. You will have an old version of Safari that many sites will reject as out of date. The modern internet has abandoned support for the powerPC processor used in all eMacs. You can get a browser, TenFourFox, that keeps the sites from rejecting your browser because it causes the sites to show you are using a recent version of FireFox.  However, it does not support Flash Player so videos are out. And it is slow. I use TenFourFox on an old G4 tower I keep running and, even on our speedy 50MBps cable conecction, many sites run slowly. That said, if you have older games contemporary with eMacs (2002-2005), they will do OK on faster eMacs. Same with productivity programs--Office 2004 runs quite nicely on G4 Macs.
    You will not be able to find much new software that runs on that computer.
    Elephant #2) A very large number of eMacs with USB 2.0 logic boards and 1.0 and 1.25Ghz processors have a fatal logic board fault that is not worth trying to fix, even if you can find someone who claims to be able to do it. See if the serlal number falls in any of these ranges:
    G8412xxxxxx- G8520xxxxxx
    YM412xxxxxx - YM520xxxxxx
    VM440xxxxxx - VM516xxxxxx
    If it does, my recommendation is to stop any action on the computer now and don't throw any money at it.
    So we need to pin down your version (there were four versions in two "families"). Please use this Apple article to find which you have and tell us:
    eMac: How to locate the serial number and identify your model - Apple Support
    Then we can recommend whether to proceed or look for a used Intel Mac--the better choice.

  • Why can't my Macbook Air startup after formatting hard drive?

    Hello fellow apple users,
    I recently decided to restore my macbook air to factory settings.  I held command + R at startup and from there went to disk utilities and formatted the hard drive. I have done this several times in the past. I  restarted my computer before anything else over curiosity (which was a stupid mistake). My computer restarted and nothing happened. Just a blank black screen. The sound from when it turns on was there but nothing else.  I tried literally all of the start up commands but none of those worked.  I tried internet recovery but it could not connect to the internet and it gave me an error saying 2013f.  Does anyone know how i can fix this? I am on a wifi connection with a proxy. Does that have anything to do with it unable to connect?

    Because by formatting the hard drive, you erased the operating system... You need to re-install  OS X.
    You're probably going to have to connect to a different network. The proxy server is probably interfering with your ability to download and re-install.

  • Is there any way to find out if an apple store can replace a macbook air battery whilst you are there before you go there?

    My MacBook Air has come up with the Service Battery warning and isn't holding charge as well as it used to.  I expect the battery needs replacing.
    How do I find out if an applestore can replace it there and then?
    I've been told I need to go online to book a genius appointment, and online the nearest apple store is one that can service macbook air laptops.  However, when I go online and select book genius appointment for mac at this applestore it says "There are no available appointments at this store".
    When I speak to apple on the phone, I am told, it is not possible to tell me on the phone whether apple stores have spare batteries or not for my macbook air.
    On Tuesday I may have time to go to this apple store (Liverpool) without a genius appointment, but not to the next city (Manchester Trafford Centre).  When I look for appointments at the Trafford Centre, the only available slot in the next 7 days is on Friday which I cannot do as I am not in the country.  It is not possible to book further forward.
    So, I really don't want to be going on a wild goose chase trying to find somewhere that can provide and fit a new battery.
    Any suggestions greatly appreciated as to how I can get a new battery fitted for my macbook air as soon as possible.
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    As my macbook air is critical for my work and I used it 7 days a week, I really need to be able to replace on applecare customer service to fix this.  Thanks.

    call them, tell them you NEED a new battery installed, and they need to tell you when they can do it.  That is their job to help you! Give pushback if necessary.

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