MacBook Pro startup issue

I have a MacBook Pro 17" laptop. Everything flawless until recently. I tried to power it up the other day, the light of the power button came on, it made a short boot up noise then shut off. Same thing happens every time I try to power up now. Any ideas?

Have you tried to boot it with the power adapter? If it will not power up with that, then you will have to go to a repair facility.
Ciao.

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Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x7fff7101c490 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10210bcd0 of class NSURL autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100e3fcf0 of class NSURLRequest autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10210bcd0 of class NSURL autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100e45460 of class NSCFDictionary autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100e43e50 of class NSError autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100e46e60 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100e45100 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:53:10 MikeMBP15 Safari[244]: * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x100e1cf30 of class NSConcreteMutableData autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Jan 8 00:55:10 MikeMBP15 [0x0-0x20020].com.apple.Safari[244]: Canceleld; 0; Empty 1
Jan 8 00:55:11: --- last message repeated 317 times ---
Jan 8 00:55:11 MikeMBP15 [0x0-0x22022].com.google.Chrome[249]: [0108/005511:INFO:/b/build/slave/chrome-official-mac/build/src/chrome/app/break pad_mac.mm(89)] Breakpad disabled
Jan 8 00:55:14 MikeMBP15 [0x0-0x22022].com.google.Chrome[249]: objc[253]: Class CrApplication is implemented in both /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/8.0.552.231/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/../../../Google Chrome Framework.framework/Google Chrome Framework and /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/8.0.552.231/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/PDF.plugin/Contents/MacOS/PDF. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jan 8 00:55:14 MikeMBP15 [0x0-0x22022].com.google.Chrome[249]: objc[253]: Class NoOp is implemented in both /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/8.0.552.231/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/../../../Google Chrome Framework.framework/Google Chrome Framework and /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/8.0.552.231/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/PDF.plugin/Contents/MacOS/PDF. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jan 8 00:55:14 MikeMBP15 [0x0-0x22022].com.google.Chrome[249]: objc[253]: Class TaskOperation is implemented in both /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/8.0.552.231/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/../../../Google Chrome Framework.framework/Google Chrome Framework and /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/8.0.552.231/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/PDF.plugin/Contents/MacOS/PDF. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions floating around here.
Its kind of scary seeing some of these "issues" and not seeing any answers.
I just spent 3 g's on a 2011 mbp, and I am really hoping all the great things that I've learned about Apple still rein true. Those are the only reasons I bought one.
My startup is very slow as well.

