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Mac Broken?
- Thread starter Danny133
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banther
ClioSport Club Member
Hard drive shattered?
The reading arm goes through my hard disk about once a year.
The reading arm goes through my hard disk about once a year.
banther
ClioSport Club Member
Obviously not then!
Tom
ClioSport Club Member
i3
Presumably you've tried cmd r on boot?
182 Trophy #333
I'd see if you can test the RAM
182 Trophy #333
I've seen many a Mac startup and fail to boot / Spinny wheel and its been the RAM at fault, same as with a windows PC if the rams at fault it can successfully boot windows and will randomly BSOD, depends if its the entire RAM module or just one of the chips!
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Haven't older SSD's got pretty bad failure rates? Been time machining?
Jack!
ClioSport Club Member
Were you doing anything last time you used it?
I have a fair bit of experience messing around with Bootloaders etc, and the constant spinning wheel in my experience is often down to missing strings in the boot.plist, if you could get past the spinning wheel you may be able to mess around with/restore your old .plist?
I would download iBoot and use that to try and get past the spinning wheel.
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html
My experience comes from many installs of OS X onto PC's, but I'm assuming iBoot will work for Mac's as well as PC's, given that it is Apple's own "Recovery Mode" bootloader as detailed here: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IBoot_(Bootloader) and here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iboot/
EDIT: Failing all that, it's probably a hardware compatibility issue, but again you won't really be able to resolve it without getting past the spinning circle.
I have a fair bit of experience messing around with Bootloaders etc, and the constant spinning wheel in my experience is often down to missing strings in the boot.plist, if you could get past the spinning wheel you may be able to mess around with/restore your old .plist?
I would download iBoot and use that to try and get past the spinning wheel.
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html
My experience comes from many installs of OS X onto PC's, but I'm assuming iBoot will work for Mac's as well as PC's, given that it is Apple's own "Recovery Mode" bootloader as detailed here: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/IBoot_(Bootloader) and here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iboot/
EDIT: Failing all that, it's probably a hardware compatibility issue, but again you won't really be able to resolve it without getting past the spinning circle.
Hold CMD+V, it will boot into verbose mode. Might give you an indication of where it is pausing on.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1492
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1492
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182 Trophy #333
Sounds like that SSD is dying!!
182 Trophy #333
Have a Google, I'm sure there's a memtest for Mac if not a built in way of testing the RAM, sorry I don't work on macs as much as I do windows machines so I'm a bit vague!
