IMovie - Black Screen - Scrambled Boot Screen - Mac not booting: I got it somehow fixed

Hi there,
I am not sure if its a Mavericks issue, but I think I should report somewhere about it:
I have a Early 2011 MacBook Pro and upgraded it yesterday to Mavericks. I played a bit around with the new iMovie today, and suddendly the display turned black. I did a hard reset and encountered a scambled boot screen. I saw the Apple logo with wired grey lines. And the Mac didn't boot. I tried everyting: Reset PRAM/NVRAM and all other magic tricks out there. Diagnostics was not booting, the same as the Recovery system. I even tried to boot Windows7 from the bootcamp partition, but only got saw a half windows logo totally pixeled. I also tried to connect an external Display: nothing working.
For me, the diagnostics was clear: ****, the logics board was fried. Especially the graphics gard.
But something was strange for me: My machine was running smooth for 2 1/2 years, and 1 day after installating Mavericks it kills itself? ***?
And guess what: After the 1001st attempt to boot, playing around with all available boot shortcuts, I just noticed the boot screen looked okay again. And the machine booted. The last thing I was doing was doing verbose boot (holding shift, then holding shift+v).
I have no idea what happened, but I am happy its back to normal. And I hope it will not happen again in a few minutes. If so, I will report. If not, be happy to find something when you google for it. And if you work for Apple, please tell me what the **** happened and fix it. I am scared now to ever start iMovie again.

Could be your monitor power supply is going. could also be 10.6.6 so first try to get back to a OSX which did not give you problems.

Similar Messages

  • I have lost my cd's and screen became gray i can not boot what should i do?

    Hi all
    i have lost my cd's and screen became gray i can not boot what should i do?
    i have tried to reset Vram
    tried to run safe boot
    but nothing happends
    i have a macbook pro core 2 duo 2GB ram 160 gb hard disk

    Use the computer your on now to download and burn a ISO of PartedMagic to a cd.
    In Windows 7 you can right click on the downloaded ISO and click burn to disk, other Windows versions use the free ImgBurn software.
    In OS X you can burn the ISO using Disk Utility.
    Hook up a external drive to the target Mac.
    Stick the PartedMagic disk into the Mac and reboot holding option and c keys (I forget which one works)
    Use the first option (default) to load PartedMagic into memory (watch out the disk will eject!)
    Once in PartedMagic there is a Mount Drive icon on the right, doubleclick it twice to open two windows (three total) you can now transfer your files after mounting the disks/partitions using the two open file windows.
    Unmount the drives before using the "Start" like menu in the lower left corner to quit PartedMagic.
    If your Mac works with all this then your in good shape, you just have a hosed operating system and a $29 Snow Leopard install disk (c boot off of it) and a Disk Utility Erase (with Zero Erase preferred) and a reinstall of OSX Snow leopard will do the trick.
    If your computer boots off the PartedMagic cd, but you can't find/access the internal drive, then your boot drive is dead and you need to replace it or have someone replace it for you.
    If your computer doesn't boot off the PartedMagic cd, then it's likely a serious hardware issue.

  • I upgraded my iPhone 4 to ios 7.4 and the screen stopped working i can not use the phone How to fix it ?.

    I upgraded my iPhone 4 to ios 7.4 and the screen stopped working i can not use the phone How to fix it ?.

    Hold the HOME and SLEEP buttons at the same time until an Apple logo appears. If nothing has happened after holding for 30 seconds charge the phone for 15 minutes with the wall adapter and try again.

  • IMovie for my iPad and iPhone will not export movies how do I fix this?

    iMovie for my iPad and iPhone will not export movies how do I fix this?

