Hot Key to Shut Down

I used the quick shut down by pressing
Control+Option+Command + Eject (Disc) to shut down my MacBook Air 13" and old MacBook Pro 15" (both in Core 2 Duo CPU)
Now,, I have a new MacBook Pro Retina 15". There is no Eject key. Is there any other way for Hot Key to Shut Down? I mean real Hot Key. I do not want more than one press!

Easiest way I found to shut down a mac is to press the power button, which brings up the shutdown, restart dialog window, and then hit the enter key as shutdown is pre-selected. No need for the multiple keypress.

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Lumia 520 Unable find bootable option. Press any Key to shut down

I am facing this error on my Lumia 520 phone it suddenly went blank & a message is popping up "Unable to find bootable option. Press any Key to shut down" Please help what is this issue.

Ok, So even I had a Lumia 520 in India. Got the same error randomly one morning. Tried reflashing using Nokia Software Recovery tool and it doesnt work. So it IS a hardware failure and according to me it a sector of the memory has failed. I went to the
Nokia Care (out of warranty) and the guy there said that it would cost me INR 3600 (~$60). What the hell? I paid 120 for the phone and half the price for the repair? But if you are IN warranty, then you are lucky. Just send it to Nokia and they will fix it
for free. It is a hardware failure and you can do literally nothing at home. Just try the Nokia Software Recovery tool once, though it is a big download of 1.5GB

My 822 now says, "ERROR: Unable to find bootable option. Press any key to shut down." Just happened after my phone froze. Everything I've searched says to replace the phone. I have no phone in or out, no alarm....what is going on with this? I see others

My 822 now says, "ERROR: Unable to find bootable option. Press any key to shut down." Just happened after my phone froze. Everything I've searched says to replace the phone. I have no phone in or out, no alarm....what is going on with this? I see others have the same problem.

Just got the same error message today. My phone went to the black screen of death with the error message at the top. Contacted Verizon via chat. Was online for 1 hour and 15 minutes only to find out that nothing could be done which I could have told them based upon what I had read on this site. Of course my phone is out of warranty since I have had it for 1 1/2 years and I am not eligible for an upgrade. How convenient! I was told to contact Nokia which I did and they gave me a download to try to reset everything. It looked like it was working but after almost 3 hours it got to the end and nothing happened. It just froze even though it said it was done. I rebooted the phone and am back at the same black screen of death. Guess I have to buy a used phone and then will have to reconsider whether or not to stay with Verizon going forward. I have not had any issues with the phone in the past - keep it in an otter box, never dropped, never got wet, etc. But all of a sudden it goes haywire like this that seems like either a hardware or software problem but something completely out of my control and all I get is sorry, you're out of warranty!

My phone doesnt hold it's charge and runs hot even when shut down. what can i do to fix.

My pone will not hold it's charge as long as it should and runs hot even when shut down.

Shutdown all apps that may be running in the background by double clicking the home button, touch and hold an app until they all start to jiggle, then one at a a time dismiss each. Then turn off all services you don't need, such as Bluetooth if you don't use it.
Fully charge and see how the iPhone works, does it retain charge, run at a normal temp? If it still is hot, etc., take it to an Apple store genius bar for testing by the techs.

A305-S6845 Running Way Too Hot and Shutting Down

Greetings! Has anyone else had a problem with a Toshiba Satellite running so hot that it shuts down all by itself at least once per day? That is what mine is doing. The fan seems to be running fine and there is no dust or anything like that in the way.
How can I cool this thing down? Around 60 minutes after startup, it is so hot that it is uncomfortable on my palms to use it. It will normally run super hot like that for several hours and then shut down automatically, presumably to keep itself from melting or something.
Thanks in advance!

mack247 wrote:
Greetings! Has anyone else had a problem with a Toshiba Satellite running so hot that it shuts down all by itself at least once per day? That is what mine is doing. The fan seems to be running fine and there is no dust or anything like that in the way.
How can I cool this thing down? Around 60 minutes after startup, it is so hot that it is uncomfortable on my palms to use it. It will normally run super hot like that for several hours and then shut down automatically, presumably to keep itself from melting or something.
Thanks in advance!
Could be hair and lint in the processor heatsink or perhaps the thermal compound between the heatsink and processor has dried out.
Have it serviced by a competent shop. If you are feeling brave, DIY following the instructions here:
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-A305/laptop-disassembly-process-1.htm

My MacBook Pro 13'' shuts down randomly while connected to the power cord.

