Colin Prutton

My mid 2011 mini Server runs very hot even after I cleaned all around and under the fan. Is this a temp sensor issue?

My iPhone 4 suddenly stopped getting internet connection over GSM. Carrier says it´s not a problem on their side. Any ideas ?

Yesterday afternoon my iPhone 4 was working fine but the same evening, without me doing anything with the phone, it...

I have an A1278 that is exhibiting all the signs of a dead PRAM Battery. I have read that this means replacing the Logic...

Ever since I did a Mountain Lion update I´ve had various troubles with battery power. I reverted to Snow Leopard after...

I am getting, at somewhat random intervals an error message (see above) it continues with "you may experience interference...

Try the SMC reset ! Remove all external devices from USB, connect power supply. Hold down shift + alt + power button for a couple seconds. Release and press power, maybe it´s fixed ! Colin P

You don´t mention which system version you are running or which model your machine is. I think this is highly relevant. Two days ago this issue returned on my MBP 5,5 (mid 2009 13"). I am not interested in "Mountain Lion" and as I wrote above I went to a lot of trouble to revert to "Snow Leopard", which IMHO is the best ever Mac OS for my purposes. I forgot to mention that not only the "Battery not charging" warning was coming and going but also the "Time & date" settings were lost every time the problem occurred. Once again I re-installed my hard disk with ML into the machine, downloaded the 10.8.2 "Combo update" and ran it. Everything was back to normal. This time the dmg that came down was the size that was stated on the download page at Apple.com. Then swapped out the internal drive back to the SSD with "Snow Leopard". Booted the machine from my CCC backup disk (in a USB box) and was able to repair the corrupted SSD. Booted back to SSD and everything looked good. All that took place yesterday, today I...