Questions tagged [hardware]
Matters involving physical computer components, circuitry and parts, as opposed to matters of software or computer programming
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2016 MacBook Pro Touch Bar (A1706) Doesn't Boot When Battery is Plugged In
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro Touch Bar 13" that refuses to charge or boot when the battery is connected (It will boot when plugged into the charger and even with the battery data cable plugged in, ...
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iMac screen shows nothing after replacing hard drive
I replaced the hard drive on my iMac 8,1 (iMac 20-Inch "Core 2 Duo" (Early 2008)) per OWC's instructions with an SSD I had sitting around. I used a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter that would ...
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Wine damage on MacBook Air 13'3 2019 [duplicate]
As the title gives away I spilled a glass of wine on my mac. I turned it head down right a way and dried it. Every thing seemed to work fine until half an hour later i put it in charge. It first kept ...
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Strange "spinning up" like sound coming from Macbook at regular interval, every 5-10 seconds or so
I noticed it a few days ago that whenever my laptop is open/on there is a strange, very brief spin-up sound coming from what seems like the left side. It happens at a very regular interval, about ...
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MacBook Pro - High CPU Under Low Workload
I've got the MacBook Pro 16" 2019 (2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4 GB). Since upgrading to macOS Big Sur, I've been experiencing an issue whereby the system will become ...
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How do I prolong the longevity of my MacBook's internal SSD?
I have a MacBook Pro with a 500GB NVMe internal drive. According to this website, the Samsung 850 Pro is under warranty until 300 TBW for a 512 GB drive. Other sources (less conservatively) report ...
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How do I cover up the color of my macbook?
I have recently gotten a "old" macbook 12" (from 2018) from a family member, unfortunately the color is rose gold. It doesn't look that bad, but I would prefer a darker/space grey color....
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Occasionally getting additional spaces inserted when typing
When typing, after hitting spacebar, I often get an additional space inserted. I haven't seen it happen when using the built-in keyboard, but it happens with two separate external keyboards. As far as ...
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Correct Battery Replacement for Old Macbook Air
Correct Battery Replacement for Old Macbook Air
Hi there, thank you for reading :)
I have a Macbook Air 5,2 (13” mid 2012) that has a battery with over 1062 cycles and a condition of “Replace Now”, ...
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2015 MacBook Pro 15” Cooling fans seem to be spinning in opposite direction?
I just recently placed a new battery and speakers into a 2015 15” MacBook Pro. To do this I had to take out the entire logic board. Obviously, the fans have to be in the correct position as you can ...
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How can I tell if my MacMini 2012 power supply is dead?
I have a Mac Mini late-2012 A1347 that will not power on. I've tried the steps to reset the SMC (unplug-wait 30s-plug-wait 5s) and still nothing happens when I press the power button. No chime, no ...
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MacBook Pro 16” and HDMI splitter not working
I recently purchased several HDMI splitters to use with my MacBook Pro (16"). I was hoping to connect one of them like this:
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MacBook Pro 16&...
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20 Watt charger harmful for the battery of a device?
I'm considering to buy a 20 watt charger for my iOS-devices. Obviously it charges a device two to three times faster then the 5 watt chargers, which I currently use.
I just wonder: Might it reduce the ...
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Recover data from broken iPhone 6
An iPhone is bent and broken and does not turn on:
Apple says that it only offers data recovery through software, not hardware, and several Authorized Service Providers say that they don't do it ...
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6+12 PIN (Macbook Air 2011 - A1370) SSD transfer speeds issues
I upgraded my MacBook Air 2011 (A1370) to a Crucial MX500 SATA SSD with better speeds and would like to give the original APPLE TS128C (128gb) a second life.
I have tried a basic enclosure that does ...
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Are Apple silicon M1 Chip MacBook Air/Pro "laptops" usable on the lap?
I have a work-issued MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) running macOS Catalina, and it's not usable as a laptop, because it runs too hot, making it impossible to hold on the lap for any significant amount of ...
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Speaker transplant between iPhone 6 Plus and 6s Plus
I have an iPhone 6s Plus and looking forward to giving it to my little sister. She complains the speaker is too quiet and that's true. You can barely hear any audio from both the earpiece and the ...
