oh no - what happened? folder with a sad face? won't turn on?
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
googling around it seems like airport hoisting itself on its own petard seems to be a pretty common problem. ugh
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, just won't turn on.
― Maria, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that happened to my nano after I tried using some dodgy chinese usb charger with it. did you try holding down the play button/center button for 5 seconds?
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao, you could try deleting all memory of those SSIDs from the system keychain (use keychain access in /Apps/Utilities)
― caek, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, caek. I just trashed my airport prefs file and it seems to be working okay now. but yeah there are a bunch of entries in my keychain too, I'm gonna clear those out just to be safe.
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
when I am br0ed I will do a clean install of SL, I guess.
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's iphone tethering that's fucking things up tbh.
― dyao, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
A few months ago I started getting a screen flicker on my Macbook. I sent it to the depot and they replaced a ton of stuff, but after a week of having it back the screen was starting to flicker again and in a couple weeks the Macbook stopped booting correctly. I'd have to turn it off and on multiple times to get it to boot up. Finally on Tuesday it totally gave up the ghost and I brought it in for a second round of repairs. They said they'd send it back to the depot, but when I check the website or call tech support to check on a repair status they say it's still sitting at the store. Super frustrating.
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
is that a MBP? the screen flickering is a common problem (happens on mine all the time but no other symptoms yet, knock on wood.)
― noted schloar (dyao), Friday, 5 March 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Normal black macbook
― Mordy, Friday, 5 March 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Turned my macbook on this morning and apparently "No airport card is installed". No time to investigate beyond booting from known working backup of hard disk (where the problem is still there). Looking forward to resetting PRAM, running hardware tests from boot CDs, etc. tonight. The best bit is that AppleCare expired 1 month ago.
― caek, Monday, 29 March 2010 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe the physical connection got unseated? I had a disappearing DVD drive that boiled down to an unseated connector. (also found two loose, unaccounted for screws when I opened it. don't have AppleCare. knock on wood)
― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
are you near an apple store?.. go in and speak nicely to one of the geniuses, they have the power to repair it under warranty if they think you are worthy/cute/not an asshole.
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 29 March 2010 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i will give that a shot if the various softwarey fixes suggested online don't work out. and if that doesn't work out i will probably pop the case myself. done it before for other repairs so should be fine (and i can hear the CPU fan needs cleaning anyway). failing THAT i will go to the apple store and try to speak german at them.
― caek, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
none of the pram, smc, taking the battery out nonsense worked. booted from the OS install cd -- still no airport detected, which is pretty definitive. have to assume it's a hardware failure. was expecting this to cost €100, but remarkably a replacement card is €20 so assuming that fixes it (and it's not a subtle hardware problem, e.g. a fucked logic board) this may not actually cost that much. going to take the opportunity to replace the fan.
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
My (intel) iMac suddenly went stone dead last night - like there was a power cut, which there wasn't. Twice I booted it up and it was ok for a while and then failed each time.
Seems fine today - on 3 hours so far without a problem. It's still within Applecare warrantly upto September. Is it worth getting seen to?
― Bob Six, Saturday, 17 April 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
This kind of thing happens to my iMac sometimes, I always suspect it's due to internal overheating, since it usually occurs in the summertime. How's the temperature in the room? If it's happening every single time you start up, I'd send it in, at most you're just wasting some time since you have Applecare.
― Nhex, Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
It's still within Applecare warrantly upto September. Is it worth getting seen to?
yeah dude if it's still covered then have it seen to. that's the point of insurance!
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
UGH
macbook (about 3.5 years old) started shutting down without warning on sat morning - took it into apple store, dude seemed confident that the problem was the hard drive. all important stuff backed up and under warranty so fine. got it back, realised how inconvenient rebuilding your laptop so it's just how i like it is going to be, and then the fucker STARTED SHUTTING DOWN AGAIN. am so livid - really really need to have access to a laptop most days for work, 4 days without was pushing it, and it turns out they didn't even fix the problem? no idea what's going wrong now. it was fine for about 5 hours this morning and then just started shutting down with no warning every 5 minutes. this with a brand new hard drive and, i think, battery. taking it in again this afternoon and this time my mode will be confrontational and possibly furious.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
is it overheating? does it get really hot?
