My macbook keeps blacking out. What does this mean?
So ever so often my mac book pro blacks out on me. I cant log in or do anything on my mac for that few sec. I'm wondering if there something wrong with my system or its something i downloaded?
It looks as if there's a problem with your GPU. With a Retina machine, that would mean replacement of just about everything, except, perhaps, the flash storage drive.
Print you kernel panic when you go to your Apple Store appointment. I'm betting that it's a faulty GPU but they will be able to diagnose exactly where the problem lies.
Good luck,
Clinton
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The battery icon on my (old) MacBook Pro turned red. Then black. What does this mean?
The battery icon on my (old) MacBook Pro turned red for a few moments, then black. What does this mean?
penny41,
Thanks, glad it helped you to check your battery status.
Something else to look at would be the cycle count, as you mention that your computer is "ancient". If you have a high number of cycles, it may also be a sign that the battery is tired and possibly nearing it's life span, and may possibly need to be replaced soon. If you see that again you may try a SMC reset to see if that helps, but if it continues you may need a new battery at some point. The battery icon will usually say needs service, or something to that effect. For the later MBP's Apple claims a life span of up to 1000 cycles, of this also will be dependent on who the battery is used, on the older ones I'm not quite sure what the claims were, and I don't know how old "ancient" in your case actually means.
I provide this for your info, so that you understand what may possibly be occurring.
I wish you the best.
SMC reset:
Follow directions for what applies to your machine, a battery you can remove, or a battery you should not remove yourself.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support -
Connection time out what does this mean?
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Please help....I hate iTunes to begin with. Especially the latest they have come up with. Layout drives me crazy. And now....I find maybe a couple of songs in an album as "black" and the other titles are greyed out. What does this mean? I find it very frustrating as the black titles will repeat but the others seem to just disappear off the "play next" list. How can I fix this? And no...downloading from iCloud hasn't helped any.
This sounds like you have some unchecked tracks. These are skipped during track to track playback. The track names are slightly greyed out in the album view. You can normally see the check boxes from the Songs view or you can change the status via the rght-click context menu.
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About a month ago my fan started making a weird clicking/whirring noise. It eventually stopped and I thought nothing of it (this might be unrelated, but I just want you all to have as much info as possible).
Then, yesterday, my Mac was acting funny. I was trying to watch netflix and whenever I clicked on a video, BAM the whole screen went black and the sound stopped. But the keyboard stayed lit. The only way to rouse the computer out of this state was to hard shut it off (ten seconds on the power button), and then turn it back on. Except, sometimes when I turned it back on, the screen would go white and play the mac startup musc and then immediately go black again. It was really weird and took me 2-3 times to be successful with even booting up the computer.
I ran a hardware check and it said nothing was wrong. I tried to reinstall the OS but when I entered recovery mode, the internet just wouldn't work. Like... the wi fi found no networks, even though I'm sitting in the exact same spot I was in yesterdat with the entire wi-fi wave filled and it's totally fine.
I don't know what this means. I'm planning on taking my mac in tomorrow, but I was wondering if you guys could help save me some time.
Here's what my most recent error report looked like:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 20 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: CBBF8385-F490-592F-C323-835363AD804D
Sun Oct 13 10:21:11 2013
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7fa4503f1a): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 5 0 a0 d9 9 8 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0x113200000 0xffffff8116c60000 0x0e7150a2, D0, P1/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.4.5/src/AppleM uxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff810c26b310 : 0xffffff802221d636
0xffffff810c26b380 : 0xffffff7fa4503f1a
0xffffff810c26b450 : 0xffffff7fa298926c
0xffffff810c26b510 : 0xffffff7fa2a5c1f6
0xffffff810c26b550 : 0xffffff7fa2a5c254
0xffffff810c26b5c0 : 0xffffff7fa2d7c6fe
0xffffff810c26b630 : 0xffffff7fa2a84ad1
0xffffff810c26b650 : 0xffffff7fa299003f
0xffffff810c26b700 : 0xffffff7fa298dad6
0xffffff810c26b900 : 0xffffff7fa298fbdc
0xffffff810c26b9f0 : 0xffffff7fa39c3c6f
0xffffff810c26ba50 : 0xffffff7fa39c0f07
0xffffff810c26ba90 : 0xffffff7fa39aa898
0xffffff810c26bad0 : 0xffffff7fa39a139b
0xffffff810c26bb30 : 0xffffff802266f789
0xffffff810c26bb50 : 0xffffff8022670d30
0xffffff810c26bbb0 : 0xffffff802266e74f
0xffffff810c26bd00 : 0xffffff8022298c21
0xffffff810c26be10 : 0xffffff8022220b4d
0xffffff810c26be40 : 0xffffff8022210448
0xffffff810c26be90 : 0xffffff802221961b
0xffffff810c26bf00 : 0xffffff80222a63ee