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MFi product look up
I used to check MFi product using mfi.apple.com/MFiWeb/getAPS provided by Apple. It looks like they have turned it off. I would like to know if there is any alternative available?
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Intuos 3 Drivers for Mac OSX Sierra (10.12)
I have an old Wacom Intuos 3 tablet (with pen and mouse) that I occasionally use with my Mac (OS 10.12.6 - Sierra).
I noticed my Wacom Intuos 3 mouse was acting strange (clicks not always being ...
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Is it safe to replace a CPU in MacBook Pro 15” 2018?
My MacBook Pro 15” 2018 stopped working. The CPU model is:
2.6GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.3GHz
I brought it to official Apple Service. They didn’t tell me ...
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How to use an External Display on a MacBook Pro with a cracked built-in-display and without having MacOS installed on it
I have a Macbook Pro (A1425) with a broken display.
Because fixing the display is almost as expensive as a new Macbook he bought a new one and gave me the broken one.
Last thing he was doing with it ...
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No touchbar detected on Macbook Pro 15 2017 after replacing cable
Okay so I don't have an official Apple store in my country and my keyboard and batteries were giving me trouble. During the replacement process, as I was taking out my original keyboard, I slightly ...
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Canned air and Liquid Submersion Indicator (LSI) Macbook
I think this is more a chemistry stack exchange question but I believe being related to a computer it isn't well received there.
Canned air spray is used to clean dusty internal or external components....
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Finder (and Xcode) accessing iDevices while network was off
I am trying to figure out what is wrong with my Mac.
Here are my devices:
iPad (7th generation, MW752LL/A) with iOS 14.01 (18A393)
iPad Air (MD788LL/A) with iOS 12.4.8 (16G201)
iPhone 6 Plus (...
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MacBook Pro 2011 has faulty power button - How do I enable any key or lid open boot settings?
I'm working on an Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" which suffered a little water damage.
After cleaning the system I can get it to turn on by disconnecting the battery, then reconnecting it and ...
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Mac Pro 3,1 Power Up No Chime Nor Boot
My Early 2008 Mac Pro won't boot. Won't do much, actually. This is what I've done:
replaced the power supply
removed DVD player
removed all RAM
removed all video cards (I have a handful of ...
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What is the purpose of this plastic piece inside my MacBook Air?
I have a MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015). The model number is A1466 (EMC 2925).
I recently removed the bottom case (in order to fix my trackpad) and immediately noticed broken plastic pieces inside ...
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MBP water damage diagnosis
I accidentally spilled water on to my 2017 MacBook Pro (Touch bar) (keyboard and trackpad), and because I panicked a bit I used the immediate reboot key (shift+control+option+command+power) instead of ...
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Macbook Pro 15inch mid 2010 won't detect internal hard drive
My mid-2010 Macbook Pro displayed the question mark on boot. I bought a new hard drive (SSD) thinking the hard drive failed (had a SSD in there).
After replacing the SSD, I still had the same question ...
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Bluetooth Explorer removed from Xcode Tools in 12.x?
Apple's Additonal Tools for Xcode package includes a great set of tools that are useful even for non-developers. One of these is Bluetooth Explorer, which, among other things, can help enable the ...
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What type of power cable does the HomePod mini use?
Apple has released a new, smaller version of their speaker: HomePod mini.
One of my complaints with the original HomePod was its use of a proprietary power cable connector, which made it difficult to ...
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Macbook Pro 16 inch CPU clock oscillating and graphics lagging
EDIT 3: It's nothing to do with which GPU the system is using. The thing that seems to be triggering the failures is wifi. If I switch wifi off from the Apple menu then the CPU ramping stops, the ...
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Macbook not detecting all USB keyboard keys
I have a Macbook Pro 2019. I recently purchase the Corsair K68 RGB keyboard which has a common USB Type-A connector. I used OTG for USB A to USB C.
The first time mac detects the new device. Worked ...
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Upgrading RAM, iMac 27'' 2019: Is it better to mix Apple/Crucial modules, or substitute all old modules with new ones?
