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  1. Bentley100

    iMac27 A1312 No signs of life, led 1 blinks twice.

    Hi, I got this iMac to fix and I have been having a really hard time. When I plug it in led 1 blinks twice but never fully turns on, it only does this when I plug it in then it imminently stops. The PSU does make a slight buzzing noise but nothing noticeable. I have replaced the PSU with a newly...
  2. B

    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 2010 does not boot after installing Mojave, GPU GTX 680

    I recently installed EVGA GTX 680 2GB flashed to Mac GPU into Mac Pro 5,1 2010 to upgrade to Mojave. Also due to the original Radeon HD 5770 was failing, and the machine kept reverting back to the login screen. The GTX 680 was working fine in High Sierra, perfectly stable, all ports working etc...
  3. JDane

    Brand New 16inch Macbook Pro Dies after 9 days of use

    Hi! So I bought a new 16 inch Macbook Pro 2019 and received it last week. It’s been working fine and fast until today. All of a sudden while I was editing a video it just died. It wasn’t plugged but the battery was more or less at 60-70%. I tried turning it back on again but it wouldn’t. Even...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 Not Booting

    *URGENTLY NEED HELP ON MY MAC PRO 5, 1* Hello, I bought a 5, 1 quad core 2.8ghz mid 2010 mac pro the other day from a guy on craigslist, but didn’t test it before taking it off his hands because he assured me it was working and had tested it in the morning. When I got home and booted it up, I...
  5. Z

    Found an iPhone 8 and things are pretty weird.

    Recently I found an iPhone 8 and took it home. Tried booting it up and of course it asked me for iCloud account, so I put the phone aside and forgot about it. Today I decided to try and bypass the iCloud, but the iPhone doesn't seem to charge. It's like completely dead. Weirdest part is that...
  6. Mormislaw

    iPod Non-working iPod Classic 5G

    Hello guys! I decided to buy an unknown condition (which always means that it's broken) iPod Classic 5G 80GB. It looks good on the outside, the display has some black lines on the right, no big deal on the inside there's no HDD ribbon, has something that looks like a little bit of rust next to...
  7. C

    My Mac has gone crazy! Help appreciated.

    I was using my 2011 27 inch i7 Imac and the screen suddenly went green! And i had to shut it off with the power button. And now it doesn't boot up anymore! It will start up and display pink bars and start to load but then it will get stuck and then restart. And it will do this until you turn...
  8. M

    Help fix with my 2011 MBP not working after reinstalling MacOS X.

    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...
  9. T

    Late 2011 MBP graphics died

    Recently my Late 2011 MBP AMD graphics chip has died. It will not boot into macOS. It gets about half the Apple logo, then disappears and stays on a white screen. The fans also get really loud and the laptop itself gets really hot. Is there any other possible way to disable the graphics card...
  10. Mac03ForLife

    G5 Twitches, Won't fully boot

    Hello! This is unusual, considering I generally can help most people Anyways I was reconfiguring my workshop last night, and after not booting my PMacG5 for close to 2 months, I decided I would hit the button and see what happens. As it turns out, it clicks, the fans twitch, but it won't get...
  11. W

    Mac Pro booting to orange screen. Is my gfx card dead?

    Hi, About 7 months ago, i bought a 3gb 'Sapphire radeon HD 7950' that had been flashed for mac to replace the Radeon HD 2600 (256mb). It was all working properly until one day i booted it up and it booted to a glitched orange screen with lines on. i waited 3 mins and it didn't do anything. I...
  12. S

    Installed new SSD but won’t boot

    Okay so I have a MacBook Pro (Late 2011) I bought new back in March of 2012. A couple months back it started running very sluggish and acting odd. I had windows installed on it as well and it would flag me saying my hdd was damaged and to backup my files. Eventually my Mac would boot to the logo...
  13. G

    Sceen white and not booting

    My 27" iMac 2.8 gig core duo just now shut down and when restarted only had a white screen. I was opening iTunes when my mac al of a sudden shut down. It tried to restart on its own but indicator bar only went about 70% and a white screen came up. It shut down again and tried to restart again...
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    Cannot Boot/Start Apple PowerBook G4 1.67 - DVD Trying to Access CD/DVD?

    As title Cannot Boot/Start Apple PowerBook G4 1.67 A1139 - DVD Trying to Access CD/DVD? Just happened out of the blue, working one minute and then...DVD stuck in drive. The drive was removed and the DVD was also removed and the DVD drive was replaced. All seemed straight forward until...
  15. jacobpem

    my late 2006 iMac will not boot

    Hello people my intel iMac (white) will not boot when i press the power button the led says on and the fans run at maximum until i force the iMac to turn off i have tried resetting the smc/smu pram nvram etc... Can anybody help? Also i have changed ram and still no luck thanks. Also I'm not...
  16. J

    Short Circuit Start on a Macbook? Anybody tried this?

    Hey everyone, my macbook decided not to come on the past few days, and I found this method on the internet. Has anyone tried this? Cheers!
  17. P

    iBook G3 Corrupted OS X

    I have an iBook G3 with firewire and that is about all I can tell you. When I bought it off of ebay it came running Mac OS 9.2. Stupid me decided that I should take a copy of Mac OS X off of an iMac G3 and copy that to the HDD of the iBook. I then attempted to boot off of the OS X folder I put...