Alright, so my Mac is shutting down while being connected to the power cord. Though, when I unplugged it, it runs just fine.
I've read up on the other random shut downs but they seem to be different in my case. I was only surfing youtuve on Firefox, granted I had a few other tabs open but they weren't doing anything that would run the computer hot, and it shut down out of no where. The battery was full and it was still connected to my power cable. The screen went blank and the computer was completely off. I noticed that the light on the plug in wasn't on and switch the outlet that the computer was plugged into and replugged it into my computer. The light came on and after about three or so times of pressing the power on button it came back to life. Though, it stayed on the start up, white apple page and just spun. After a while it looked as if it was about to go to my password page but it shut down after gently moving the computer. The power cable light went off once again. I unplugged it and replugged it into my computer but the light would not come back on. After just removing the cord and pushing the button a few times my computer came back to life and I logged in as normal except for the fact that after it came back on the date and time was reset and several applications needed permissions. It also randomly logged me out of my Facetime account as well.
All in all I was wondering if anyone else had a similar problem and know what's going on or if this is new. Could it be some kind of spark in the power cable from a broken wire that made my computer shut down or is it something attacking my computer?

Please make a Genius Appointment and take it in for service.

Computer Freezes and Hard Drive goes bad on shut down and re-start

I have MacBooks running Leopard. We have had several so far this school year where it has frozen on the user. The user holds down the power key to shut-down and re-start. On re-start, either it just gets to the solid gray screen or it might show the folder with the question mark. When I boot it up from an install disk and run disk utility...I try to repair the hard drive which often fails, the drive is grayed out, and I try to re-partition which also fails. I then send them in for AppleCare who has replaced the hard drives. I have about 2-3 a week so far and I'm curious why this is happening. We got the laptops in March so they are relatively new. Is it the shut down process? Remedies to help prevent the freeze up (I'm guessing the kids have too many apps running at one time)? other thoughts?

I'm not sure but have you tried getting them to shutdown through the apple menu instead of the power button?

Imac shuts down without any error message

imac shuts down without any error message

Need more details. Which iMac? Which OS? When does it shut down, under what circumstances? What are you doing when it happens? Is it reproducible, i.e. can you make it happen? Does it appear to be getting very hot before it shuts down?
Open Console in Applications>Utilities and navigate to system.log. Do you see any messages related to shutdown from the time when this has happened? Enter "shutdown" in the filter field, upper right corner.

Randomly shuts down while asleep

My dual G5 randomly shuts down at night for no apparent reason. I have reset the power management, but it still continues. It might go a week without shutting down at night, or maybe every few days. ONe interesting thing, I have Quickeys installed, but not open, yet the F4 key set to "sleep" functions without Quickeys being open? I have not set any key to shut down.
Any suggestions as to where to look would be appreciate.

I have the same problem. My quad G5 will shut down when asleep. There is nothing about this in the log. One log suddenly stops and then there is the log of the startup. Here is a part of the log from the last occurrence:
Aug 14 17:12:32 GerrysQuadG5 ARDAgent [238]: UDPWritePacket error 65 No route to host for -64.168.1.2
Aug 14 18:38:26 GerrysQuadG5 authexec: executing /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/Current/Support/LaunchCFMA pp
(System Dies)
Aug 14 19:40:12 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Aug 14 19:40:09 localhost mDNSResponder-108.6 (Jul 19 2007 10: 40:20)[69]: starting
Aug 14 19:40:13 localhost kernel[0]: vmpagebootstrap: 1138724 free pages
Aug 14 19:40:13 localhost kernel[0]: migtable_maxdispl = 70
Aug 14 19:40:13 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Aug 14 19:40:09 localhost memberd[78]: memberd starting up
Aug 14 19:40:13 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Aug 14 19:40:12 localhost lookupd[81]: lookupd (version 369.5) starting - Tue Aug 14 19:40:12 2007
Aug 14 19:40:13 localhost kernel[0]: using 8192 buffer headers and 4096
I am not using Quickeys

MBP will not shut down, also F keys etc. not working. Help?

