Re: MacBook failing or not?

2018-05-20 Thread Ronda Brown
y 2018, at 5:50 pm, Ronda Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Peter, >>>> >>>> That was a great game to watch the Eagles are flying high! >>>> Darling was absolutely brilliant... I thought his kicking leg would fall >>>> off in the final

Re: MacBook failing or not?

2018-05-19 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, I’m not receiving any WAMUG emails?? I checked the wamug archives and have copied & pasted my 1st reply I sent and your response to it below what I now suggest you try... if you are able to... First, quit smcFanControl in the Menu Bar Then as the smcFanControl application is not in Appl

Re: MacBook failing or not?

2018-05-19 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi Ronni, after confirming the backup had completed and while I was out, my son took the Macbook to use and eventually it stopped again, black screen and fan whirring at full speed. I read your previous response and did that. A whole bunch of unintelligible (to me) DOS like information. I scanne

Re: MacBook failing or not?

2018-05-18 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Peter, I would have suggested you had first tried to startup in Safe Mode / Verbose Mode. To get some feedback about what's happening, you choose to start up while holding down Shift, Command and V: that enters both Safe Boot and Verbose Mode, which spits out some messages about what Safe Bo

MacBook failing or not?

2018-05-18 Thread Peter Crisp
HI there, this morning my sons MacBook Pro (late 2011 500GB HDD - Yosemite) was not booting up after many attempts. The progress bar at boot up would not commence progressing. I read a few Google tips and figured I would try Recovery mode which I did then with Disk Utility did a Verify Disk test