Matters involving physical computer components, circuitry and parts, as opposed to matters of software or computer programming
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Adjusting brightness on 27" iMac used as external DisplayPort monitor for PC
I have a Windows7 64-bit machine attached to a 27" iMac as an external displayport monitor It's working well, except I cannot adjust the brightness.
I have attached a Mac keyboard both on the Mac ...
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Diagnosing Unrecognized Hard drives
I have a macbook pro 13 late 2011. My setup: i have a HDD in the main bay for my files, and a SSD in the optibay with the OS on. The other day i received the message randomly out of the blue which ...
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Connecting a displayport monitor to my Mac Mini (late 2012) using the Thunderbolt port what is the max resolution?
I have a 27" ASUS PB278Q display equipped with a display port, the monitor has a resolution of 2560x1440.
If I connect to my thunderbolt port using a mini displayport to displayport cable will it ...
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What would be most common cause of hardware failure on a MBP?
I have a MBP 13" from 2009 (5,5).
I use it a lot, it's on most of the time (but not all the time).
An apple care employee told me he hasn't seen many hard-disk failures, but isn't it the first piece ...
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MacBook Pro hard drive problems: Can it be hard drive cable?
My MacBook Pro 2009, (13inch, snow leopard), does not boot into OsX. I also have bootcamp windows, and I can boot into windows with no problem.
I pressed the D key while starting and made a Apple ...
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USB Port of Macbook frequently stop working
One of the two USB ports of my Macbook Pro stop working frequently.
Once I reboot the computer, then two USB ports work well.
But one of them (always the same one makes the problem) stops working.
I ...
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Xserve shuts itself off and boots at will
Okay, there's a lot of smart Mac guys here, so lets see if any of you can figure out this stumper.
Our Xserve G4 (RackMac1,1) went incommunicado a few years ago was left in this state until I pulled ...
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Why is the % saved only displayed for some refurbished products?
I was browsing the listing for the refurbished iMacs and noticed that some of the items explicitly state how much is being saved while others do not. While it is easy to calculate the savings ...
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Late-2007 Mac Mini (A1176) Unsoldered Mystery Connector on Interconnect Board
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever done a thorough probe/exploration of the interconnect board in late-2007 Mac Minis. I'm specifically curious about the 14 unsoldered pads on the back of the board ...
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MBAir wifi hardware not installed
I posted this question over at the Apple Support forums a couple days ago, but I haven't gotten an answer yet so I'll also post it here.
Ever since I bought my 11' mid-2011 MBA I have issues with ...
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Making a micro MacBook Air (headless)
Here's a project I've been desiring for a while. Hopefully this is not too off topic.
I'd like to take a MacBook Air, remove the case, screen, battery, speakers, keyboard, basically everything. I ...
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Any suggestions to get an Audio CD to load
I just purchased four albums with a total of 6 CDs. Four of the CDs work just fine. Two of them will not load on both of my laptops. When I push them into the CD slot, I hear the drive spin up and ...
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windows can't read my HDD installed in my dvd slot on MBP
I've swapped my dvd drive with an HDD drive on my MBP 2008 non-unibody.
I can read it from MAC os but not from Windows.
I did configure it to be PC compatible...
Anyone knows why it's not seen as an ...
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MacBook not recognising internal drives (HD and SSD)
A week ago my MacBook crashed. When booting, a folder with a question mark showed up on my screen indicating severe trouble. I tried holding the Opt key while booting, but the Mac would not recognize ...
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iPhone 4 restart when the lock button is broken
My iPhone 4 suddenly just crashed and turned itself off - without any Message. I've tried to plug it in to my PC, but I can't get my iPhone to power up. The Apple logo appears for about 3 seconds, and ...
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Macbook Pro 2011 Heat Problems
This is more a general enquiry into whether I should be concerned, but I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 13" and over the last week and a half I have noticed the left side of the case (power point, QWE keys ...