Hello, must preface that I am not a very computer-savvy person, so please explain as if to a four-year old.
My MBP is about 4 years old, but has been working great all that time. Suddenly, a problem.
I realized that most of my F keys have ceased working, such as turning on the backlit keyboard, adjusting screen brightness, and adjusting volume. I thought a restart would fix it, but my machine will not restart or shut down. I click to request it, but nothing happens. I also try to view "about this mac" from the apple-icon menu (wanted to provide that info for this entry), but the spinning beach ball of doom appears for a moment, then vanishes, and the panel with the info does not open. Also, some of my hot corners have stopped working. Otherwise, it works fine. All my software works, and no sudden crashes.
I haven't installed any new software recently, or done anything out of the ordinary to the MBP, for a few months at least.
I haven't forcequitted the machine, tried to start in safe mode, or started while pushing command, R, P, option, or anything else. I did clear the caches and ran disk utility to repair permissions... then saw another post online saying I *shouldn't* do that stuff. Doh.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this? Obviously, the machine is out of warranty, I do have the disks that came with the machine, and I run time machine regularly...but I'd rather not have to do a fresh reinstall of everything, if it can be avoided.
Any help would be much appreciated.

"I haven't forcequitted the machine, tried to start in safe mode, or started while pushing command, R, P, option, or anything else."
do command-option-p-r
if that does't do it reset the smc.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Power Supply Temperatures Running Hot! Mac Pro shuts down.

Hello,
First I will give machine/hardware specs of interest:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (pre 2009)
8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 (running 2 displays)
Apple RAID Card/Controller
SMC Version: 1.25f4
*venting dimensions around computer: top=18", left side=3", right side=3" and back=18".
Software of interest currently running:
OS X 10.5.8
iStat Menu
SMC Fan Control
My machine has been shutting down spontaneously and I suspect either CPU or power supply overheating. In the 5 instances this has occurred, the room was very warm (AC was not on) and I was running HandBrake with CPU at full and an iStat reading of 145 F. Ambient was 77 F and I was not reading power supply temps at the time. I figured for sure this must be a CPU overheating issue. However, just a few hours ago I had another shutdown. The room was warm again but I was not running Handbrake, but StarCraft II. I have played a lot of Starcraft II with no problems until tonight.
I decided, this time, to check the temps on my power supplies. Power supply 1 = 147 F, and #2 is at 178 F. After many hours of searching forums I have concluded that these are crazy hot temps! I immediately installed SMC Fan Control to attempt to increase the fan speeds. I was successful in increasing all fans except the power supply (stuck at 599rpm). I have now turned the AC on in the house and the Ambient is down to 70, PS #1 145 and PS #2 169. All of these temps are a result of and idle machine running a browser.
The following may or may not be an issue, however, leave no stone unturned. I currently have 12 external devices running on USB. 4 WD passport drives, 1 DVD writer, 5 WD powered drives plus the keyboard and mouse. Also, the Mac Pro is plugged into a small UPS.
In all my forum searches, I just can't seem to answer some basic questions:
1. Can an overheated power supply shut the system down?
2. What are optimal (normal) running temps for Mac Pro's? (everyone seems to have opinions, but there doesn't appear to be a technical specification anywhere).
3. I thought the fans, especially CPU fans, were supposed to kick in when the heat rises. Why are mine staying at minimal rpm's?
Finally, does it look like I need new power supplies? Fans?
This machine was put into service in March of 2008 and has done very intensive rendering for the film industry...long nights...rendering for days sometimes. It has been retired for over a year now and is used at a lesser degree.
Thanks for reading this long post! I appreciate any input you can provide!
Other iStat reading of interest:
Power Supply 1 voltage = 12.28 V
Power Supply 1 current = 26.44 A
Power Supply 1 power = 316.75 W

Also, the Mac Pro is plugged into a small UPS.
Put your peripherals on that.
Don't share the same circuit for A/C as the Mac Pro, and put the Mac on 1300VA UPS at least.
As for all those external drives.... I'd consolidate into a good SATA case or two.
And yes in summer run with 3 of the fans up around 900 rpm.