    Same here. Have exported a handful of movies before..faced this issue for the first time a few days ago. What footage are you trying to edit and export? (E.g. Shot with camera app, other social media apps like Snapchat, Vine, Instagram?)
    I did some troubleshooting..
    I was putting together all saved videos from Snapchat.. no luck. Export screen comes up, but progress bar doesn't move.
    Mixed some footage in there shot with actual iPhone camera app.. no luck.
    Removed all Snapchat footage.. it worked straight away.
    BUT ... it would make sense if I didn't just compile a bunch of Snapchat vids a few weeks ago and export them just fine?
    So it's something to do with the actual footage I assume?

  • Pavilion g7 laptop screen flashes colors and will not boot

    When I power up my laptop,  the screen flashes different colors and will not boot up

    The service manual is for the G7 series notebook and is not exclusive to the g7-1368dx model. Different models within the G7 family uses different hardware and supports different hardware upgrade paths. This means that an item listed in the service manual is not necessarily supported for every model in the G7 family.
    Is the notebook's product number A7A46UA?
    If so, the motherboard this unit came with is the 649948-001 as listed in the service guide. All the parts for this unit can be found here.
    I searched HP PartSurfer for the part number 669690-001, the A8 processor, and expanded the note at the bottom of the result page to see what units came with this processors. I reviewed three different models and each had the motherboard 649950-001.
    The units that shipped with the A8 processor had a different motherboard than what the units that shipped with the A6 processor.
    Due to A8 units having a different motherboard than the A6 units, I suspect that the motherboard your unit has does not actually support the A8 processor. Sorry.
    ↙-----------How do I give Kudos?| How do I mark a post as Solved? ----------------↓

  • HT4840 Boot camp does not boot to Windows 7 disk after completing disk partition - white blank screen

    After completing the partitionning of the hard disk, the iMac reboots but nothing happens. The system does not boot from the Windows 7 disk.
    A blank screen appears and that's all.
    I have tried to manually boot from the disk by pressing the <Alt> kei will restarting the iMac. The system display the option of booting from the iMac hard disk or the Windows 7 disk. Seelcting the Windows 7 option does noting.
    Thanks in helping me find a solution to my boot problem.
    Danarc54

    Are using a 64 bit version or a 32 bit version of Windows?
    I'm not up on the iMacs but according to this article you may not be able to use 64bit Windows.

  • Flat Screen imac iMac won't boot up, will not boot from DVD

    My 24" imac flat screen will not boot. I only get a blank gray/white screen. Reset the PRAM and tried to boot from the DVD. I held the C key down when I powered on but the system will not boot from the DVD. If I wait long enough, the DVD will eventually be ejected. I have had HD issues and Disk Warrior indicated that the drive was damaged. Will a dead hard drive cause the system to not boot from the DVD? Is there any way to get the system to boot from my DVD?

    Hello PMcDer,
    Welcome to Apple Discussions!
    By what you are describing you're correct in believing your drive is probably gone. The sad news... if Disk utility can no longer see the drive, your ability to retrieve any data off of it is getting slim.
    There are a couple of options for data retrieval.
    1. If you still have Apple Care have them fix it. But make sure they know that you do not have a backup.
    2. If you do not have Apple Care, have an Authorized Apple Tech replace the drive and make sure that they will give you back the old drive. This may prove to be a challenge. Or you can replace the drive yourself. It is not easy for some but take your time and you'll have no problems. Lots of youtube videos on this as well as on-line tutorials.
    3. You could try a Hard Disk Utility program like Disk Warrior to see if it can help, but it's not free.
    4. You could pay someone big bucks for Data recovery in order to get the data of the drive for you.
    If you decided to do the HDD swap yourself. You could purchase a 3.5" firewire enclosure that you could put your old drive into once you do the swap. Plug it into the iMac and prey that it recognizes it. Then "MAYBE" you could copy the data over to the new drive, but that is a stretch.

  • Hard Drive Full - After Reboot, Will Not Boot to Mac OS - Boot Camp OK Tho?

