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Advice for MacBook Pro problem?
January 28, 2012 at 4:55 pm
So for some reason my MacBook Pro has decided to mess with me and is freezing almost as soon as I log in. It boots fine, loads the OS ok, but once I log in it freezes.
I managed to get a (very very very slow) SSH connection to it, and the Dock was eating up 80% of the processing power. Killing it does nothing since it just spawns a new process.
Suggestions most welcome.
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RE: Advice for MacBook Pro problem?
January 28, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Already tried that. Unfortunately I only have a small vial of Steve Jobs' tears so I don't want to use them all up on one thing.
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RE: Advice for MacBook Pro problem?
January 28, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Oh dear, you have made a mistake. It is his semen you need.
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RE: Advice for MacBook Pro problem?
January 28, 2012 at 8:40 pm
(January 28, 2012 at 4:55 pm)Tiberius Wrote: So for some reason my MacBook Pro has decided to mess with me and is freezing almost as soon as I log in. It boots fine, loads the OS ok, but once I log in it freezes.
I managed to get a (very very very slow) SSH connection to it, and the Dock was eating up 80% of the processing power. Killing it does nothing since it just spawns a new process.
Suggestions most welcome.
My mom's old, old G4 iMac was doing something similar a while back. I had to start it up while holding a button down (apple key?) to get it in it's recovery / repair mode. From there I rebuilt the permissions & scanned the hard disk. Seemed to fix it.
Of course it was a G4, may be completely different issue for an Intel Mac.
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RE: Advice for MacBook Pro problem?
February 2, 2012 at 11:49 am
(February 1, 2012 at 7:20 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Rebuilding permissions helped. Thanks 
Cool deal.
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