Macbook pro buzzing, sound doesn't work, disk is falsely full...
My 15 inch macbook pro has started buzzing a lot lately at random times. I've had it since 2009, but it's a 2008 model, and I don't know if it's just getting old and telling me that it's going to die soon, or if there's something I can do about it.
It also has other problems, like the sound doesn't work when I start it up (the volume icon is greyed out), and doesn't work again until I've restarted it twice.
Also, when I have programs open, it'll tell me that my disk is full and I only have a few mb of disk space left even if I had many GB available before I opened the programs. I tried fixing this on my own by not having multiple programs open at once, but the disk space won't come back until I restart the computer. It only started doing this a few months ago, and I don't know why.
I used to keep it on all the time and just let it sleep, but I've been shutting it down every day now, and I have the same problems. I don't know what's happening, if it's my fault, or if my computer is just dying, but I need it for animation school and professional photography so if possible I want a heads up if it's about to crash on me.
Thank you.
This worked for me
Reboot the Mac and as soon as you hear the boot chime, hold down the Command+Option+P+R keys together
When you hear the boot sound again, the PRAM has been reset so let the Mac boot again as usual
At this point your Mac should boot again as usual and no longer have the black display, loading OS X as usual.
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0xffffff80f4bfbb30 : 0xffffff7f859ad608
0xffffff80f4bfbb60 : 0xffffff7f859959b7
0xffffff80f4bfbb80 : 0xffffff800444c3d3
0xffffff80f4bfbbb0 : 0xffffff800444c24d
0xffffff80f4bfbbd0 : 0xffffff8004461e74
0xffffff80f4bfbbf0 : 0xffffff8004490e44
0xffffff80f4bfbc70 : 0xffffff8004490477
0xffffff80f4bfbcb0 : 0xffffff800449020a
0xffffff80f4bfbd10 : 0xffffff80044917dc
0xffffff80f4bfbd20 : 0xffffff7f84a7172a
0xffffff80f4bfbd40 : 0xffffff7f84c30b46
0xffffff80f4bfbd80 : 0xffffff7f84c305b6
0xffffff80f4bfbde0 : 0xffffff7f84c26980
0xffffff80f4bfbe20 : 0xffffff7f84c293a9
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