The MacBook Pro with the dodgy GPU, well, it decided to update itself again, with meant it wouldn’t boot. I did have a look online to see if there was a permanent fix, the only way to do that was to do something with a soldering iron, I thought it was best to steer clear …
I needed a Windows 10 start up disk, but I didn’t have a working Windows 10 machine. You can grab one from the Microsoft website. Once downloaded insert the USB stick into the machine and open disks: In the top right hand corner you will see a vertical ellipses: It’s advised you format the disk …
I needed a Windows 10 start up disk, but I didn’t have a working Windows 10 machine. You can grab one from the Microsoft website. Once downloaded insert the USB stick into the machine and open disks: In the top right hand corner you will see a vertical ellipses: It’s advised you format the disk …
I know it’s been a while since I posted something, 2020 was a bit hectic! A few years ago my old MacBook failed, turned out to be an issue with the hard drive so replaced it, I had to re-heat sync the CPU as well. When it initially started working again I had already purchased …
So, after several weeks, I finally found a way of fixing it. A few days OK I was ready to give up. But then I found that with the operating system the Mac was using I had to do things differently. The operating system in question, High Sierra. How did I do it, good question, …
Already I have discussed how to get this Mac working on Arrrggggggghhhhh, my Mac won’t boot, into anything and Install a new hard drive in a Mac. I was fast running out of options. After sleeping on it, thought I would go back to basics. There is something that is conflicting, but what. I stuck …
So, after some heart ache over at ARRRGGGGGGGHHHHH, my Mac won’t boot into anything! I thought the only thing left was to try another hard drive. This is for High Sierra, I can’t guarantee that it will work for you. By doing this all your files will be deleted. If you can try and take …
Well, a bit of a fib, it’s not my Mac, it’s someone else’s. He’s had several issues with the same machine over the last year or so, mainly with GPU AMD failure. So, what did I do to fix it? It was a long winded process. Initially I thought the hard drive or the motherboard …
Recently, I was doing some work on the on a MediaWiki installation. For some reason I had all the permissions set up wrong. Obviously, MediaWiki has thousands of files to change. So first of all, in the shell, I ran the command from public_html directory: find -xtype f |xargs chmod 644 That changed the the …
Who said Macs just work? So this is the third time a friends Mac has failed, and again, it is the GPU AMD. This time it wouldn’t boot, and it wouldn’t boot into recovery or disk selection. So what I had to do was a mix of method one and two. WARNING – these worked …
