Startup screen flashes half coloured noise and half grey with 4 pixelated apple logos?
Startup screen flashes half coloured noise and half grey with 4 pixelated apple logos anybody got any ideas.
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My macbook beeps on start up and the screen is grey with the apple logo
my mackbook beeps on start up and the screen is grey with the apple logo
Usually inside the battery compartment. Check your user manual for instructions on accessing the RAM slots. If you don't have the manual you can download a copy at support.apple.com/manuals/. You will need to know the actual model you have to get the correct manual for it.
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Constant restart and "clicking" sound with the apple logo reappearing.
my iPod(80 GB) is stuck on the apple logo screen and it keeps shutting off and starting up and shutting off.. so on and so forth. I tried restoring it when i connect it to my computer but it won't get past the actual restore part. It gets all the way through the "extracting software" step and then once it hits the "restore" step it stops about half way through it and says an unknown error has occured(1439) or something like that. I looked that up and it says to try a bunch of different things and i've tried them all and nothing seems to work, not even putting it into disk mode. And once i take it out of Disk Mode a black screen with a white apple logo pops up like it wants to restore or whatever and that loads about 3/4 of the way and then goes right back to the grey screen with the apple logo and continues to go on and off. If anyone has any suggestions let me know because I'm to the point where I will launch this thing at a wall. It's SOO frustrating.
oh... didn't realize you also had a 'corrupt ipod' message.. so far i've been spared that one.
On an early ipod i had that message regularly after a couple of years, and it only went away when i did what i was about to do now: format the thing in mac, then go back and reformat it in Windows. I've no idea at all why that worked,or even whether it "should" work, but, with an old model it did. That particular ipod originally started malfunctioning, i think, due to my own carelessness - i'd left in on the dashboard of my van for a whole day in the sun of a very hot summer. I don't think anything electronic is over-fond of that kind of treatment... whatever, the corruption got cured but the battery gave up not very long after.
Otherwise, i know we're dealing with XP here, not Vista, but a couple of interesting articles on a Windows blog may have a degree of relevance:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=536
and the follow-up
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=543&tag=rbxccnbzd1
i guess i know what you mean about never using apple products again.. I haven't got that far, and don't really expect to, but I said it several times, not always entirely fairly, about Microsoft, when forced to work in nothing but Windows (I've preferred Mac as a basic system for about as long as I can remember...). Seems like Apple, now that they're selling more stuff, are doing what is often so irritating about Microsoft - rushing new stuff out with plenty of wonderful features and selling points but inadequate practical testing... -
I need HELP! My iPod touch 4 is flashing on and off consistently with a white background apple logo and it won't do anything else. I have to completely unplug the power port from the inside. This started after I replaced the screen. Any advice please help me
So I let it set all night unhooked from the power port and tried it today! It works! It acted like to battery was dead and recognized when I tried to power it on! All I can say it was a GOD thing! ;) I done a lot of praying!
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ive also tried holding the home button and the sleep/wake button, it went off and came on and is still stuck on apple logo
If after you have tried the restart method (Hold down the home button and the power button for at least 15 seconds) then I would advise doing a complete factory reset on the phone.
Connect the phone to your computer, and once the device appears in the top right bar, click on it (It will be titled something like "Amanda's iPhone, or iPhone").
Once you have done this, click on the back up iPhone option, (This will save whatever files on your iPhone that aren't on your computer, to your computer.)
After this is done, click the "Restore iPhone" tab to completely reset the phone. If this option won't work, try the first method again when your phone is plugged into your computer and hold the home and power button the same time.
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i dowloaded an app cant rember name but i was ment to be a jailbreak thing (typed in on sarfari jailbreak me) but it was not what i hopped for so i tryed deleting it (and an game boy app off this app) but no X came up on the corner so i tryed resating it but its now frozen and thers the apple logo and a loading bar under it ?
PLEZ HELP ME SOME ONETry forcing your iPod into Recovery Mode...
Follow the Steps in this Article...
