How to reboot if macbook freezes
if my macbook freeze during game play or any other time how do I reboot without having to press the power button for several seconds?
Its not really a good idea to make a habit of shutting down like this as it can cause directory corruption. Its not going to hurt your computer itself, but it could cause problems for your OS. I would get in the habit of running the fsck command after a forced shut down.
Boot holding Command + S keys. Continue holding those keys until you get a black screen with text. Allow that to load and type fsck -yf and hit the return key. When you get the message that "The disk has been repaired" or "The disk appears to be okay" type reboot and hit return.
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Boot into Recovery Partition.
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In answer to your question, have you tried using
Disk Utility?
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Sorry for the delay.
I reset the PRAM, and there was no discernible difference in the computer's behavior with the external monitor.
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