Another MacBook Pro Crash…
How many times has my macBook pro crashed on me since I bought it? I don’t even keep count anymore. The main cause of crashes is sleepmode. Often when I close the MacBooks lid and then open it up again a few minutes I notice it has crashed on me but is almost restarted already. I’m a compulsive saver so I don’t lose that much work and fortunately Firefox simple restores all my sessions so most of the time it doesn’t even bother me that much.
But todays crash more resembles the famous Paris MacBook Pro Blackout of 2006 during Le Web 3. I opened the MacBook Pro which woke it up. But then, instead of immedialty entering my password, I let it sit there for a few minutes. Stupid!
After a few minutes I tried to wake it up again. This time it sort of woke up but all I got was a pitch black screen with only a cursor, which I could move arround. No login screen or anything. And no matter what I did it wouldn’t give me any other data. Escape, return, Command dot. Nothing. Just a system beep on every key I entered.
After a few minutes I decided to just restart the damn thing. And yes, now it won’t do anything anymore. Just like in paris. I’m staring at a blue screen again…
Luckily I now keep a Tiny Troubleshooting Guide from CreativeTechs in my Tumi which I can consult and I’m trying to restart with every combination of keys they are giving me. Oh, and the reason I was waking it from sleep was because I was about to make my monthly back-up.
UPDATE: I have tried EVERY shortcut and possible fix I could find. No luck. And I can’t find my start-up DVD anywhere. I restarted in Target Disk mode and checked the disk from a Powerbook. No problems found. My guess is that the System is corrupted and needs to be re-installed. But I can’t do that without the start-up DVD. Damn.
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sleep mode on the intel macs is borked for a lot of people appearently. same as it is for lots of pc laptops i guess.
one solution that seems to work well is to run applejack once in a while and especially after a crash. cleans up all the crap.
http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
good luck.
“After a few minutes I tried to wake it up again. This time it sort of woke up but all I got was a pitch black screen with only a cursor, which I could move arround. No login screen or anything.”
I have that sometimes. Not too often but it bugs me.
Thanks guys. I’ll check the AppleJack stuff…
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Just had my first mayor Mac crash in one and a half year. Thanks to the troubleshooting guide and the following backup I can breath again. Sorry I have a ‘old’ ibook so can’t help you out with the cd.
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