Today I tried to shutdown my computer and a window popped up saying that my computer could not shut down because the mail application was open, it wouldn't close, so I used a key combination to force mail to quit and now I can't log in. Help?

Okay, so I have been having trouble with my mail application all week. The window refused to open and would not quit. Today, I tried to shut down my mac and a pop up window told me that I was unable to shutdown because mail was open. After using a key combination, I successfully was able to quit mail with force quit. Then I was able to shut down with out a problem. However, upon rebooting, my computer refused to let me loggin. I put in my password correctly but then the rainbow pinwheel showed up and stalled for a minute and then my screen flashed and the gray screen reappeared, expecting a password. I tried turning it off and back on again with no luck. I also reset my password after reading a similar discussion, but I still can't log in. How can I fix this?

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My iPhone 5s with iOS 7.1 become very hot when charged almost reach 100% and will shut down itself.

My iPhone 5s with iOS 7.1 become very hot when charged almost reach 100 % and will shut down itself. Then I need to off the power and let it cool down first before I can on the phone back. Please help me to solve this problem. Thanks.

Hi Limfromsi,
It is normal to an extent for the iPhone to get warm during charging. If your iPhone is currently in a case, you may want to try charging it without one and see if the issue occurs, as the design of the iPhone uses the exterior of the device as a cooling surface. For more information about iPhones and temperature, you may find the following article helpful:
iOS devices: Keeping device within acceptable operating temperatures
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2101
If you continue to have issues with your iPhone in the default config (no case, using the included original cable and power adapter), you may want to have your phone evaluated for service. The following page may be of use:
Service Answer Center - iPhone
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=United_States&product=ipho ne
Regards,
- Brenden

Why can't I shut down my MacBook unless I hold down the power key?

Hi all,
I have had this problem my MacBook Pro using both Leopard and Jaguar. It is a problem when I shut down using either the drop down menu or by the power key menu. It appears to shut down but when I close the lid the "sleep" light comes on and is steady. It isn't actually shutting down because if I don't have the power charger plugged in it will run out of charge.
So, to shut down, I hold the power key down for about 10 seconds.
If it does fall asleep I am unable to awaken it (the sleep light is steady) and have to go through the holding down the power key procedure to shut it down and then use the power key to start it back up.
Am I damaging it by doing this? I have tried the trouble shooting options as described in the manual. I had this problem before and one day it just wouldn't turn on and I had the hard drive replaced.
Thank-you very much for any help!
Becky Bell
Sydney AUS
Model Name: MacBook Pro 17"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,2
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP12.0061.B03
SMC Version: 1.5f10
Serial Number: SystemSerialNumb
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

I have found a solution on another thread that seems to have solved the problem for me. That is, I haven't experienced since, either the double password prompt at wake from sleep or the issue of not being able to shutdown.
The solution requires deleting a preference file that apparently carried over from Tiger in the upgrade to Leopard and which is causing all the problems described. Preference files or .plist files hold configuration preferences and settings generally defined by the user for a particular operating system function. Deleting one of these files will result in the system recreating it on reboot with all settings set to default values, this is a simple way of fixing an incompatible/corrupt preference file.
WARNING: Deleting preference files will reset all configurations for that files associated function. Custom user settings made in the +system preferences>Hardware>Energy Saver+ preference panel will have to be re-configured by the user.
*_Step 1:_* Delete .plist files
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist (may not be necessary, holds schedule details for the Energy Saver preferences)
*_Step 2:_* Reset Parameter RAM
+Resetting PRAM and NVRAM+
1. +Shut down the computer.+
2. +Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.+
3. +Turn on the computer.+
4. +Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.+
5. +Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.+
6. +Release the keys.+

My iPhone 4 was run over at work worked fine for 5 days then got really hot and shut down. I can not get it to power back up. I have photos that were not backed up is there anyway that I can retrieve my photos from the phone?

MY iPhone 4 was run over at work by a forklift the screen was badly cracked but other than that worked fine for 6 days. Then it got really hot while charging and shut down and will not power back up. I have photos on this phone that we're not backed up to I cloud is there any way to retrieve my photos from this phone?

No. You probably should have backed it up while it was working during those 6 days...

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