MacBook Pro HD issues; won't boot to any drive; need to recover data

*Apologies in advance for the lengthy post. I just want to be sure I include as much detail as possible. Thanks in advance for reading all of this and offering any thoughts and suggestions.
I have a 13-inch late 2011 MacBook Pro running OS 10.7.
The computer recently began booting slower and slower until finally one day it did nothing but show the gray boot screen with the apple and a spinning circle and/or progress bar at the bottom. It won't do anything else. I assume it's the HD; no surprise there. What's killing me is that no matter what I do, I can't boot to any disk, internal or external, can't mount it in target disk mode, and can't repair it or recover data, which is a first for me with any HD. However, the computer still clearly sees the drive, and the drive sounds and runs normally (meaning no clicks; appropriate amount of whirs and such).
What I've done so far:
Reset PRAM — no help
Reset SMC — no help
Boot in Safe Mode — same result as regular boot: gray logo screen with spinning wheel
Disk Utility message:
Verify Disk — "Error: This disk nees to be repaired. Click Repair Disk."
Repair Disk — gets as far as "Checking catalog file" then shows "Keys out of order". Next is "Rebuilding catalog B-tree." Then "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired."
fsck — same as Disk Utility: "Keys out of order (4, 22016)", "Rebuilding catalog B-tree", then "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired." FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED." ...over and over again
If I hold Option while starting the computer, it gives me only two drives to boot from, regardless of any other external HDs or flash drives I have attached: Macintosh HD (internal), and Recovery HD (internal partition). If I choose Macintosh HD, it's hit or miss whether it prompts the Disk Utility screen or just gray-screens forever. If I choose Recovery HD, it successfully runs Disk Utility every time. Here's the thing, though — if I attach an external HD, it doesn't see it during the initial Option-startup. However, from Disk Utility I'm able to select a startup disk from the menu to restart into. It sees the externals in there every time and lets me select them as startup disks, but upon restart it returns to the gray Apple logo screen with spinning wheel and/or progress bar at bottom. Sometimes it also sees the internal Macintosh HD here, but selecting that is useless. I can't actually boot from any disk, internal or external, running full OS or even just recovery software.
I've tried using TechTool Pro 8's edisk and ProToGo bootable drives, but again, the MacBook only sees them from Disk Utility only (not on Option-start), and I can select them, but it doesn't actually boot to them; it reverts back to gray screen.
I've installed a full version of OS 10.10.2 on an external hard drive, complete with DiskWarrior 4 on it, but same problem as above — it sees it in the "Select Startup Disk" menu, but not in the initial Option-start or successful reboot.
I've tried booting from a DiskWarrior 4 DVD using C-startup. It recognizes and spins the DVD from the get-go. Eventually it boots to it (after about 20 minutes or so of reading the DVD). I'm able to launch DiskWarrior 4 and start a rebuild. However, it goes all the way through "Step 6: Constructing optimized replacement directory... Overlapped files detected: 7 ...Step 7: Finishing construction ...Step 8: Reading from disc, one moment please..." and then the computer kernel panicked. This happened several times. I reset the PRAM again, then retried DiskWarrior DVD boot, this avoided a kernel panic and it got as far as "Comparing directories... Step 9: Recording any file or folder differences; 3,449,089,956 tests..." and then DiskWarrior and the computer both freeze and I have to force shutdown.
The drive will not mount to another laptop in Target Disk Mode.
Disk Arbitrator immediately sees the the faulty laptop HD, but won't let me mount or unmount it. It's just there, grayed out.
Data Rescue 4 is able to see the faulty laptop HD through Target Disk Mode, even though the drive itself will not mount to my desktop. I am able to scan the drive using DR4, and start a data recovery process. However, DR4 is dumping all recovered data into "User Defined" ai (Adobe Illustrator) files, which makes absolutely no sense at all. What's more, the files aren't able to be opened by any program. Even files that it hasn't recovered into ai files, like txt and mpegs, cannot be opened. I've tried recovering from both the drive itself and from a clone of the drive (made through DR4), with the same result each time.
So, all of that said, I guess my first question is what the **** is going on? The drive mechanically is functioning fine, but there seems to be an issue with its readability (and the directory/files?).
What's more, why won't this laptop mount ANY drive? I should be able to Option-boot into any drive, especially if the USB ports, drives, and OS's are all fully functional, right? Is there any workaround I'm missing? Even if the internal drive and data are just screwed, what's causing a total lack of mounting or booting of any drive, internal or external?

Holy crap, I got it to work.
Essentially, I just waited until DiskWarrior reached Step 9 and told it to skip the step before it had a chance to freeze. It skipped successfully, moved on, rebuilt and replaced the faulty directory files.
So far the computer is booting like normal, I can log in, and I'm currently copying all of the data to an external as I type this.
I still have no idea why the computer wouldn't mount or boot to any drive, but I guess I'll deal with that later.

Macbook Pro startup

Hi, quite new to this but since upgradeing my Macbook pro from 10.7.4 to 10.7.5, the startup process is now showing a apple logo prior to going to the desktop.
When I turn it on I see the normal, bright Apple screen with logo and spinning ring, this then stops and goes to a darker grey screen with the Apple logo before going to my desktop, it pauses there for approx 5 seconds, it never used to do this prior to the upgrade.
Everything works fine, but anyone else got this and any ideas how to stop it?
I also have the same issue with Time machine as others, used to be quick but no longer, 5 hours and still going for a 10 gig backup. No sure if the USB sockets are slow, it took ages during the week to copy music to my memory stick.
Macbook pro mid 2011 with Lion pre installed, 13".

Yes it is. At least on my original MacBook Pro. Video Tutorials-Learning about Macs

Macbook Pro startup screen distorted

I have a 2 Ghz Intel Core i7 16GB RAM, Early 2011 - 15" Macbook Pro running OS X 10.8.3. When I start it up, the startup splash screen doesn't fill the entire screen. After a few seconds, the screen shows distorted colors and shapes, and then resizes and boots up normally. Is this a known problem? Can this be fixed?