0xffffff810c26bfb0 : 0xffffff80222cf221
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl(3.4.5)[49FEF732-D7A3-327B-A7AA-6AC5A6E3DCFF]@0 xffffff7fa44f6000->0xffffff7fa4508fff
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert(1.0.4)[B5B1F368-132E-3509-9ED5-93270E3ABB DD]@0xffffff7fa44f1000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[2FAEA49C-EA4C-39C6-9203-FC022277A43C]@0xffffff 7fa288e000
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl(3.4.5)[4A2C8548-7EF1-38A9-8817-E8CB34B8DC A6]@0xffffff7fa44dd000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[A35915E8-C1B0-3C0F-81DF-5515BC9002FC]@0xfffff f7fa3388000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[F16E015E-1ABE-3C40-AC71-BC54F4BE442E]@0xff ffff7fa2914000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[9928306E-3508-3DBC-80A4-D8F1D87650D7]@0 xffffff7fa28d1000
com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.6)[EA4F9902-5AAE-3F1D-A846-3796221C8C91]@0xffffff7fa29 28000->0xffffff7fa2bcafff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[2FAEA49C-EA4C-39C6-9203-FC022277A43C]@0xffffff 7fa288e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[F16E015E-1ABE-3C40-AC71-BC54F4BE442E]@0xff ffff7fa2914000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[9928306E-3508-3DBC-80A4-D8F1D87650D7]@0 xffffff7fa28d1000
com.apple.nvidia.gk100hal(8.1.6)[A6140B32-E6F2-37A2-94A1-D957086A854E]@0xffffff 7fa2bd6000->0xffffff7fa2f05fff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.6)[EA4F9902-5AAE-3F1D-A846-3796221C8C91]@0xffffff7fa29 28000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[2FAEA49C-EA4C-39C6-9203-FC022277A43C]@0xffffff 7fa288e000
com.apple.GeForce(8.1.6)[0E3D8776-A5B7-3D82-9BFD-9188170B358D]@0xffffff7fa395d0 00->0xffffff7fa3a2afff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.6)[EA4F9902-5AAE-3F1D-A846-3796221C8C91]@0xffffff7fa29 28000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[F16E015E-1ABE-3C40-AC71-BC54F4BE442E]@0xff ffff7fa2914000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[2FAEA49C-EA4C-39C6-9203-FC022277A43C]@0xffffff 7fa288e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[9928306E-3508-3DBC-80A4-D8F1D87650D7]@0 xffffff7fa28d1000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Google Chrome He
Mac OS version:
12F45
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Sun Sep 29 13:33:47 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.12~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: EA38B02E-2B88-309F-BA68-1DE29F605DD8
Kernel slide: 0x0000000022000000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8022200000
System model name: MacBookPro10,1 (Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 1020758505534
last loaded kext at 191216763369: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 1.8.4 (addr 0xffffff7fa4607000, size 229376)
last unloaded kext at 142054487429: com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.0.2b1 (addr 0xffffff7fa33f2000, size 28672)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 1.8.4
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com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.1.7f2
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler 2.0.7d2
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.13.12
com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 124
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.GeForce 8.1.6
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com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.1.7f4
com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl 3.4.5
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com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.3
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD4000Graphics 8.1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferCapri 8.1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 237.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 237.1
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Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SM256E, 251 GB
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Also really quickly: I don't know where to put this, but the first time my computer reset, the desktop wallpaper turned back to the wallpaper I had before the one I currently have selected. That was really weird/random. Thoughts?It looks as if there's a problem with your GPU. With a Retina machine, that would mean replacement of just about everything, except, perhaps, the flash storage drive.
Print you kernel panic when you go to your Apple Store appointment. I'm betting that it's a faulty GPU but they will be able to diagnose exactly where the problem lies.
Good luck,
Clinton -
Have a IPad air. I cannot sync all my music from my computer. It keeps saying the device has timed out??? What does this mean? Unfortunately I have an older Dell that's running windows XP. Help please. Not a computer savvy person
Device Manager which is in Control Panels
I strongly recommend AIDA64 to show everything, temps, fans, chips, drivers and versions
http://www.aida64.com/ Windows has better tools to show you every service and knick and cranny
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2769294
http://realitypod.com/category/hacks-and-cracks/mac-hacks-and-cracks/
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The built in screen in my Macbook keeps blacking out, even though the computer is on.
