Help help - my MacBook Air is in sleep mode and not accept my password
My macbook air is in sleep mode now but i'm not able to open it!!
the password dialogue would not accept any entries. It just beeped away at every key stroke but took nothing.
I have not changed my password!
The box just shakes when I type in the password. it doesn't give me the option to use guest login as I have changed the login setting to single user.
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Macbook spontaneously goes into sleep mode and screen off mode
Hi. My Macbook spontaneously goes into sleep mode and screen off mode with varying time between each instance. It usually goes for a few minutes or even hours without doing it and then will go through periods of fluctuation between the modes. I believe this to have started with a minor orange juice accident rather than it being anything software related.
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DannyWhen you say it goes into sleep mode ...do you mean you actually see the white pulsing light?
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Help! Stuck on white screen after sleep mode and won't start again!
Bought the iMac last week, updated to 10.5.1. Worked well until this morning after I did a security update. Then put it in sleep mode - and basta! After I wanted to work on it again - it didn't restart. So, I had to switch off using power button, but it never started again and always got stuck on the white screen with the Apple logo and the rotating loop. Tried to repair permissions - cannot do it, as it says there is an error. Tried to re-install from DVD the Leopard while archiving the previous information - can't do either - says error. Now trying to re-install it again with an erase option. But this is not a good option, people! This is pretty very much disappointing, Apple!
Can anyone help, please!Boy that is way too bad.
Could you tell us what the error message was?
While sometimes the error messages are not very informative, other times they are. That might be a clue as to what is going on.
When you restart from the DVD you have the option to access Apple's Disk Utility and repair the disk.
You might want to try that, skip repairing permissions at this point.
You can also reset the computer by unplugging all cables including the power cable for at least 15 seconds and then plug in the power cable and keyboard and restart.
You can reset the PRAM by holding down the command-option - p - r keys simultaneously during restart and waiting for the startup chime then releasing those keys after the second chime to allow the start to continue.
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I occasionally have issues waking my macbook pro up from sleep mode resulting in my need to restart the computer. I dislike all of my programs opening at once when I do get the computer started becasue it slows the cpu down. The apple store replaced the sleep part but the problem is still there. Note: i never had this problem with snow leopard
I'm not certain but my new MBA 13...when in sleep mode comes back on from a black screen when I simply click on the left mouse button. Also, one time I did a SECURE EMPTY TRASH on files that totalled more than 1GB and it took so long that the fan kept increasing in speed so I pressed on the POWER button and the MBA shut...I was able to boot up with no problem. As a rule, I now only do secured erases for trash bin data totalling 500mb or less...anything above that gets a regular erase (dump).
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Macbook Air overheating in sleep mode; ManagedClient is the culprit?
When I leave my Air closed and plugged in (sleep mode), sometimes the processor will start overheating (fan kicks in). When I open the computer up, the OS is sluggish, like the processor is getting hammered.
I check Activity Monitor and see that multiple (i.e. dozens) of processes of "ManagedClient" have started and are running simultaneously. Why?
The only solution is to reboot the machine. All the processes go away, the processor cools down, but then when I sleep the machine the process starts over. Please help?I have the same issue since I got OS X 10.9, when I leave my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012, i7, 8 GB) alone for an hour or two, it doesn’t get into sleep mode, when it is plugged in, that happens ONLY if I run it on battery. (I checked the energy settings and it says: sleep after 45 minutes, when plugged. There is no other hardware connected to the MacBook. And I don’t run any sharing services.)
The most annoying thing is, that after leaving it plugged, it is not going to sleep, but starts the fan running high. When that happens, the only way is to force a restart (ctrl+cmd+power button). In some few cases it was possible to log in (very slowly) while fans running high and the activity monitor shows about 15 to 30 ‘ManagedClient’ processes using the whole CPU power. After a restart, there were no ‘ManagedClients’ in the activity monitor and the computer cooled down. - How can that be fixed? -
Hello,
I am struggling to get my macbook air on a longer sleep mode, i have searched through the settings and trying putting the saver onto a longer time, however this does nothing. Now my macbook keeps going to skeep after two minutes and its really quite frustrating, can anyone help me?Go to Apple menu / System Preferences / Energy Saver.
Change the settings for computer sleep and display sleep to what you want them to be.
Next - important step - reset the PRAM.
Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys. -
Locked out of machine after coming out of sleep mode (passwd not accepted)
info macbook (intel) 10.5.1 (was upgraded from Tiger)
single user setup
after waking up machine or coming out of sleep mode (i.e lifting lid) occasionally cannot login at all, password is refused. Multiple failed attempts. Its not a problem of caps lock on.