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Macbook pro 13 2012 (HD4000) 8GB(1600 Mhz) single RAM stick issue
I have a Apple Macbook Pro 13" 2012 IvyBridge HD4000 Model which came with
2GB x 2GB RAM.
I Recently bought a single stick of 8GB RAM 1600Mhz (which is compatible).
Gskill 8GB DDR3 FA-1600C11S-8GSQ ...
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2nd gen iPod Touch with a faulty screen, home button, or both?
I have an 2nd gen iPod Touch which has something wrong with it. The screen does not work unless I hold both the Sleep and Home button for a few seconds. The screen then lights up as normal and I could ...
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MacPro 3,1 (2008) logic board SAS connector: Has anyone “replaced” the stock hard drive backplane?
I have a lightly hot-rodded, early 2008 MacPro 3,1. Boots from an SSD mounted in the lower optical bay and attached to the second optical SATA port. Each of the four internal drive bays hosts a 3TB ...
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Is it possible to mount a hard drive to the back of a cinema display?
I'm looking for a way to mount a Thunderbolt Hard Drive to the back of a Cinema Display. I remember seeing a way for a hard drive to be mounted to the original monitor stand, but I am using this ...
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Apple hardware connectivity
What licenses are required to connect and communicate over a non-Apple hardware to and from iPad/iPhone?
I have non-apple hardware which I want to connect to iPad and communicate with it by writing a ...
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The keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook Pro 3,1 stopped working. How to solve this problem?
The keyboard and trackpad on my macbook pro 3.1 stopped working after having frozen the operating system and reboot.
On my Mac I have Windows installed BootCamp and neither does the keyboard and ...
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Will this hard drive work with my 2009 15 macbook pro unibody?
Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA 3 GB/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Internal Bulk/OEM 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive
i need to know if this hard drive will work with my computer?
I have 8 GB of ...
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OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. What do I need to exclude?
OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. (It won't boot.)
What do I need to exclude?
I've been able to compress large parts of it, but then I had to restore after I compressed ...
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Is there any neglible impact on USB read/write speeds using MBR/NTFS vs. GPT/HFS+ in OSX?
I have a 3 TB External Hard-drive, however, it was previously used with a Windows desktop and uses an MBR partition table and the single partition is using NTFS. As a result, I've been using various ...
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Are Macbook Pro pre Unibody topcase parts are interchangeable?
I have a question for service engineers here.
I wonder if I can source topcase (with keyboard) from any pre unibody MBP for my beaten and torn A1150 one (Core Duo original MBP)
Thank you in advance.
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The audio jack of my iPhone keeps cutting out
When I'm trying to listen to something on my iPhone, the audio keeps cutting out. I've had this problem quite a bit lately and there seems to be a sweet spot where it doesn't cut out.
It also means ...
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My internal hard disk is 0 byte and a flashing question mark
I have been striving to bring my laptop to life,
however, I am seeing a flashing question mark on my MacbookPro screen.
I tried disk utility and it is just showing me Media and it is 0 byte.
I ran ...
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What's causing this purple banding on video shot with my iPhone 5?
I shot my first two video with an iPhone 5 last weekend, and both suffered from the same flash of purple banding you can see in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLWJKDj1fE
I've tried ...
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DVD drive makes a horrible rattling noise
Whenever there's a disc in the DVD drive in my Mac, it makes a horrible rattling noise.
Besides replacing the whole drive, is there anything I can/should do to fix it?
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Mac Mini won't start
I got a 2007 Mac Mini off eBay a year ago. Now it won't start. It will show the Apple logo and then when it gets to the blue screen where it would normally show the desktop, the DVI cuts out.
I have ...
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Is the sixth-gen iPod classic compatible with recent Sony Dockstations?
I have a 6th-gen iPod classic (the first model classic) with an 80 GB hard drive. I have recently purchased a Sony Dockstation for iPods but I cannot make it work. Every time it connects to the dock, ...
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Macbook Air backlight occasionally powering off
Started a few months ago, and it's definitely not to do with sleep mode as I've checked but my MBA will drop the backlight then shut the screen off completely. Never had anything spilt on it, seems to ...