If the PRAM reset doesn't fix it, it sounds like a bad 10.8 update or a hardware issue.
Try to see if you can do a #8 here
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
Make sure to reboot twice so EFI takes hold as that loads first before OS X .
You can install OS X on a external drive and boot from it, see if it's not a hardware problem.
.Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive

MacBook Pro graphics issue

Just bought a new 15" MacBook pro with lion (2.0 GHz i7, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive @7200 RPM) I am having a small problem with the graphics / animations in Lion (spefically entering mission control). After a fresh startup, the animations seem "choppy" but after I put the computer to sleep and then wake it, everything works fine. The issue started after I install 10.7.1 but not at the same time. Does anyone else have this issue or have any insight into what could be causing it? Thanks!
-Greg

Which os do you have?
Solution may be found if you search in the "More Like This" section over in the right column.
If you are still under warranty or have Apple Care, call them and get a case number.

MacBook Pro having issues

It appears that my MacBook Pro 10.8.2 is having issues with flash/java. The issues that I am having are;
- YouTube videos won't load or very rarely will
- All of my browsers either refuse to load or will load very slowly (safari, chrome, firefox, opera)
- On an online game (spiral knights) I click on a button to load something else (going to haven/guild hall/joining another user) and it does nothing.
- Went on grooveshark.com and it doesn't load the music search nor the album icons
- I tried to download an antivirus (sophos) and it either timed out, took too long to download a 2.2 mb file or when I did try to download it, I got the message "disk image couldn't be opened - not recognized)
- Tried to get my friend to give me the file through Skype and it is taking ages to download
- Any file type takes too long to download if I am able to get it working
- Have to refresh web pages and try to search again when I am in google to try to get it to work
- it may be affecting Skype calls by losing connection by itself/hanging up Skype calls itself
- Slow startup/shutdown may also be apart of this issue
Writing this on my iPod since my laptop refused to load the apple log in page even when I try to refresh it. I am using cord net and normally my Mac isn't this bad at loading things. Loads pretty well 99% of the time. I have tried disk repair and restarting the computer and the issue is still there. Can anyone help? Thanks.

It sounds as if you're having overall SPEED issues that are probably unrelated to Flash or Java at all.
The first thing that I would address is the slow boot/shutdown time. Take a look at ds store's excellent user tip - Why is my computer slow? It may provide some tips to getting your Mac back on track - if not, also see Mr. store's Step by step to fix your Mac.
You might also just want to check your download/upload speed to see if that's what's causing your Internet connection to flake out - try http://www.speedtest.net/.
Good luck,
Clinton

MacBook Pro boot issue (constant rebooting / won't boot from DVD)

Hello all --
I have read a few other threads that have similar issues, but slightly different.
Today I went to get a new internal HD for my MacBook Pro 15"... just swapped it out at the store and put the old one in an external enclosure. No problem there. Got home and went to put the OS on the new internal HD. The MBP would not boot from the OS X 10.5 DVD. Weird, I thought. Tried a few more times - holding down the 'C' key, the 'option' key and so on. Each time it failed to boot -- it would just reboot after getting to the grey screen (no Apple). However, the machine would boot from the old HD in the external enclosure via USB port. Everything appeared normal, the DVD mounted and the new HD showed up in disk utilities - and I was able to format it ... tried rebooting to OS X DVD with no luck
Luckily I have an iMac as well, I put the MBP in target mode and was able to install 10.5 onto the new HD. Tried rebooting. No luck. Got a flashing folder with a ? mark. Once again tried various tricks to get it to boot - safe mode, single user mode etc. I tried resetting PRAM and the SMU. Nothing. I am at the point now, where the new HD with a fresh OS install won't boot -- it just keeps rebooting after flashing to the grey screen briefly. OS X DVD will not boot the machine, but the external USB drive (with the old HD) will boot the machine.
I did try putting the old drive back into the MBP, but the machine failed to boot.
I am at a total loss.
Help, thoughts, suggestions?
Thanks,
Michael

Seems to consistently work with the old HD inside the MBP and not the new drive.
There is an OS installed on the new drive (it shows up in Startup Disk preference, and when holding down option key at startup).
The new drive will show up as an external when it's in an external enclosure connected to the MacBook (the old one back inside the MacBook).
I did format GUID and Extended (Journaled).
The MacBook Pro 15" unibody late 2008 2.4GHZ -- this one: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP499. It has 4GB RAM, the 250GB 7200 RPM drive.
The new drive is a 750GB Seagate Momentus 2.5 7200RPM 16 MB Cache Interface.
Never had any issues with the machine previous to this.