    Hello all,
    I having a severe issue with my 2007 Macbook Pro 2.33 w/10.6.xx (I believe I'm up to 10.6.2). Yesterday I was on the net in Firefox and got a message from the OS that my hard drive was full and that I had to kill some running apps to recover needed virtual memory. I killed everything but Firefox, finished my web-based game and shut down. The next time I attempted to start the computer, it would not go past the "gray screen with Apple logo and spinning wheel". In fact, if I hold the option key at startup, I can see my Windows Boot Camp partition, any bootable CD/DVD I might have in the drive and "EFI Boot" only. I cannot see Macintosh HD as option.
    Here is a list of things I have done/tried:
    1. The day before yesterday, Mac OS (10.6.xxx) informed me on my 2007 15" 2.33 MBP that it was out of HDD space and I needed to kill some apps to recover virtual memory.
    2. I force killed everything but FF since I was in a game of Settlers on Asobrain at the time!
    3. The computer ran fine for the rest of the session.
    4. When I rebooted, all I could get was gray screen and spinning wheel.
    5. I forced shut down, tried again, same thing.
    6. I tried resetting PRAM with Ctrl-Cmd-P-R at startup, same thing.
    7. I tried booting to safe mode. I got past login but it never loaded anything but the default background wallpaper. I shutdown.
    8. I booted from the Snow Leopard DVD and ran disk verify, then disk repair but it could not be completed as the drive has been "corrupted".
    9. At this point all I get upon startup now is Gray screen w/ Apple, then spinning wheel with progress bar that never goes anywhere then it shuts itself down.
    10. When I start the computer in Target Disk Mode (TDM), only my Boot Camp partition will mount, not my Mac HD
    11. *I do have boot camp installed, with XP Pro, and it will boot without a problem. In fact, I have HFSExplorer (a free utility f . or reading HFS volumes while in Windows) installed on the Windows side and I can see/browse folders on the Mac partition, so on the fact alone that I can boot to windows I know I don't have a HDD failure.
    12. I have also tried booting to Single User mode which worked, I got the prompt. I tried using the "fsck -fy" command and it could not repair the volume.
    13. I have tried creating an image of the Macintosh HD while in Disk Utility booted from the Mac Install DVD, but I get an "i/o error".
    Please help! Any good suggestions, help, etc. is much appreciated! -Kyler

    Hello and welcome to the discussions. All OS X drives need to keep 10-15% free space. If you were operating with less that that capacity, it is quite possible that some files were overwritten. Thus corrupted. The only thing that I could suggest is to try to copy your drive to an external HD or another Mac (Space permitting) Then reinstall using the install disc. You will then have to physically copy files from the external to your new install.
    How large was your HD and how much free space does it have? You can use the install disc and Disk Utility to find out.
    Cheers,
    Glynn