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External accessory framework test hardware
I need to write an app for a client the uses the ExternalAccessory framework to communicate with some hardware, I read in 'External Accessory Programming Exercises' by Norman McEntire that the ...
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MacBook Pro: Strange crashes
I purchased a new 13" MacBook Pro about a month ago. I'm pretty happy with it for the most part, but I've been having a few issues which I find very worrisome. I'm a computer science student, but my ...
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Restore 200mb EFI Partition/Write Support for WIN7 HFS+
So I posted earlier about recovoring an HFS+ partition on Windows.
I used Testdisk with awesome success.
Now I've run into another issue. The biggest issue is that I need to read AND write to my ...
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What determines the model name displayed in System Information compared to the model number?
I've just purchased a used Mac Pro that was sold to me as a "5,1" model, which according to everymac.com and Apple's support site, should be a Mid 2010 Mac Pro. However the model display in System ...
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27" 2009 iMac screen occasionally freezes (mouse still moves) after upgrading RAM and SSD
I have a 2009 iMac that has been working fine (but slowly) until now. I decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500 GB Intel SSD (MZ-7TD500BW) and put in 16 GB of RAM (PNY Optima PC3-8500). I've ...
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Black Screen after installing RAM in MacBook (early 2008)
I've tried installing 2 x 2gb DDR2 PC2-6400 modules into an early 2008 MacBook. After installation the machine booted into a black screen, with no chime.
I tried reseating the RAM, same problem. I ...
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Dell monitor connected to MBA 2011 (HD3000) - It judders slightly
I've connected the Dell U3011 monitor to my MacBook Air via DisplayPort to MDP cable.
Everything is fine, and the screen looks good. But: The "OS X motions" are not as smooth as on the MacBook ...
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Spilled Milk on my Macbook Air
I spilled milk on my MacBook Air about 2 months ago. I just took out the SSD and it works fine, though my macbook is still malfunctioning. (It doesn't start.). What potential issues do I have? I know ...
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iPhone 3Gs doesn't restore with a hardware error of -1
My iPhone 3GS doesn't restore and gives a hardware error of -1. The problems started when installing iOS 6 during a cloud backup.
I took it to the Genius Bar and they couldn't help, except offer a ...
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2011 MacBook Pro really slow, after mild keyboard shock
I installed Mountain Lion two days ago with no problems except that my 2011 13" MacBook Pro was a bit slower. Yesterday night there was a little shock on the keyboard at which point the system froze. ...
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Time Capsule internal drive is slow
I have a one-terabyte Time Capsule (third generation, 802.11n) that's served me well since I got it a few years ago (I don't remember exactly when). I use it mostly as the primary router in my home ...
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Logitech T650 Touchpad on 10.7
Is it possible to get the Logitech T650 Touchpad running on Lion?
Logitech forums state that it is not currently supported. But I have hope that there may be a work around as when I plug it in it the ...
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Mountain Lion screen crashes after returning from sleep
During the past 3 days I have experienced the following issue: when returning from sleep, I see an extremely garbled version of my desktop. The only thing that seems to help is a reboot.
My first ...
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iMac goes incommunicado at night
I bought a new iMac at work to use as a development / CI server. Every morning when I get back to the office, it's incommunicado. It seems like it just turned off (doesn't wake up from bluetooth ...
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Stripes & checkerboard pattern on MacBook Pro monitor
I am trying to fix a MacBook Pro (one of the earliest Intel processor models) that spontaneously gets into a state where stripes would appear in a checkerboard pattern all over the display. Please see ...
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Apply to MFi Program
I'm getting serious to apply into the MFi program. I have an specific device in mind, have selected the components and even get a prototype working against a computer.
I want to extend the support of ...
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Why am I getting a BSOD when resuming Windows 7 x64 on my SSD with AHCI?
I recently got an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD for my Spring 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and am having issues getting AHCI working reliably under Windows 7 x64 in Boot Camp. Following the instructions outlined here I've ...
