Comments on: My Mac is frozen (Spinning pinwheel of death)

By: Tawnypuppi

Tawnypuppi — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:47:00 +0000

I love you! My screen was frozen too, and it works! THANK
YOU!!

By: Gatorluv2dance

Gatorluv2dance — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:24:00 +0000

ok so I have had my macbook pro for all of about 24 hours and I closed everything log out and closed the lap top. I go to open it again and turn on the computer and all I get is a black screen and the spinning wheel I have tryed all the above and nothing just a black screen with the spinning wheel. Help please???

By: Brent Spore

Brent Spore — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:33:00 +0000

Virus Scan? What virus software are you running? I see a W32 in that message. That looks like a windows virus to me.

Does it ask you to clear the virus?

By: Renzo

Renzo — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:05:00 +0000

can someone help me i have a macbook and I was shopping for fridges and all of a sudden me screen went into this virus scan and I’m scared to do anything because everytime I ask to quit it asks me if I say ok it will crash so I just keep hitting cancel . My screen look like a windows screen and it says Trojan-PSW.Win32.LdPinch.abm, Trojan.Qoologic-Key Logger, SHeur.ZSQ and adware.WIN32.look2me.ab and WIN32/HoaxrRENOS.HX…. Please Help not sure what to do????????? 5 viruses found…I’m like from where?? I don’t do much with my computer other than music and emails.

By: Irwin Judson

Irwin Judson — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:32:00 +0000

My iMac is two hour old. I am getting the spinning pinwheel constantly.
And to think I put out money I don’t have for a new computer I didn’t really need because the sales people told me Apple was so stable that problems don’t really happen!

By: Sean Pitts

Sean Pitts — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:54:00 +0000

My MacBook Pro 5,3 has had a similar issue since I purchased ~2 years ago. It may have started when I encrypted the hard drive in firewall to meet DoD Data At Rest (DAR) requirements.
Always on first start up I get the pinwheel of death. Power button for 10 secs then it starts up normal.
I’ve turned of different apps. and reset PRAM to no avail. Gleefully accepted system software updates in hopes it would fix.
Going to try to reset PMU…again.
Any suggestions?

By: Charlamagnedavis

Charlamagnedavis — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:25:00 +0000

What I did was, I powered down my Mac, then I powered it up as I was holding down t; which puts it into target mode, after that I waited about a minute, the I powered it down again, and then powered it up, after that it started working.

By: Computer keeps restarting

Computer keeps restarting — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:27:30 +0000

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By: alexasmith

alexasmith — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:44:36 +0000

But where is the option button?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:23:28 +0000

when my laptop freezes I unplug it and take out the battery. its a manual hard shut down and its not good for the computer but at least it will restart.