Recovery Mode / Unable to Update or Restore
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Boots to windows startup screen, flashes blue screen, restarts and repeats
HP ENVY H8-1414 Product #H3Z00AAR
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Alright, so here is my issue. I turn on my pc and it gets as far as the windows startup screen, flashes a blue screen error for about half of a second and then restarts it self. My HDD is recognized in the bios. Tried a memory test in diagnostics and it passes. Tried a hard disc check and it passes the SMART check but fails the Long DST with a failure ID of 0GF21L-0006LR-WPVX0K-61C703 (no idea if those a zeros or O's)
I've also tried the startup repair but it did nothing. So I removed the hard drive and tried to use it in a different PC but had the same issue so I figured the hard drive went bad. Then I tried formatting a spare hard drive and installed a fresh copy of windows 7 on it, tried it on a different PC and it works just fine. However, when I try to use that hard drive on the HP ENVY I get the exact same problem even though it worked just fine on a differenct pc.
I purchased this PC refurbished about 3 months ago, the warrenty just ended a week ago. There have been no hardware or software changes on it at all. This thing worked flawlessly last night... I locked the computer before bad and I woke up to this. No power outages over night or anything. It just doesn't make any sense.Here are the specs for your HP ENVY h8-1414 Desktop Computer. According to the specs, this model came from the factory with Windows 8 installed. The "blue screen" and restart are normal for Windows 7, when it encounters an error, unless you have altered the default settings.
The LONG DST failure is indicative that the hard drive has failed or is about to fail. Unless the hard drive is moved to an identical or very similar computer, Windows will encounter a "blue screen. This is true with the original hard drive moving from the h8 computer to the other computer and the test hard drive from the other other computer moving to the h8 computer.
Try placing the "test" hard drive in the h8 computer and installing Windows 7 from a DVD or USB stick. If you have any problems, please post back with full error messages and screen shots. Also indicate what stage of the install Windows 7 was doing tat the time.
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I recently "Erased all content and settings" on my iTouch and during the reset, it ran out of battery and it has been the apple logo and a loading symbol on the screen for 2 and a half days now. What do I do?
I did drop it from about 4 and a half foot during the reset so I don't know if that has broken it.See if placing the iPod in Recovery mode will allo iTunes to see the iPod so you can restore it.
Next try DFU mode.
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Refurbished iPod touch 3rd gen won't start. Just got it today to replace my broken one. It freezes at the screen with the apple logo, then flashes off and tries to restart again. Help!
I have tried holding the power home button but all that does is turn it off. When I try to start it again it goes into the same loop.
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I have a white screen with the apple logo upon startup. Then the wheel turns and the screen is white. Can't get past it.
Boot with your install disc, launch Disk Utility, and repair the boot volume.
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have tried resetting and syncing several times, but its getting worse everyday
Have you tried restarting or resetting your iPad?
Restart: Press On/Off button until the Slide to Power Off slider appears, select Slide to Power Off and, after It shuts down, press the On/Off button until the Apple logo appears.
Reset: Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time and hold them until the Apple logo appears (about 10 seconds).
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I am going to sell my second generation ipod touch, so i resetted it to factory defaults. It said it would take up to an hour, and i patiently waited. But when the black and white loading bar completed, the ipod went to the black screen with an apple logo on it. Sounds about right, right? But now, there is a processing circle on top of the logo, but the circle spins once, and stops at about halfway to the bottom. It just stays there, and about every half to one hour it becomes a white screen and starts all over again. (not the loading bar part, just the circle). I've tried holding the power and the home button, and it works, but it just goes back to the circle screen with the apple logo. HELP PLEASE?
Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iPod fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- If still not successful that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order. -
My ipod 5th gen ios 7.0.6 crashed and keeps going from the apple logo, going to a black screen, back to the apple logo, then back to the black screen and so on. Furthermore, my laptop doesn't recognise that the iPod is connected. What do I do?
