Hi guys,
I bought a macbook laptop off of craigslist a few months ago and lately, I've been running into some pretty serious issues. I got it for a good price, but unfortunately the seller didn't give me anything besides the computer itself. More specifically, an operating system/repair CD.
I'd like to check and repair my permissions, but since I don't have the CD it's not really an option. This might be a dumb question, but would it be possible to repair my computer (OSX Leopard) with my friends OSX Lion CD safely? (becomes a Leopon? lol) but seriously, I don't know anyone with a Leopard CD at the moment and I need to have it fixed soon for school. I just want to repair my computer and have it function correctly. I'm not talking about upgrading Leopard to Lion.
My computer specs :
Mac OS X 10.5.8, 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Here are my computer symptoms if you have any ideas :
1.) Disk Utilities won't open. When I try to, I see the icon jump up and down on the dock but then it disappears.
2.) Software updates don't work. When I go to Apple>Software Update... the loading bar freezes about 1/3 of the way through and never finishes.
3.) I have trouble installing programs. When trying to mount a .dmg, I'm sometimes met with an "Input/output error" message. I noticed it happens mostly with large programs. (e.g. Adobe Illustrator and After Effects from Adobe.com)
In the case that I am able to mount a .dmg and open the installer, the buttons (e.g. Go Back, Continue) are often grayed out thus making it impossible to install (e.g. with Mac's Wireless Mouse Software Update)
4.) It randomly becomes very slow. Even when only one program is open it can feel very sluggish at times. Usually a fresh restart fixes it.
That's all I can think of at the top of my head.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
-SW
I bought a macbook laptop off of craigslist a few months ago and lately, I've been running into some pretty serious issues. I got it for a good price, but unfortunately the seller didn't give me anything besides the computer itself. More specifically, an operating system/repair CD.
I'd like to check and repair my permissions, but since I don't have the CD it's not really an option. This might be a dumb question, but would it be possible to repair my computer (OSX Leopard) with my friends OSX Lion CD safely? (becomes a Leopon? lol) but seriously, I don't know anyone with a Leopard CD at the moment and I need to have it fixed soon for school. I just want to repair my computer and have it function correctly. I'm not talking about upgrading Leopard to Lion.
My computer specs :
Mac OS X 10.5.8, 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Here are my computer symptoms if you have any ideas :
1.) Disk Utilities won't open. When I try to, I see the icon jump up and down on the dock but then it disappears.
2.) Software updates don't work. When I go to Apple>Software Update... the loading bar freezes about 1/3 of the way through and never finishes.
3.) I have trouble installing programs. When trying to mount a .dmg, I'm sometimes met with an "Input/output error" message. I noticed it happens mostly with large programs. (e.g. Adobe Illustrator and After Effects from Adobe.com)
In the case that I am able to mount a .dmg and open the installer, the buttons (e.g. Go Back, Continue) are often grayed out thus making it impossible to install (e.g. with Mac's Wireless Mouse Software Update)
4.) It randomly becomes very slow. Even when only one program is open it can feel very sluggish at times. Usually a fresh restart fixes it.
That's all I can think of at the top of my head.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
-SW