This is about my daughter's '08 or '09 MacBook, which is running Snow Leopard. In her apartment the Mac will start up run apps like MS Office or play a DVD. But will not connect to the internet. She gets the pinwheel of death. Meanwhile, her roommate's PC laptop works fine.
But, at her local library and when she comes home to my house her Mac works fine.
We're thinking it's the Internet connection at her place or the cable company supplied router, but it is a weird situation. Her computer is old enough (late '08 or early '09) that she has limited upgrade options for the OS and she can't afford a newer model. And this is clearly a local problem.
Her hard drive checks out fine, I've reset all the permissions, but those make no difference. I have a spare Apple Express router but it's 12 hours away at our second home, so not an option.
Ideas? Thoughts?
TIA
Noley
But, at her local library and when she comes home to my house her Mac works fine.
We're thinking it's the Internet connection at her place or the cable company supplied router, but it is a weird situation. Her computer is old enough (late '08 or early '09) that she has limited upgrade options for the OS and she can't afford a newer model. And this is clearly a local problem.
Her hard drive checks out fine, I've reset all the permissions, but those make no difference. I have a spare Apple Express router but it's 12 hours away at our second home, so not an option.
Ideas? Thoughts?
TIA
Noley