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Problem with MBA snow leopard - working good btwn "sleeps" but crashes after shutdown
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<blockquote data-quote="Manilo" data-source="post: 1270102" data-attributes="member: 208759"><p>Hi everyone, a few week ago I bought my wife a MBA, model A1237 (I think is an old one), with a 80 GB Hd (no SSD).</p><p></p><p>After a few days of working (it's used not brand new), when I shut down the mac and then turned it on again, the spinning circle took forever and never booted up to the osx.</p><p></p><p>So, i forced the shutdown (hold pressed the button) and booted with the option key, selected the partition on the HD that has the dvd installation of snow leopard, and make a new installation.</p><p></p><p>It booted up fine, worked ok. I left it sleeping a few days (using it) and then again, after I installed some apps, I had to restart it and another time it never booted up.</p><p></p><p>I entered the disk utility booting into the dvd partition, but could not repair the disk with this, so again a new installation, what a pain....</p><p></p><p>This happened once again, so I am becoming an expert at installing snow leopard <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>I thought that maybe the memory modules where failing, so I downloaded memtest and run it at boot, twice, but everything is ok.</p><p></p><p>I am guessing maybe the HD is bad??</p><p>Any suggestions? Where to look for this failure?</p><p></p><p>Any help appreciated,</p><p></p><p>Regards</p><p>MANILO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manilo, post: 1270102, member: 208759"] Hi everyone, a few week ago I bought my wife a MBA, model A1237 (I think is an old one), with a 80 GB Hd (no SSD). After a few days of working (it's used not brand new), when I shut down the mac and then turned it on again, the spinning circle took forever and never booted up to the osx. So, i forced the shutdown (hold pressed the button) and booted with the option key, selected the partition on the HD that has the dvd installation of snow leopard, and make a new installation. It booted up fine, worked ok. I left it sleeping a few days (using it) and then again, after I installed some apps, I had to restart it and another time it never booted up. I entered the disk utility booting into the dvd partition, but could not repair the disk with this, so again a new installation, what a pain.... This happened once again, so I am becoming an expert at installing snow leopard :P I thought that maybe the memory modules where failing, so I downloaded memtest and run it at boot, twice, but everything is ok. I am guessing maybe the HD is bad?? Any suggestions? Where to look for this failure? Any help appreciated, Regards MANILO [/QUOTE]
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