In an ideal situation, if money is not an issue, what is a better option?
I have an iMac 27" 2019, with 2x16 GB RAM original modules from Apple (2 slots occupied, 2 slots empty). Using the "...
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Installing 2 x 16Gb and 2 x 32Gb on an iMac 27" [duplicate]
Got a 2019 iMac 27" with 4 RAM slots. I have 2 x 16Gb and 2 x 32Gb RAM modules. This is how they are installed right now. Is this the most optimal way to install them, or the sequence does not ...
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Can I format the internal HDD in my iMac if using an external drive for the OS?
I have an iMac Mid 2014, I am looking to use an SSD as an external bootable drive as per this video.
This will result in the old internal drive showing up in finder with the old OS files and therefore ...
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5 Vertical pink lines - Imac 2011 - Won't boot up
My mac was running fine one day then suddenly powered off and tried to restart itself. Upon restart it was stuck with the loading status bar and the screen had 5 vertical pink lines across it.
Having ...
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A1502 trackpad unresponsive and keyboard occasionally erratic
My computer is a mid-2014 retina MacBook Pro.
After five days of sleep, the trackpad stopped responding to touch input, and couldn’t be revived by any number of NVRAM/PRAM/SMC resets. Most recently, ...
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Is Airpod Pro knock-off using H1 Chip?
I got my hands on Chinese Airpod pro knock-off that came with Apple logo and surprisingly same packaging with additional buds.
Also to my surprise they were paired with iphone quite quickly just like ...
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Macbook air 2012, installed new battery, bottom of trackpad sounds loose/clicky now, ideas?
My other one couldn't hold a charge well but didn't look bloated at all to have warped anything in my system.
All that was weird that happened was that I lost one of the bottom case screws (small ones)...
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iPhone 7 has magnetic area next to flashlight
I put my phone down on a table before where I had some nails on and has stuck to my phone.
Does anyone with an iPhone 7 and if so can they see if their phone has a magnet next to the flashlight on the ...
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High kernel_task CPU usage
I have a 2019 15" MBP which has had a string of issues, but is passing all hardware tests when serviced at the Genius Bar:
November 2019–March 2020
Mac freezes daily, usually towards the end of ...
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Unusable Macbook pro screen
My Macbook screen has started flickering and is unusable:
I've tried restarting but does not fix. It seems to be isolated to the Macbook screen as an external monitor still works. It was not dropped ...
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Macbook pro 2011 Late cannot enable dGPU again
I'm struggling with some problem involved with enable dGPU AMD Radeon. To the needs of installation MacOS Catalina I had to disable discrete graphics card. I reboot into recovery mode and used command
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How does a generic bluetooth mouse / keyboard work with macos without installing any driver?
Some generic brand bluetooth keyboard / mouse work fine on macos. Does macos have a built-in common driver api (for mouse and keyboard) that all these device use or is it some specification in the ...
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Finding a drive adapter to re-use the old hard drive from a Macbook Pro early 2015 13"
I recently upgraded the hard-drive on my Macbook Pro 13" early 2015 model. I'd like to use the old 128gb hard-drive as an external USB disk, but I'm having trouble finding the adapter to make it ...
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Fresh battery replacement already showing degradation
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 15 inch running MacOS Catalina (10.15.6) which had the top case (battery) replaced in July 2020 due to significant battery degredation over the 1 year I had owned it. The ...
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My Mac machine is extremely slow all of sudden? [closed]
It was functioning very well until all of a sudden it went extremely slow, I still had a good size of hard disk space and to top it off I reset, wiped out entire disk and reinstalled the OS, even ...
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MacBook Pro 13” mid-2012 iSight cable port broken
I accidentally ripped the iSight display port away from the motherboard on my MacBook Pro during a display replacement. I’m fine with working without a camera since the quality is bad anyway. The ...
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Mac Pro Wired keyboard sending garbage
Mac Pro 2010. Keyboard in use since beginning.
No problems for a decade.
I've had keyboard failures before, but usually they fall into the following categories:
Doesn't work at all.
One key doesn't ...
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