  • Mac not booting/running slow as molasses

    Alright. This is going to be a large and multi-scope question, so please bear with me, everyone.
    Here are the (general) specifications of my MBP:
    Mid-2012 15.4" MacBook Pro
    500GB HDD, 4GB of RAM (I believe)
    OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
    Now, for the questions. The two are chronologically related; I believe also in other ways related as well. In order of what happened:
    1. My machine (what I'm typing on now; I'll get to that later) has been running slow as molasses for the past few days. We're not talking 'not as fast as when I bought it' slow, we're talking 'slow as a fully-loaded mule going uphill' slow. Things started to occur the other day, when, for the second time in this computer's existence, it was dropped. You don't need to educate me on why I shouldn't drop a computer; I know what can occur and I've accidentally dropped many other devices before, and had to suffer the consequences. The first occasion was when a friend of mine as using the machine and dropped it while walking with it. The screen was spiderwebbed (LCD fine; display glass has spiderweb cracks across it), but other than that, no real issues. The second time, about a week ago, was when it slipped off my lap onto a tile floor (not that laminate stuff, the hard grouted tile). It was in a case and the display glass only suffers minor advancement of damage (barely noticeable...still like that...as a student and working to support myself as a programmer, I can neither afford monetarily nor the downtime of having the computer sent to Apple for repair, especially for something that doesn't affect the functionality of the machine).
    The next part isn't necessary to the problem description, but bears saying - I am not a novice shouting 'my computer is slow, plz help' without any description; but I am not the best user on the face of the earth. Most of my experience in my life has been on the Windows platform; the OS X operating system handles similarly enough in terms of general functions but has enough internal difference (I know this is a major understatement - they are two fundamentally different OSs) to still cause me problems when trying to perform maintenance or "power-user" tasks.
    Now, back to the actual problem, the computer immediately turned off, which I found to be immediately suspicious. Upon rebooting, the computer successfully turns on and functions without issue, but is as the title and first few sentences describe, is slow as all ****. I have recently done two things to this computer (major things) which I feel could contribute to the issue, namely:
    Partitioned the HDD to install Fedora 19 - I'm in the process of working on an open-source project involving an IBM SDK which requires Fedora - as I live during the week in the Bay Area and commute to and from home, I only have intermittent access to a desktop which I would otherwise use for it. The computer's speed of operating didn't seem to bat an eye at this process.
    Installed two things, namely the upgrade to OS X 10.9 and Photoshop CS6, which I use to generate the GUIs for my applications (iOS development primarily).
    Both of these didn't cause any issues with the speed, but after the drop, this thing handles like it has Alzheimer's. Now, I know that dropping the computer isn't a good thing; if anyone can elucidate me further to how such a thing could be detrimental I'll be the first (and only one) accepting full responsibility for it. Mostly though, it's just been an annoyance of little enough significance in terms of productivity that I could still work without it.
    Which brings me to point number two:
    So, in an effort to generally bring up the speed, I noticed that Fedora had created two partitions, one called 'disk0s5' or something of the like, and one called 'untitled', taking up about 30GB. I know that space can be an issue due to operating systems handling by copying data around, shuffling it, etc. but as I still have over 400GB free, I only did this as a test.
    I removed the partitions (did not touch the one titled Macintosh HD...we all know what that leads to) and rebooted, which brings me to present time & day.
    Might as well list this to establish a chronology:
    I start the restart process, and head to the bathroom in the meantime.
    I hear the startup chime.
    Upon returning, the computer is off, so I know something is up, but I manually boot it to see what.
    Upon the white initial boot screen, it loads a progress bar, much like the Mavericks install.
    The typical spinning throbber loads and the load bar progresses to about a tenth (takes 15-20 seconds) and the computer shuts off.
    Now, for me, this is bad mojo. I haven't done a full system backup on this machine (I know it's bad form, no need to educate me on this, call it the 'not wearing a seatbelt' for computing), but I know that ideally, the partition should be intact, so I intend to clone the drive to an image and back it to disk or portable HDD before reinstalling 10.9 or sending in to Apple.
    For the obvious... I am on the computer and it isn't booting as of now, but I was able to get into the recovery partition via option-boot and use Safari.
    Please advise. Again, I'm not a novice, but Mac OS X isn't my primary forte so you will need to break things down somewhat for me. I will provide anyone with more information upon request, if need be, limited to what I can access in the partition.
    Thanks in advance,
    Eli Fedele

    Boot from an external system disk:
    Format the external disk Mac OS Extended (journaled) running Disk Utility form the Recovery Partition.
    (Boot then hold down Command and R simultaneously).
    Install OS X onto that external disk.
    Boot from that external disk (Boot then hold down Option).
    Using the Finder drag as many folders as you can to the external disk.
    As a last-ditch effort you can use recovery software to recover files the Finder will not copy.
    DiskWarrior:  http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/
    uFlysoft          http://www.uflysoft.com/
    McAfee Data Recovery for Mac:  http://mcaf.ee/x0pfi

