How do I troubleshoot start up problem?
Hi there, I received a MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012 as a gift in 2012. It has 4 gb of ram and 500 gb hard drive. last week, it stopped working. it would not let me get to the desktop. I have tried resetting the ram, repair permissions and repair disk. Repair disk didn't go all the way through. I tried to recover from the time machine back up, that didn't work. Tried reinstalling, os x From the recover partition. That also failed. Any other ideas that you would be able to suggest to me? It's out of the warranty period. I suspect that it might be a hard disk failure, but if you think it might be something else, I'll be open to hear it
" Repair disk didn't go all the way through"
So as John says, probably a hard drive failure.
If you plan on using this machine regularly I'd suggest putting in an SSD from OWC, whom I also recommend:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_6G/
bump the RAM to 8 GB at least. Go back to Mavericks if you can.
I've done it to 5 machines so far. Earliest so far; 2009 MacBook Unibody.
Started w/ this early 2011 MBP 13"; 120 GB SSD and bumped the RAM to 8 GB.
Running Mavericks 10.9.5.
Photoshop CS 6 starts up in 3.4 seconds.
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User Tips: Kernel Panics
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Boot up from your Tiger or Leopard Install DVD while holding down the "c" key.
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How much HD space is left on the iMac?
How much RAM is installed?
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the group known as a 'kernel panic' and so that may be due
to either (or both) software and/or hardware.
Sometimes, there is a software conflict; so if something was
added to the system which makes a conflict, there is a chance
that a kernel panic may result; however slim that would be.
And if something in one of the folders you can see on the
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moved, modified, or somehow otherwise changed from
their original content, character or quality: a kernel panic.
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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
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new system folder and upgrading it. There is a reason for this
issue; so something must have been changed in the system.
PS: And if nothing else, the issue may not be directly related to
the 'kernel panic' so you could try reading among these related
results from a search I just did on the "dreaded white screen..."
• ' iMac white screen at startup ' - google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=imacwhite+screen+at+startup&aq=2&oq=iMac+white+screen
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