My macbook air wont boot up. Just beeps every 5 seconds and a white light flashes on front of keyboard

That normally indicates an issue with system memory. The startup sequence can't complete the boot due to a memory issue. Take it in for service.

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It means you should take it to the Genius Bar. You will no doubt need to buy an out of warranty replacement.

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Hello King Cutway
If you are having issues with the functions keys, then check the settings in System Preferences > Keyboard and look to see if Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys is unchecked so you can use it properly.
Mac OS X: How to change the behavior of function keys
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
Regards,
-Norm G.

P35 NEO-2 FR won't boot. One beep every few seconds.

Hello, I hope someone can help me
Out of the nothing my computer crashed. There was a blue screen, but only for a split second, so I couldn’t get any information from that. After I tried to turn it back on I only got a black screen.
Messages from my PC:
One beep every few seconds. -- Means: DRAM refresh failure.
The LEDs on the board have the combination red-red-green-green. -- Means: Decompressing BIOS Image to RAM for fast booting.
Obviously I tried another RAM module. But it didn’t help. I don’t know what I should do, because I can’t even get to the BIOS. The screen just stays black.
PS: I didn’t OC or try to flash a new Bios version.
My system:
P35 NEO-2 FR, BIOS v. 1.8, S/N: 601-7345-100B0805092463
Intel Q9300
G.Skill 2 GB DDR2 PC2-6400 CL5-5-5-15 (also tried brand new Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 MHz CL5-5-5-18)
MSI N460GTX Hawk
beQuit Straight Power 600W

Okay, please have a look at this document:
http://www.ami.com/support/doc/AMIBIOS8_Checkpoint_and_Beep_Code_List_PUB.pdf
As you can see, there are two main routines going on after you hit the power-on button:
1. Bootblock Initialization
__ and __
2. POST Code
Your problem description ...
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The LEDs on the board have the combination red-red-green-green. -- Means: Decompressing BIOS Image to RAM for fast booting.
... indicates that your system halts in the first of the two main routines I just mentioned. To be more precise, it hangs at Bootblock Initialization Checkpoint D5, which is defined as follows:
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Bootblock code is copied from ROM to lower system memory and control is given to it. BIOS now executes out of RAM. Copies compressed boot block code to memory in right segments. Copies BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster access. Performs main BIOS checksum and updates recovery status accordingly.
In the last two phases of this checkpoint:
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Copies BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster access. Performs main BIOS checksum and updates recovery status accordingly.
The actual BIOS Code is copied into RAM and checked for integrity. When BIOS corruption is detected (=wrong BIOS checksum), the system will automatically jump into BIOS Recovery Mode (which is a sub-routine of the Bootblock Initialization routine).
Now, this brings us to the actual meaning of the beep(s) you hear:
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One beep every few seconds. -- Means: DRAM refresh failure.
The BIOS Recovery mode (which is not part of the actual P.O.S.T. Routine, but a sub-routine of the Bootblick Intialization Routine) has its own set of Beep Code definitions which are described on page 15 of the document I linked you to:
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Boot Block Beep Codes
Number of Beeps -- Description
1 -- No media present. (Insert diskette in floppy drive A:)
2 -- ‘AMIBOOT.ROM’ file not found in root directory of diskette in A:
3 -- Insert next diskette if multiple diskettes are used for recovery
4 -- Flash Programming successful
5 -- File read error
7 -- No Flash EPROM detected
10 -- Flash Erase error
11 -- Flash Program error
12 --‘AMIBOOT.ROM’ file size error
13 -- BIOS ROM image mismatch (file layout does not match image present in flash device)
Consequently, the meaning of that single beep, that repeats every few settings is not "DRAM refresh failure" (this would be its meaning in the P.O.S.T. Routine, but we are looking at the Recovery Routine), but it actually means:
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1 -- No media present. (Insert diskette in floppy drive A:)
What you have to do is this:
1. Hook up an internal (!!) floppy drive to your mainboard
2. Prepare an AMI BIOS Recovery disk:
--> Download the latest BIOS Archive for your board from the product site
--> Extract the actual BIOS File and rename it to AMIBOOT.ROM
--> Copy the renamed BIOS File to an empty & formated floppy disk
3. Put the disk that contains the AMIBOOT.ROM file into the internal floppy drive that you connected to the mainboard.
4. Pray that the system finds the disk, reads the file on it and performs a recovery flash

My macbook air wont boot up past the loading screen. UPDATE

My 2008 macbook air will turn on, and then go to the apple screen with the loading wheel, but after a few minutes of loading it just shuts down...
Here is an update of the problem after i messed around with it for a bit.
I start up the macbook while holding Command+s
Then it brings up the prompt.
I then type: /sbin/fsck -fy
It then outputs a message saying:
disk0s2: I/0 error.
Invalid sibling link
(4, 42746)
**The volume macintosh HD could not be repaired.
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
After that, i type in: /sbin/mount -uw /
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It works fine like this, but i dont want to have to do those steps every time I want to use my macbook...
Any help on how to fix this?

