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Imac spinning wheel startup upgrade#
Imac spinning wheel startup pro#

I moved from an older Mac Pro to the new iMac Retina and I am not a happy camper. As far as I can tell, you can either run an app that overrides fan control or you can buy an OWC cable that fools the system - I believe that it merely short pins 2 and 7 to turn off this feature.

Imac spinning wheel startup upgrade#

The other issue could be that Apple reads the HD temperature from the drives they support - no support means that the iMac fans will run at 100% all the time. A simple upgrade to your Apple iMac or MacBook can increase it's performance by 400 and make it run like a new model.

The open power/SATA ports are facing the back of the machine and require 90% disassembly to access - as per iFixIt's guide. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated! I went to help a friend with an issue she was having with her:Mid 2011 27' iMac 4GB i5 running OS 10.12.3 (Sierra)She wanted to try Photoshop so I. If you want to add an internal SSD you will have to source the Apple cable - I have yet to find it. iFixIt does not mention this and neither does OWC. There is NO power/SATA cable supporting the 3.5" bay included in the SSD only version of the iMac Retina - you will only get the cable if you order the Fusion drive. So the short answer is if you are in a hurry and want a new iMac retina 5K, go ahead an buy one knowing you can not only upgrade the internal SSD and HD but also access an EVEN FASTER storage solution via the Thunderbolt port. That will give you the best possible performance.better than upgrading to Apple's SSD. This should close the app and get rid of the spinning rainbow wheel. A list of all the apps that you are running will show up. You can throw these PCIe based SSD cards into an external enclosure and access then through the Thunderbolt port. To do this, follow these steps: In the left-hand corner near the top, there should be an Apple icon. You can also upgrade the old HD part of the equation.īut here's the thing. The Retina SSD is PCIe aning, if you want to upgrade the SSD part of the fusion drive, you simply buy a larger PCIeSSD card. I'm not so bright so I didn't understand what PCIe was but now I see it is just a card. I was curious about upgrading the regular hard drive part of the fusion drive. I want to get the standard iMac so I can take delivery today which means getting a 1TB fusion drive. If this answer is acceptable please remember to return and mark it.I sort of answered my own question. If thats the case only someone with a working Mac or an Apple Genius can help you. If you halt this process you can really screw things up (from some of your description you may have already don this).

When fsck reports that your volume is OK, type reboot at the prompt and then press Return.Īt reboot if you see a dark elliptical progress bar that suddenly disappears and/or hear a tone DO NOTHING for a hour.

Important: If this message appears, repeat the fsck command you typed in step 2 until fsck tells you that your volume appears to be OK (first-pass repairs may uncover additional issues, so this is a normal thing that happens). If fsck found issues and has altered, repaired, or fixed anything, it will display this message:

The volume (name_of_volume) appears to be OK.

Once it finishes, it'll display this message if no issue is found: fsck will go through five "phases" and then return information about your disk's use and fragmentation. sbin/fsck -fy (that is a single space between fsck and the -fy) When it does you will see At the some text about /sbin/fsck -fy when the cursor pauses blinking type: (Command-S) It should boot to a black screen with scrolling white text. Try a Single User boot to force file check. You have a virus or corrupt/missing boot file. Right you don't have a HD problem you have an OS problem. I performed the Shift-Command-V during start up and all I see that appears out of the ordinary to me is BootCacheControl: Unable to open /var/db/ylist: 2 No such file or directory I performed the option, command, p, r but same spinning wheel problem persist. I performed the /sbin/fsck -fy twice because it said it modified the system the first time and waited over an hour. In an attempt to figure it out, I created a new user account on my Mac and am able to use Photoshop just fine in that fresh account (which has none of my main accounts plug-ins, backgroudn tasks, auto-tasks, fonts etc). I performed the safe mode start holding shift and 25% along the progress bar the bar disappears and the same spinning wheel problem persist. Spinning wheel on every action since updating to Photoshop 2020 (Mac OSX Catalina) elphinwhite. Now both MacBooks have the same spinning wheel problem. I transferred my old files from my old MacBook to the new MacBook through the migration program. I would reboot to get the programs to work. Then when I attached a file to Outlook that program froze. The problem began when programs started to freeze. I have the newest operating systems in both computers. I bought the new MacBook to replace the 2011 one due to the spinning wheel issue.