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Hi all, my niece's 2012 MacBook Air has gone as dead a dodo. When powering on, after 2 seconds the startup-chime sounds, followed immediately by a grey screen, then nothing. It just stays on the grey screen indefinitely. I've tried resetting NVRAM, resetting the SMC, going in to recovery mode...

I have an iMac 27" 2020 since the release and for weeks now the device kept crashing randomly. After resetting and everything, I went to the Apple store to try and fix it. I got it back today, they said that they removed the 2 rams I've installed on top of the base ones, back in 2020, and it's...

I've been trying desperately to get my 4,1 (firmware updated to 5,1) to boot back into High Sierra. Before making upgrades, my Mac Pro ran fine. I'm running a single Xeon X5675, and I upgraded from 16gb of 1033mhz RAM to 32gb of 1333mhz, as well as swapping out the default Nvidia GT 120 for an...

Hi there, I have acquired some iMacs from 2009 which have had windows 7 put on them for whatever reason. I'm trying to get macOS back on them but whenever I boot them up (current OS is corrupted btw) I get a blank grey screen followed by the PC style 'No boot device available press enter to...

Hi guys! I got an old MacBook Air late 2011 and I installed High Sierra 10.13.6 on it, works fine though but every time I power on or restart the machine I get a Grey login screen like in the photos i stead of a normal login screen, what can it be? The machine works fine overall but it kinda...

Hi, recently my MacBook fails to boot into the OS. I have replaced my HDD with an SSD and tried it with other macs and it has worked so when I put the SSD into my mac. The apple loading bar gets to 75% of completion on the bar then everything disappears and there is just a grey screen and after...

2011 MBP AMD GPU died. Found this page and tried the steps but couldn’t fix it. Followed the codings on there but don’t know what I’m doing really. But I figured out along the many tries that if I go to single-user mode and enter the code below it would put my MBP into Integrated Graphics...

Hello Everyone, I want to sell my Mac Book Pro 7,1 (Intel Core Duo 2.4 GHz). To this end, I want to wipe it up and perform a clean OS X 10.6.8 install. I have the original Snow Leppy DVD, which I know is fine because I've tested it on another rig. Now this Mac Book Pro has been souped up with...

hi My MacBook Pro will not start up. It is stuck on the progress bar screen. I havde done the following: -reset PRAM -Reset SMC -tried to start in safe mode (stil stuck) -booted in recovery mode and run disk util on startup disk - all checks good. What can I do and what is the problem? Hope...

SYSTEM: Late 2011 MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X High Sierra beta Dual hard drives (1x SSD in main bay, 1x HDD in CD bay) PROBLEM: Can't boot past grey screen. Gets halfway through apple/progress bar screen (as above), then goes ALL grey and stays there. Might be connected to beta as...

Hi all, Hope you can help. I've got an iMac (27" Mid 2011) running Sierra. A week ago, i turned it on and was welcomed by the apple logo then half way through i got a grey screen which darkened slightly and just stayed like that. I tried everything to the best of my knowledge.. PRAM Reset...

I purchased a New HDD for my G5 and went to install OS X Lepoard from a disk onto the system. I hold C to boot from CD but all I get is a grey screen and the fans gradually get very fast and loud. If I do not hold C it comes up with a folder with a ? in it. Can someone help me with this?

A few days ago I obtained a Mac Mini 2011 (A1347) working with latest MacOS Sierra. I decided to swap out the drive with a Samsung Evo to get performance gains over slower 2.5" standard HDD. I decided against cloning the drive and went with a new install, instead I used a USB drive flashed with...

Hi everybody , my macbook pro 2011 stoped working today , I was opening a page with my browser and suddenly I got a white screen . I turn off the computer then boot it again but I always got a grey screen . Then I try with the recovery screen ( comd-r ) , I also try reboot from an external back...

Hello, I have an early 13" 2011 MacBook Pro. It had OS X Lion when purchasing. Two years later I upgraded it to OSX Mavericks. I recently did a CLEAN install of El Capitan. Wiped my HD and installed El Capitan. I did it with a bootable USB flash drive. The installation went fine. All through...

Hello all, **Lots of detail below. At the end is a TL;DR if you'd like to skip to that. TIA.** A week ago I noticed my 2011 MBP (Mountain Lion) was acting sluggish, slow to respond with static on one of the windows (when I opened it up and logged in, the first program on the screen would...

hi I was trying to help my aunt with late 2009 MacBook. She got from ubid website listed as a refurb. Anyway she couldn't make any changes because last admin never cleared password. I did some research and took me into single mode with black and white screen. Had me do some sbin fsck -fy stuff...