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My thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19007548#19007548
My Imac froze earlier today as I was dragging an image from safari into indesig and when it froze the weirdest pattern overlaid the screen. It looked just like the opacity pattern from photoshop with grey and white squares. I turned the computer off using the power button and unplugged everything.
Now when I try to start it these weird lines appear on my start up screen (see link)...
http://meijerladdaruppgrejer.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/oops/
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MacBook Air wont boot from cd, dvd, thumb drive or network

hey guys. i just bought a used macbook air from a friend and i want to wipe his stuff off the computer as well as reset the password.
i tried booting the install disc on the MBA from my room mates macbook pro and it gives me a kernel error every time i try. same thing on the other rooms mates MB. same thing when i try to boot off a flash drive. i even tried to make a bootable flash drive with ubuntu but to no avail.
any other suggestions?

ok guys
ive tried the install key that come with it. ive tried using an external drive. same freaking thing happens
i have the crash log here
"Interval Since Last Panic Report: 2152942 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 11
Anonymous UUID: 080C0778-6263-4D99-8669-D8FD7DCCDD6F
Wed Mar 2 17:56:15 2011
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x04188f58, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x2a7d0000, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x040de6e6, EBX: 0x05314f80, ECX: 0x05310080, EDX: 0x3106b710
CR2: 0x2a7d0000, EBP: 0x0006046c, ESI: 0x0541f200, EDI: 0x05320e80
EFL: 0x00010286, EIP: 0x04188f58, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x053c0010
Error code: 0x0000afe4
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2a763b88 : 0x21acfa (0x5ce650 0x2a763bbc 0x223156 0x0)
0x2a763bd8 : 0x2a6ac2 (0x590a50 0x4188f58 0xd 0x590c07)
0x2a763cb8 : 0x29c968 (0x2a763cd0 0x0 0x6046c 0x4188f58)
0x2a763cc8 : 0x4188f58 (0xe 0x53c0048 0x2a760010 0x31050010)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x6046c
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10A432
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookAir3,2 (Mac-942C5DF58193131B)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 15737165837
unloaded kexts:
(none)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile 17
com.apple.DontSteal_Mac_OSX 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.7.4a1
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 2.8.16
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com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.0
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com.apple.driver.ACPISMCPlatformPlugin 3.4.0a20
com.apple.GeForce 6.0.0
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 2.5.0
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.SparseDiskImage 281
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.ReadWriteDiskImage 281
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.UDIFDiskImage 281
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.RAMBackingStore 281
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.HTTPBackingStore 281
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.FileBackingStore 281
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 3.7.8
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx 410.91.20
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 3.7.5
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com.apple.driver.DiskImages.KernelBacked 281
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com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 3.7.5
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Model: MacBookAir3,2, BootROM MBA31.0061.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.86 GHz, 2 GB, SMC 1.66f54
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, NVIDIA GeForce 320M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0xD1), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.8f7, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD TS256C, 233.76 GB
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x850a, 0x24600000
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8403, 0x26100000
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x04500000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x821b, 0x04530000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x023f, 0x04300000
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My macbook air wont boot up

I get the grey screen with the spinning timmer animation.

See if you can boot into safe mode, if not youll need to reinstall your OS, how old is your AIR? Yours might have come with a boot OS memstick, of if running Mountain Lion you can erase and reinstall via net connection.
Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode
Learn how to start up in Safe Mode.
To start up into Safe Mode (to Safe Boot), do this:
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
During startup in Mac OS X v10.4 through Mac OS X v10.6.8, you will see "Safe Boot" on the login window, which appears even if you normally log in automatically. During startup in Mac OS X v10.2 through v10.3.9, you will see "Safe Boot" on the Mac OS X startup screen.
To leave Safe Mode, restart the computer normally, without holding any keys during startup.

My macbook air wont boot.

Hello everyone.
I dont know what is going on with my mba. I just cant turn it on. No sound no fan,nothing. The light charger is green,sometimes is red. This is the third time. Its only happen when i shut down my mba without macsafe. I dont know why. Tried smc reset but nothing different. I even shake my mac but still nothing. I dont know if it something wrong with the logic board.
Thanks for the help.

Do not shake your Mac under any circumstances.
only happen when i shut down my mba without macsafe
What exactly is, "macsafe" ??
And which OS X is installed?

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Your boot drive is damaged in some way. If you have an original installation disc, you can boot from that and run Disk Utility. From DU you can select your internal hard drive ("Macintosh HD" is the name Apple puts on it - you may have renamed yours) and select "Verify Disk". If errors come up, try "Repair Disk". If it repairs, then you should be able to restart and boot from it. If it doesn't show up or won't repair, your drive is probably hosed.
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