Please help me out as this is very irritating. This has been happening for the last 20-30 minutes. It had roughly half battery left.Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
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- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
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My MacBook Pro stated that it needed to be updated. I clicked yes to restart the computer and update but when it restarted it stays on the gray screen with the apple logo and then pops up, stating "unable to find driver for this platform." What do I do?
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at the startup chime. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
Note: You need an always-on Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection to the Internet to use Recovery. It won’t work with USB or PPPoE modems, or with networks that require any kind of authentication other than a WPA or WPA2 Personal password.
When the Mac OS X Utilities screen appears, follow the prompts to reinstall the Mac OS. You don't need to erase the boot volume, and you won't need your backup unless something goes wrong. If your Mac didn’t ship with Lion, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade, so make a note of those before you begin.
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I don't know if my mac book air is frozen, but the screen is gray with the apple logo in the middle of the gray screen, with the 'booting' icon turning round and round. I have switched it off fron both the power and power button on the computer, it goes off, when I put it on, same screen comes on again. Help Please!Take each of these steps that you haven't already tried. Stop when the problem is resolved.
Step 1
The first step in dealing with a boot failure is to secure your data. If you want to preserve the contents of the startup drive, and you don't already have at least one current backup, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data that has changed since your last backup, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
a. Boot into the Recovery partition, or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) When the OS X Utilities screen appears, launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
b. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
c. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.
Step 2
Sometimes a boot failure can be resolved by resetting the NVRAM.
Step 3
If you use a wireless keyboard, trackpad, or mouse, replace or recharge the batteries. The battery level shown in the Bluetooth menu item may not be accurate.
Step 4
If there's a built-in optical drive, a disc may be stuck in it. Follow these instructions to eject it.
Step 5
Press and hold the power button until the power shuts off. Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed to boot, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Use a different keyboard and/or mouse, if those devices are wired. If you can boot now, one of the devices you disconnected, or a combination of them, is causing the problem. Finding out which one is a process of elimination.
If you've booted from an external storage device, make sure that your internal boot volume is selected in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.
Step 6
Boot in safe mode. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Post for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
When you boot in safe mode, it's normal to see a dark gray progress bar on a light gray background. If the progress bar gets stuck for more than a few minutes, or if the system shuts down automatically while the progress bar is displayed, your boot volume is corrupt and the drive is probably malfunctioning. In that case, go to Step 6.
If you can boot and log in now, empty the Trash, and then open the Finder Info window on your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) Check that you have at least 9 GB of available space, as shown in the window. If you don't, copy as many files as necessary to another volume (not another folder on the same volume) and delete the originals. Deletion isn't complete until you empty the Trash again. Do this until the available space is more than 9 GB. Then reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode.)
If the boot process hangs again, the problem is likely caused by a third-party system modification that you installed. Post for further instructions.
Step 7
Launch Disk Utility in Recovery mode (see Step 1.) Select your startup volume, then run Repair Disk. If any problems are found, repeat until clear. If Disk Utility reports that the volume can't be repaired, the drive has malfunctioned and should be replaced. You might choose to tolerate one such malfunction in the life of the drive. In that case, erase the volume and restore from a backup. If the same thing ever happens again, replace the drive immediately.
This is one of the rare situations in which you should also run Repair Permissions, ignoring the false warnings it may produce. Look for the line "Permissions repair complete" at the end of the output. Then reboot as usual.
Step 8
Reinstall the OS. If your Mac was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade.
Step 9
Repeat Step 6, but this time erase the boot volume in Disk Utility before installing. The system should automatically reboot into the Setup Assistant. Follow the prompts to transfer your data from a Time Machine or other backup.
Step 10
This step applies only to older Macs (not current models) that have a logic-board ("PRAM") battery. Both desktop and portable Macs used to have such a battery. The logic-board battery, if there is one, is separate from the main battery of a portable. A dead logic-board battery can cause a boot failure. Typically the failure will be preceded by loss of the settings for the startup disk and system clock. See the user manual for replacement instructions. You may have to take the machine to a service provider to have the battery replaced.
Step 11
If you get this far, you're probably dealing with a hardware fault. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider.
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