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Card reader won't read - and in general a year later and NOT impressed with MAC
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1024576" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>It's interesting that you have had so many issues with your machine. It almost makes me think that you may have an underlying hardware problem.</p><p></p><p>I think what I would do first is to run the Apple Hardware Test:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081" target="_blank">Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test</a></p><p></p><p>And if that comes up clean, I would run the SMART Utility to test the disk (AHT is not always comprehensive with the HDD):</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/smartutility.html" target="_blank">Apple - Downloads - System/Disk Utilities - SMART Utility</a></p><p></p><p>And if everything comes out clean with that, take a look at this guide:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/93819-basic-os-x-mac-troubleshooting.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/93819-basic-os-x-mac-troubleshooting.html</a></p><p></p><p>It starts out extremely basic, but gets into a lot of disk maintenance and repair that may help with your general lack of reliability.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1024576, member: 24098"] It's interesting that you have had so many issues with your machine. It almost makes me think that you may have an underlying hardware problem. I think what I would do first is to run the Apple Hardware Test: [url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081]Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test[/url] And if that comes up clean, I would run the SMART Utility to test the disk (AHT is not always comprehensive with the HDD): [url=http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/smartutility.html]Apple - Downloads - System/Disk Utilities - SMART Utility[/url] And if everything comes out clean with that, take a look at this guide: [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/93819-basic-os-x-mac-troubleshooting.html[/url] It starts out extremely basic, but gets into a lot of disk maintenance and repair that may help with your general lack of reliability. [/QUOTE]
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