Only solution is to force power down of machine and then OS comes back up, HOWEVER, without demanding a password after power up (hardly very secure), afterwards it may work OK for a few days (with a number of sleep cycles) before same login problem happens again.
Is this a known problem?Please do both of the following:
1) Turn the computer off. Press and hold shift. Turn the computer on. Continue to hold shift until you see the spinning gear below the Apple logo. Once it is started up, log in. Does it do the same thing here? If it works, please know this is not a fix, just an isolation step.
2) Test this in another user account on the computer. If you don't have one, create one in: Apple menu> System Preferences> Accounts. Click the lock in the lower left corner if it is locked and enter your password. Click the + just above the lock and type in "test" for all the fields it asks for. If you are on 10.4 or earlier, check off "Allow user to administer this computer". If you are on Leopard, make the account type an Administrator. Click "Create account". Click the Apple menu and select the last item ("Log Out" Account name). Log in as the test account and test. Note: You will have to set it to ask you for a password when waking from sleep (Apple> System Prefernces> Security> Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver)
Let me know the result of those tests. Please make sure to try both, as they will allow me to see what may be causing the issue. -
My macbook pro was "asleep". I opened it later, and the screen wouldn't change from black.. The bottom of the laptop is very hot and making a hissing/whirring sound. I tried hitting the power button to turn it off, but the conditions just stayed the same. It doesn't respond to the power button, and the screen just stays black. How do i fix this?!
I will go to the Apple store. I just thought I would throw it out there to see if anyone had a solution. They repaired this macbook before twice. The last time they replaced several things to fix the screen. I just threw out the question to see if someone could save me the trip to the store.
I was curious if the new programs (like lego games) can cause the computer to run to a point to blank the screen.
And curious if there are other things I can try to get the screen up and running. -
My Macbook air no longer shows battery and the light on the connector is not on can someone help me please
i saw that someone had updated to maverick and had the same battery issue and fan issue so I reset the SMC and everything is ok now
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My MacBook Air is stuck in iPhoto and won't let me log out it says it is downloading pics into the library but it is not - can anyone help me escape out of iPhoto?
Apple menu ==> force quit
Post back if you have trouble after quitting and rebooting your MBA
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Hello to you all,
My Macbook Air won's boot up and upon diagnosis, i realized my startup disk is full to 99% even with 2GB Hard Disk space. It wont also enable me boot into safe mode too.
when i power up, i get this prolong gray screen which wont change screen but remain so. Infact i am handicapped.
Please help as all my work documents and project files are on this machine and i can't afford to loose them all...
Please, should you have any solution please send me the details to [email protected]
Thanks you a millionh times.
Al.The MBA seems to cause several problems to several users on boot ups
On start up my MBA would not boot up the apple logo came on but only a blank screen appeared no fan i followed several start up recommendations but to no avail so I took the MBA to the nearest Apple repair centre again the same symptoms on start up ......very sorry sir you need a new mother board that will be $500 not feeling confidant in the product declined and was going to put it on ebay for spares.
On return home I pressed the start up button and it started normally everything was working fine i decided to reinstall all the software what has caused the problem I have no idea but it is after several attempted reboots it finally started on its own so don't give up if you have this problem it may come to life -
Help! My MacBook air has frozen cursor wont move command q does nothing. How do I restart it. I am using my phone to ask for help
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I cannot sync Xerox M138 Printer with my Macbook Air. Printing is paused and does not resume. Please Help.
I FIXED IT MYSELF.
I simply let the iPod run out of battery.
Then it said CONNECT TO POWER.
And then I did.
And after 15 minutes, it worked!
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I'm new to the MAC world. I turned my computer on from 'sleep' mode, and a window was up stating that the IOS disk was full; asked me to force quit, then it just froze. It's been 2 hours. Help! I'm worried about losing photos/videos of my children. Im not sure if there's something special I need to do once I turn it back on; in the meantime, its still on... which I'm afraid the picture on the screen will burn into the screen. Does that happen on iMac's? Thx!
Try a hard reset. ( holding Power til it restarts)
Once to your desktop. Click the Apple icon >> About this mac >> More info>> Storage
Once you see what you have the most of. Try to see what you can delete.
Open up any folder>>all files>> or buy an external to store more data.
Once deleting make sure you empty your trash.
If you are new and its a new computer, you might need to bring it to a store for further assistence.
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