  • G5 dual 2.0 GHz mac not booting frequently

    Hello,
    Our G5 Dual 2.0 GHz mac is not booting up every few times we try it- just hangs on the grey apple screen- then after about an hour of trying to reboot, etc, it comes up and works fine for a couple of days. Sometimes when this happens, the administrator prompt comes up on the screen (not supposed to), sometimes it only comes back after I force open the Cd drive, boot from Disk Utility, and run disk repair (though it comes back saying no repairs necessary...). I have recently run disk utility and disk warrior, and both say the HDs are fine and need no repair; however, this is potentially a huge problem and I can't seem to isolate it.
    We also often get a "whirring" noise coming in and out... What else should I try? Not sure whether this is a hard drive or OS issue but it's scary. I do have a cloned FW drive. Any ideas are greatly appreciated-

    Hi - this is a very good point and I've thought the same thing - so today I opened up the machine and used canned air to clean it out. It's been running fine all day, that's the problem - no real pattern to go on, just two days in the last couple of weeks it wouldn't boot for an hour, then was fine. I don't want to go through reinstalling the OS and Logic but, more inportantly, all the tons of 3rd party plugs we have (and who knows if they work once you reinstall...always a gamble), but I certainly don't want the machine to fail obviously...all DU, DW, etc signs say it's fine, and it's performing normally. We plan to get a new computer in a couple of months anyway once our other software becomes UB, so...it's a toss-up about what to do with this one for now.
    One weird thing though is that my backup ("bootable") clone drive will not actually boot - all the files are backed up there and can be copied, but I can actually boot from the drive...so I got a new FW drive and using Retrospect again, used the duplicate function to copy exactly everything from my internal HD...once again, all the files are there and can be copied, but the drive isn't bootable...thoughts??
    Thank you all for your help-

  • Mac not booting normally after running '/sbin/fsck -fy' in Single user mode

    HI, I tried to log in to single user mode and run the '/sbin/fsck -fy' command. This command failed. So I rebooted my Macbook pro by 'reboot' command. On bootup I hear the chime shoud and can see the Mac Symbol but never reach the login prompt. The round circle keeps rotating over the gray screen and nothing happens.
    Then I again hard rebooted mac book and entered single user mode. I ran again '/sbin/fsck -fy' many times and after many attempts the command stuck and never returned.
    Then I tried using the recovery method to reinstall MAC OS X. It asked me to choose the Harddrive where to install MAC OSX. But the option of "macintosh HD" was disabled and message was " hard drive locked".
    Please help me how to boot my MAC normally :'(

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
    Boot in Recovery again and open Disk Utility. Then, choose "Macintosh HD" in the sidebar and repair the hard drive. If it is repaired, restart and OS X should start correctly. If not, you will probably have to format the hard disk.
    You only have to use that command when you have problems with the Mac OS X volume filesystem that they couldn't be repaired with Disk Utility, and as this command got stuck, probably damaged the OS X volume filesystem

  • Sunfire 480R + boot command does not boot from disk

    Hi All,
    I'm trying to work out why when I type ok>boot
    the server keeps booting off the network. It's almost as it does not find any disks and then since diag-device is set to net it tries that instead. The same happens even if I do an init 6 or reboot from solaris??
    the output from eeprom looks like:
    # eeprom
    test-args: data not available.
    diag-passes=1
    local-mac-address?=false
    silent-mode?=false
    scsi-initiator-id=7
    oem-logo: data not available.
    oem-logo?=false
    oem-banner: data not available.
    oem-banner?=false
    ansi-terminal?=true
    screen-#columns=80
    screen-#rows=34
    ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
    ttya-ignore-cd=true
    ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
    output-device=ttya
    input-device=ttya
    auto-boot-on-error?=false
    load-base=16384
    auto-boot?=true
    boot-command=boot disk
    diag-file: data not available.
    diag-device=net
    boot-file: data not available.
    boot-device=/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w500000e010f124c1,0:a rootmirro
    r disk net
    use-nvramrc?=true
    nvramrc=devalias rootmirror /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w500000e010f232
    61,0:a
    security-mode=none
    security-password: data not available.
    security-#badlogins=0
    fcode-debug?=false
    diag-out-console=false
    post-trigger=error-reset power-on-reset
    diag-script=normal
    diag-level=min
    diag-switch?=false
    obdiag-trigger=error-reset power-on-reset
    error-reset-recovery=boot

