During startup in Mac OS X v10.4 through Mac OS X v10.6.8, you will see 'Safe Boot' on the login window, which appears even if you normally log in automatically If successful you will see your login in screen, if you do. Reboot your machine and it will go back to normal mode.

1. Mac Os X White Login Screen Freeze Steam For Mac

Hiya So I'm pretty new to this whole Mac malarkey, but even I know that the whole mac isn't meant to freeze, where I can move the cursor around the screen but am unable to click or do anything. Then eventually the colourwheel appears and renders me incapable of doing anything. I waited for a while but nothing changed, so I had to turn it off manually via the off button on the key board. I'm also finding that (and it's really hard to explain, so I hope you know what I mean) where if I'm flicking through a website, for example Facebook, I click onto a new page, and there are lines/blocks/sections that can be seen of the page I was on previously, as if I printscreened page one and put it on Paint, then print screened the other page and put that on a different file, then picked out random squares/sections of page 1 and pasted them onto page two. That's what it looks like. I'm unable to interact with the current page and I have to refresh the page in order to restore it as waiting does nothing.

Finally, sometimes I maximise the page to full screen from a half screen, but the content on the page stays the same size/shape it was, despite the window itself maximising to full screen. The 'void' area is simply white. It's no exaggeration when I say that my mac is BRAND new - I've had it for about 3 weeks. Please help!!! What on earth is going on?!

Any and all help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance 🙂 Fay. Hardware Information: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1 1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores 8 GB RAM Video Information: Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB System Software: OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 0:23:43 Disk Information: M4-CT064M4SSD2 disk0: (64.02 GB) EFI (disk0s1): 209.7 MB osx (disk0s2) /: 63.16 GB (23.36 GB free) Recovery HD (disk0s3): 650 MB TOSHIBA MK3265GSXF disk1: (320.07 GB) EFI (disk1s1): 209.7 MB Macintosh HD (disk1s2) /Volumes/Macintosh HD: 319.21 GB (262.9 GB free) USB Information: Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub Apple Inc.

Bluetooth USB Host Controller Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver FireWire Information: Thunderbolt Information: Apple Inc. Thanks for posting your Etrecheck.

Your RAM and disk usage is healthy and you have a Time Machine backup which is good (albeit it is excluding a system and application data). You do not have any of the usual suspect in your software mods. That is good.

Mac Os X White Login Screen Freeze Steam For Mac

You should make sure your 3rd-party software is up to date. Here are 3rd-party additions that show up as system modifications: - Temperature Monitor: BRESINKx86Monitoring - Folding@home - QuestAgent - macosforge.xquartz - valvesoftware.steamclean - wondershare I am not familiar with any in the list above being incompatible with Mavericks but they could be. You could try uninstalling them one at a time until you found the culprit (if it is one of them) but there are other things to try first. You need to use uninstallers to remove applications so hidden files that can cause problems are not left behind. For example: How do I remove XQuartz? 10.8: But first Did you download any new software or browser plugins or upgrade the operating system shortly before these problems appeared? For example was there an upgrade to 10.9 or from 10.9.0 to 10.9.1?

Backup: Before proceeding, make sure you have a recent backup. You should always have a current backup and especially when something is wrong. Run disk diagnostics with Disk Utility. This will check if the disk and filesystem are healthy. Finder Go Utilities Disk Utility Click on the upper left disk icon. Does the S.M.A.R.T.

Status say “Verified”. If not the disk/SSD is unhealthy and needs to be replaced. Click on the icon indented below, usually called “Macintosh HD”. If it finishes with a green “OK” message then all is well with the disk.

If it shows errors in red then you may have found the problem. Boot in Safe Mode. It will boot and shutdown slower than normal.

Does the problem go away in Safe Mode? Try and SMC Reset. Did this improve the performance?

Create a new user account and login to it. Is it faster in this other account? Please post back the answers or what happened restuls. Hope to hear from your soon.

When i booted into safe mode the problem didnt appear but it was running very slugish and glitch. Logging into account seemed to be fine with no problems.

Most of the application were removed before hand before the problem occured but here is the report. Hardware Information: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1 1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores 8 GB RAM Video Information: Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB System Software: OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 0:5:21 Disk Information: M4-CT064M4SSD2 disk0: (64.02 GB) EFI (disk0s1): 209.7 MB osx (disk0s2) /: 63.16 GB (23.87 GB free) Recovery HD (disk0s3): 650 MB TOSHIBA MK3265GSXF disk1: (320.07 GB) EFI (disk1s1): 209.7 MB Macintosh HD (disk1s2) /Volumes/Macintosh HD: 319.21 GB (262.87 GB free) USB Information: Apple Computer, Inc.

IR Receiver Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller FireWire Information: Thunderbolt Information: Apple Inc. Okay i've got rid of the login items and it seems to be running okay now but i shall keep you updated if the problem happens again.

I cant figure out how to get rid of: Kernel Extensions: com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring Launch Daemons: org.macosforge.xquartz.privilegedstartx.plist Launch Agents: com.quest.QuestAgent.plist org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist User Launch Agents: com.wondershare.mobilegodaemon.plist I have made sure Quartz is on the new version so i guess it would stay in the report and be okay. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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