Hi
The internal screen on my Macbook keeps blacking out; when this happens the computer is still on - just no screen. This happens when unplugged after a few seconds, and takes a bit longer when plugged in.
If I close the lid and open it again the screen works again for a few seconds before the blackout returns. Obviously this is not the ideal work scenario!
It does not appear that this is a backlight issue (I presume) as I cannot see any image on the screen when this happens from any angle.
If I turn the brightness all the way down and then back up again the screen flicks on for a fraction of a second before anything happens again.
Any ideas what might be causing this? If I can fix it? And/or how much an Apple repair of the problem is likely to cost.
Many thanks for your help!
Martin FaintUnfortunately it sounds like the logic board... happened on a MB I have at work. That's an Apple Store replacement, and can be expensive if your mac's out of warranty. Free if it's still covered...
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My iPod doesn't sync it keeps coming up with the message "The iPod 'iPod Nano' cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (13019)." What does this mean and how can I fix it?
I am getting the same error message. Have you figured it out?
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I'm trying to burn playlists onto a cd from itunes. I keep getting a "medium write error" message. What does this mean? I heard that this may mean that I should try burning at a slower speed. I tried this and that didn't help. I also heard that I may need to use a different brand of CD-R disc. I have not tried this yet. I also heard that it could be a software issue or disc drive issue. I recently updated my macbook pro software from tiger to snow leapord. Do you think this could have affected my itunes playlist burning capabilities? Thanks for the help.
A system upgrade should not have affected anything. When did you notice the loss in functionality?
Try different media. 2011 post on optical media - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2754858&
Apple Portables: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
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You could try a drive cleaning disc to remove dust. Don't be overly optimistic. I suspect it is an old drive issue. -
I keep getting an error message that reads: Not enough storage This iphone cannot be backed up because there is not enough icloud storage available. What does this mean? How do I fix it?
Try doing a hard reset:
Press and hold both the Home button and the Sleep/wake button simultaneously for about 15 seconds and release when the Apple logo appears.
After that: go to Settings - iCloud - Storage and backup - turn off the iCloud backup
and backup with iTunes from now on
More info on backing up: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
Or, if you prefer to keep backing up with iCloud, check out this article, it will help you understand how to manage the iCloud storage:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847 -
I am trying to download EndNoteX4 but keep getting the message 'no mountable file systems'. What does this mean and how do fix it?
jenitsallgood wrote:
I am really unsure as to what I am doing wrong.
Maybe you are doing nothing wrong and the problem is with the disk.
Use SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner
to clone your system to an external drive.
Then boot from your DVD go to Disk Utility and choose your entire drive > top icon in DIsk Utility.
Go to Erase tab. Choose format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Click on erase. Now, install Lion and when you get to setup assistant choose to migrate from your external drive.
This is slightly different than baltwo described and slighly longer but if there is any corruption on your disk a more through way to go, IMO.
What baltwo is saying is to clone your volume over to an external hard drive with CCC reformat and clone it back. This will defragment the files and make them all contiguous but will not address any directory problems.
Your choice. You can do it one way, then the other if it doesn't work out for you. -
The last date of my back up was 10/4- keeps saying The backup disk image "/backup disk image "/Volumes/time Capsule/ cheryl lynott's MacBook.sparsebundle" is already in use?
HELP -- what does this mean -- .......
Often, this error can be corrected by pulling the power on the Time Capsule, waiting a few minutes, and powering the Time Capsule back up.
See # C12 for more tips
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html -
A box keeps popping up on my MacBook telling me that my Mac OS X Startup disk has no more space available for application memory. It shows Firefox, Mac Mail, Finder and Pages. What does this mean? Thanks. Jessie
Apple menu > About This Mac > More info... > Storage
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Hi - I keep receiving the following error message on a song I purchased from itunes and am now trying to drag and drop to my iPad: "you must download items from icloud before you can copy then to iPad" what does this mean - please help! Thank you
Hi Poonam26c,
If you do not have a local copy of a song which you have purchased (i.e. it is available via iTunes in the Cloud), you may need to redownload it before you can transfer it to your device. You may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Regards,
- Brenden -
I received this error message when trying to use my time capsule. Macbook Air.sparsebundle already is use. What does this mean?
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I'm a first time Mac user and I went to play my music on Itunes out loud and all the music I previously purchased will not play and then a pop up appears saying my computer is not authorized? what does this mean and how can I fix it?
You need to authorize the new computer that youre working with. First hover over the store button at the top of the screen and then select the authorize this computer button then a popup will appear where you have to put in your Apple ID and Password. Hopefully this works for you
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