Advice appreciated on a MacBook pro HDD issue

Hello,
I've just suffered my first real system problem and even though I have a few ideas for how to fix it I thought I'd post here and ask for some advice to see what you guys think.
First the problem... Basically my MacBook Pro's HDD has an issue and won't boot. I don't think it's a physical problem with the hardware (although I'm open to advice on this too), I think it just needs a reformat and fresh install of the OS. But obviously I need to get my files off of there first and this is the problem, but read on for more details.
So that's the problem in a nutshell, but here's the full detail.
It's a MacBook Pro, late 2011, 17", 750GB HDD, 8GB RAM, bought in Miami September 2011 while I was on holiday there (I live in the UK), came with Snow Leopard installed, was upgraded to Lion a few days after purchase and then upgraded to Mountain Lion about a month ago.
Last week I was using it when it suddenly restarted itself. I let it restart, then began using it again and about five minutes later it restarted again, but this time it didn't boot properly.
It stayed on the grey screen with the apple logo and spinning clock-type wheel. There was a progress bar at the bottom of the screen, it took ages to move, then finally got to about 33% and the machine restarted itself again.
I tried lots of restarts but every time it did the same thing or it never even showed the progress bar, and just had the spinning clockwheel forever.
So I held down alt and booted from Mountain Lion's recovery partition instead. I launched Disk Utility and tried to verify / repair the drive but it came back with errors and said that it couldn't fix them. Apologies, I realise typing this that anyone reading would probably quite like to read the error long but I can't remember it and I'm not currently at home. If needed I'll run it again and post.
Anyway, the basic point is that Disk Utility is giving a message saying to copy all my files off the drive and reformat because it can't fix it. Incidentally the SMART status of the drive is fine / normal. Not showing any problems there, which is why I'm hopeful it's not a hadware issue.
So I need to copy my files off, and this is the real reason I'm posting this thread, because I don't mind doing a reformat / fresh install of Mountain Lion, but my last backup is a couple of months old (I know, naughty me) so while it wouldn't be the end of the world to copy files back from that, I would lose a bit of data so would like to get them off the MBP's HDD now.
At this point, let me list the kit I have at my disposal:
- At home I have the aforementioned patient (MacBook Pro), a 2TB external HDD with USB2 / FireWire 800 and a NAS box that sits on my network. I also have one of those cables that lets you connect an internal HDD via USB (more on this later, as I suspect it's going to be my best hope).
- At work I have a Windows 7 PC which I do not have any admin rights to, A Windows XP PC that I do have admin rights to and an iMac that is running Leopard (10.5.8) and cannot be upgraded due to various boring work reasons I won't go into here.
So the first thing I tried was booting into the recovery partition, launching Disk Utility and trying to clone the HDD over to the external 2TB drive I have. Cloning the drive like-for-like gives an error message (again apologies, I can't remember it) and trying to copy to an image file on the external drive gets all the way to the end (takes ages because Disk Utility keeps going to sleep) but then when I try to mount the image it gives an error and fails, so I don't trust this method.
So booting to recovery and using Disk Utility seems to be no good.
I thought about trying to take the MBP to work and launching it in target disk mode, then copying files, however I read that you can only have one FireWire device (the target computer) connected when doing this and my iMac at work doesn't have enough internal HDD space to copy all my MBP's files off, so I would need to have an external drive connected to the iMac in addition to the MBP, which sounds like it's not a good idea, or not supported by Apple anyway.
I thought about making a bootable Mountain Lion USB stick as I have a 16GB USB stick I could use for this, however I don't know how to make the bootable USB using my iMac as it's on Leopard (can't be upgraded for work reasons) and doesn't even have the Mac App store on it for me to re-download the Mountain Lion install file.
I think I have the Snow Leopard DVD that came with my MBP so could probably boot off this, but does that allow me into Finder or anything that would let me copy docs from my internal HDD properly over to the external drive? Or is it just going to look similar to the Mountain Lion recovery partition, with Disk Utility and a few other options?
I don't know whether the Mountain Lion recovery partition lets me install Mountain Lion onto my external drive? Or a USB? I was a bit scared to start clicking through options to see whether it would ask me which drive I wanted to install to, just in case it doesn't and begins erasing the main HDD as one of the first things it does.
So this leaves the cable that allows me to connect internal drives via USB. This cable has saved my bacon in the past and I suspect it may be my best option once more. Obviously this means I'm going to have to open up the MBP and remove the HDD but I installed the extra RAM myself and I've installed full-size (3.5") HDDs in the past so I should be able to handle that, unless there's anything radically different with 2.5" drives I'm not aware of.
I've heard people mention DiskWarrior in the past but to be honest if I'm going to spend that sort of money I'd prefer to just put it towards an new, larger HDD, probably a 2TB model.
So there we are, thanks for reading this far. If you have any advice about another (or better) way to get my files off the MBP I'm all ears.
I've never actually done a fresh install of Mac OS before either, only upgrades downloaded from the Mac App Store so any advice around that might be handy too, but mainly it's the file copying I want help with as I'll probably just boot from the recovery partition to reformat and reinstall Mountain Lion.
Thanks

