I had a problem with my mouse turning my laptop on when I plugged it back in, so I opened the laptop but the screen was black (I was also connected to an external monitor that was also in sleep mode). When I hit my keys and stuff nothing would respond, so I had to force a shutdown. Then when I tried to tun on the computer it got stuck at the white and gray apple screen with the spinning wheel except the wheel was not spinning and the screen was just stuck there. So i did another force reboot and it did the something. So at as of now I am scared and go on my iPhone and see what is wrong. 2 minutes later I turn it on again and it boots up fine. I did 3 restarts and it restarted fine with out any problems all within 30 seconds. So can anyone tell me what might of caused that problem I encountered. I read somewhere that it might be a sign of a bad harddrive or something else.
I also did repair disk permissions and that went through fine.
Should I also try verify disk?
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Yup, and also run the Apple Hardware Test. There is a possibility that it's just caused by some faulty 3rd party driver, though.
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Might want to make a back-up if you've not done so already.
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Yeah, do make a backup. I had the same issues minus the spinning wheel and one day, the graphics card died. So, now I have to wait 3-5 days for it to be repaired...I hope they don't wipe my HDD either.
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Edit the black screen that I mentioned when my i touched by external keyboard and the computer woke up, I was able to replicate the problem and this time I turned on my external monitor and that monitor was ok and was showing my destop it was just my laptop that was black. So i did Gather Screens from the Windows settings and that brought my MBP screen back. So I guess the first time I thought teh screen was black it was just a bug from being woken up in sleep mode when I touched a key on the external keyboard.
OK I did verify disk permissions, repair disk permissions and verify disk and all them came back ok. Verify disk said that the disk seemed to be ok.
I will now try running disk utility. -
Ok I ran apple hardware test and it came back with no problems found.
So I guess this was just a bad application/drivers problem from a forced shutdown.
Is my Hard Drive Dying
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by MKang25, Jul 10, 2009.