    Hello,
    Sun Fire 480R ?
    Maybe Fire v480 ?
    This is device path for the two internal disks (per InfoDoc 21216):
    Disk 1 /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0
    Disk 2 /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@1,0
    These are your current settings in the OBP
    boot-device=/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w500000e010f124c1,0:a rootmirror disk net
    nvramrc=devalias rootmirror /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w500000e010f23261,0:a
    Both point the the same first slot (location in the fc-al backplane), but use different WWNs.
    Use show-disks to display the available disks and re-assign the boot-device accordingly.
    Michael
    P.S.: I just noticed that you never provided feedback in previous posts.

  • MDT 32bit boot image does not boot type 2 virtual machine in hyper-v

    I created a type 2 virtual machine on a windows server 2012 R2 and tried to boot it with MDT 32 bit (x86) boot media and it will not boot.
    Same media works if I use type 1 virtual machine .
    Is this expected behavior ? 
    Thanks

    Hi,
    Yes as Gen 2 machines only nsupports only x64 os and the following OS:s
    Windows Server 2012
    Windows Server 2012 R2 
    64-bit versions of Windows 8
    64-bit versions of Windows 8.1
    -- My System Center blog ccmexec.com -- Twitter
    @ccmexec

  • HT1899 How do i boot to mac after boot camp

    How do i boot back to mac after boot camp? I was in the middle of installing windows 7 when i received an error message saying the partition needs to be in a diff format ( NFTS ). I tried restarting my mac but now its saying "no bootable device - insert boot disk"

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
    You have to format the volume using NTFS in Windows installer. After you've installed Windows, press X key while your computer is starting to start in Mac OS X

  • MOVED: MSI MODEL PM8M-V {MS-7104}-SYSTEM WILL BOOT,BUT WILL NOT BOOT TO OPERATING SYSTE

    This topic has been moved to Intel P4 & Celeron P4 based board.
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=106263.0

    Quote from: bee743 on 04-March-07, 01:06:57
    Hi-Thanks for the quick reply,and sorry for the all CAPS.I did what you suggested,and it worked!!You are the Man!!
    On some of my other machines I always have the boot to cd-,as first and then h.d. as one of the last,but i've never had to go back in bios to change to h.d.  as the first.Is there any reason for this?
    One other thing,it seems that the boot process takes longer than i normally wait on,on other machines,is this anything to be concerned with?
    Once again,thank you for your knowledge and help.
    "One other thing,it seems that the boot process takes longer than i normally wait on,on other machines,is this anything to be concerned with?"
    perhaps no, can be just slow initialisation(enable "quick boot", disable floppy drive seek to speedup boot time a bit.
    "On some of my other machines I always have the boot to cd-,as first and then h.d. as one of the last,but i've never had to go back in bios to change to h.d.  as the first.Is there any reason for this?"
    well if the CD are blank or CD in drive is not bootable, boot process will continue with 2nd assigned boot device.(probably you don't have hdd configured as 2nd boot choice)(try to boot from other device should be enabled from BIOS as well). also if there is no respond(no user action taken due few seconds) at "press any key to boot from CD" boot from CD will be skipped automatically and boot process will be forwarded to second boot selection..
    "Hi-Thanks for the quick reply,and sorry for the all CAPS.I did what you suggested,and it worked!!You are the Man!!
    Once again,thank you for your knowledge and help."
    you are welcome.

Maybe you are looking for