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Mid-2010 Macbook Pro - Sudden Issues everywhere

Ok, so I've got a Mid-2010 Macbook Pro and just before Christmas all of a sudden issues just popped up everywhere. I'll give you a rundown of what all i've seen and what all I've done since.
So I start getting a message something like
- AppleSecurity - Unauthorized caller ...popping up intermittently. And then,
- Firefox, once you shut the window down you couldn't get open again, and when you quit the app the computer seemed to freeze
- ITunes wouldnt open
- App Store wouldnt open
- Safari would only open some webpages
- Steam worked 10% of the time.
- Powerpoint and Word would crash or not save etc.
- I had to push the button to restart to get the thing working again and from time to time it would freeze or crash shutdown at the grey screen.
- I kept getting small indications that the memory was full.
- Cant shut down or restart without holding the button
So I deleted stuff, generally cleaned up unneeded files etc. ... Same problems. I eventually got so exasperated that I just stuck everything I needed on a flash drive and wiped the user and started a new one.
Same problems but slightly better.... So at this point I go into the Apple Store and go to the Genius bar - The guy wipes runs a check on my hard drive and everything ticks the boxes barring battery which is at 74% roughly. Then he wipes everything off to a factory restart, updates it, then hands it back.
I get it back home and I have issues even setting up the user as if it was a new macbook. I have untick all the set time zone and network stuff to get it to work.
I get it back going and ... still problems... but slightly better. But I cant update flash, steam crashes, sometimes again things dont work. Safari sometimes doesnt open some webpages and I have to restart to get things to get working again.
Also, things seem to be a little better when I'm using the universities internet as opposed to the one in my flat.
SO...! Back into the Apple Store, Genius Bar, he runs a full check on the drive because he seen some I/O errors in the console. AND.. everything passes. He runs a full daignostic and still can't figure it out. He says he seen some weird messages about Steam causing problems in the console but that was it, which I dont think could be the problem because I was getting problems before I even reinstalled it after the factory wipe/reset. The network causing problems maybe?
What do I do people? No-one at the Apple Store can pinpoint whats going on?! I really want to get this fixed because I need this for uni and I can't afford a new one
Please Help!

poikkeus1,
After getting a "properly" functioning LB, the temps are much lower than that, even when beating onit doing live recording. idle 25-30 degrees max, beating it with a "pile of inputs" recording 65-70
The first machine i spent over 4 hours with a senior engineer doing an ARA, it was like someone took a shotgun and blasted the data all over the place.
I switched machines (after 30 days, which would say they knew they had an issue)
Second time temps off the map, and unexplainable "bizzare" behavior. (random)
second time same deal, all over the place.
Now everything seems happy, for months now. (I hope I just did not jinx myself)
It sure seems that would be the place to look, hence you should ask for the flat rate repair.
Best

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