MacBook 07 running snow leopard 10.6 does not want to click anything but keyboard works.
I tried PRAM and I can't find my snow leopard disk. What can I do? It was worki ng fine last night and this morning it kept freezing our so I thought and didn't click anything. It automatically opens up the apple up to but can't click anything and doesn't even zoom on the apps on the bar at the bottom.
It sounds like your hard drive may be failing. If you don't have a bootable backup external hard drive or DVD, you may be out of luck. Take it in for service.
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rayvonr wrote:
...I have 18 yrs. worth of financial records on Quicken that I have read will not work with Lion and I've read bad things about running music programs on Maverick.
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http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH165159
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raeusebio32 wrote:
I DO NOT HAVE THE ORIGINAL DISK THAT CAME WITH THE LAPTOP IN THE BOX.
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hello,
just wondering if my macbook is capable of running SL smoothly without anything crashes,
1st generation macbook:
2GHz Intel Core Duo
80GB HDD
upgraded 2GB SDRAM <--- that's the highest capacity my generation is allowed right?
also, i like to reformat my mac once in a while. so if i get SL, will i be able to use it again after reformats? or will that one use be it?
thanks for the help.Snow Leopard should work fine on your Mac.
I don't know what the maximum RAM capacity is. Maybe this site will help:
http://forums.macnn.com/69/mac-notebooks/358184/a-guide-to-macbook-ram-upgrades/
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