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
it gets hot, but it always does surely? no hotter than it's been getting for the past 3.5 years
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
true - but one possible reason is that accumulated dust/grime is causing it to get so hot that it shuts down automatically. I would maybe download something like smcfancontrol or istatpro and let us know what temperature readings you're getting.
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it's 67˚C atm...
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
seems normal - if it gets above 85-90 it'd be cause for concern...
other than that dunno - suspect it's a faulty logic board but I'm no apple tech.
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah there seems to be a number of things it could be - the connexions betwixt hard drive and rest of computer seems likely. it had a good innings last night when i was just using text edit + google chrome, but the problems started when i was watching youtube clips and using itunes. since my first post here it's actually been fine - i turned itunes off! so it could be that.
what's infuriating is the apple so-called genius being so confident it was the hard drive, and that having no effect at all.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oooh youtube flash video - flash video will peg your cpu at 100% usage and cause your temperature to rise pretty fast. try it out and see!
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i will if i can - have to go to appointment w/apple store now! you may next see me in court, where i will be charged with the actual murder of any/all apple employees i face today
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
it was the fan, apparently. first so-called "genius" bar replaced my hard drive for nothing. are there any reasons that apple employees don't all need to be horse-whipped?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 20 May 2010 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
not that i'm aware of
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha! Great time for a revive. I just ordered a new macbook yesterday morning and when I went to open my 5-year-old ibook last night, i had to take out the battery and press the power button a bunch of times and open and close it a bunch of times in order to get anything. Like it knew I betrayed it.
― ljagljana (kkvgz), Thursday, 20 May 2010 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone had quicktime X fuck up the aspect ratio of a movie? it played fine on vlc but quicktime wanted to squash 2.35:1 to something more like 16:9.
― circles, Saturday, 5 June 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't there a button on the control bar to do that? It formats widescreen movies to fill your screen. You might have clicked it accidentally, though I'm not sure if it remembers the preference.
― Millsner, Saturday, 5 June 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
my macbook air makes a lot of noise when it plays flash. googling revealed that it is the fan that is making noise. also I would have problems with the date not being saved when using the battery so that the date would have to be reset upon restart. so now I don't use the battery unless I have to.
― youn, Sunday, 6 June 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, flash is terrible on osx, often uses 100% cpu, which inevitably turns the fan on.
did you try resetting the SMC for your battery/time issue? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 and while you're at it you could try http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379.
― caek, Sunday, 6 June 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
While ago my Macbook started to crack near where my wrist rests. My Mac-phile cousins told me there was a super-double-secret-extended warranty covering just such an occurrence, and indeed, Apple fixed it for free, replacing/reinforcing where necessary. But now the damned thing is starting to crack again, and it really bugs me.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 June 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yup, I've got that too; haven't got round to taking it in for a fix yet
― idg 77 per cent of SNs (cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i've had that three times. they don't reinforce it. there is no fix. it's a design flaw that was fixed in the unibody macbooks. it's worth getting fixed. you get a brand new keyboard. looks like new!
― caek, Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
So I can get it fixed multiple times, in perpetuity?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
on mine the edges of the wrist rest thing sort of fell off. i don't really care though. also some of my keys are deteriorating! F and C especially, they are bumpy. must be something corrosive about my fingers.
― harbl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
so get a free new keyboard!
yes, you can do it in perpetuity if my experience is anything to go by. they have seen it 1,000,000 times. (although i haven't tried this year, which is four years since i bought it, i.e. out of the usual warranty.)
― caek, Sunday, 6 June 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Apple doesn't replace individual keys out of warranty, though. They tried to sell me on a whole new keyboard for a couple of scuzzed letters, despite no guarantee that the same problem wouldn't happen again.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 June 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks, caek. I will look at those support threads and experiment.
― youn, Monday, 7 June 2010 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
This is starting to get ridiculous:
http://gizmodo.com/5562802/the-latest-examples-of-apples-stupid-editorial-censorship
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 June 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, come on
― Nhex, Monday, 14 June 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
£499 for an unlocked payg phone
any chance the locked-to-network payg phones will be about £50/£70 cheaper?
― cozen, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
new mac minis too, nice
HDMI out, SD reader, the nvidia chipset, and it's tinyhttp://www.apple.com/macmini/
― cozen, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
$699, or £649 in the UK. FFS.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:41 (thirteen years ago) link
it does look nice but when i saw the price tag i balked
― Nhex, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link
17.5% VAT is £113, so there's a £62 premium on that UK price.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link