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MacBook Pro - Interface seems frozen
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1512033" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>That is HIGHLY unlikely.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This alone is a pretty major clue. You likely have a hardware problem of some sort. It could even be the drive and if that's the case, reinstalling the OS would just worsen the matter. I hope you have backups!!!</p><p></p><p>If you insist on reinstalling, I would install it to an external drive and boot off that to see if that works. If a clean install does boot fine off an external drive, then make sure you first recover and secure anything important before trying to reinstall to the internal drive.</p><p></p><p>That all said, I agree with Raz0r that you really should get this thing to Apple if it's under warranty. OS X just doesn't go belly-up that easily and the likelihood of you having malware is "virtually" nonexistent. A transient hardware failure is the most likely culprit, especially since it "sometimes" works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1512033, member: 38864"] That is HIGHLY unlikely. This alone is a pretty major clue. You likely have a hardware problem of some sort. It could even be the drive and if that's the case, reinstalling the OS would just worsen the matter. I hope you have backups!!! If you insist on reinstalling, I would install it to an external drive and boot off that to see if that works. If a clean install does boot fine off an external drive, then make sure you first recover and secure anything important before trying to reinstall to the internal drive. That all said, I agree with Raz0r that you really should get this thing to Apple if it's under warranty. OS X just doesn't go belly-up that easily and the likelihood of you having malware is "virtually" nonexistent. A transient hardware failure is the most likely culprit, especially since it "sometimes" works. [/QUOTE]
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