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2012 MacBook Pro Problem

  • 11-12-2015 10:42am
    #1
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,969 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi!

    My laptop seems to have turned to from a sprightly young one to an old man over night. I did the first aid in the disk utility and didn't see anything there (I wouldn't really understand it anyway...)
    On Wednesday, the cursor started to get all jumpy and it would freeze and any task I performed would take up to a minute or more to perform. There were beachballs all around! It froze a few times and I had to turn the laptop off at least three times.
    It was fine yesterday until last night and it did it again so I just turned if off and left it off.
    It is quite slow again this morning.

    I had to get a new hard drive a few months ago.

    Any ideas at all as to where I should begin before paying someone to look at it?

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    whiterebel
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    Did you run Disk First Aid on it from the CD that came with it?


  • #3
    Doodah7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    Check to see if Spotlight has taken to re-indexing everything. This happened to me before and my computer slowed down until it finished.


  • #4
    Greentree_uk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Greentree_uk


    HDD cable gone bad. you'll need to get it replaced.


  • #5
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,969 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    whiterebel wrote: »
    Did you run Disk First Aid on it from the CD that came with it?

    I didn't get a CD with it. I ran first aid through the disk utility. I'll try it again now as it seems to be working at the moment. It had a rough 30 minutes earlier!
    tallpaul wrote: »
    Check to see if Spotlight has taken to re-indexing everything. This happened to me before and my computer slowed down until it finished.

    Ehm, how do I do this? :o
    Greentree_uk wrote: »
    HDD cable gone bad. you'll need to get it replaced.

    I hope not. The HDD is only new.


  • #6
    Greentree_uk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Greentree_uk


    it's the cable not the Hard drive.


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  • #7
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,969 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    I ran the disk utility and it appears to be fine.


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