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    Macbook Pro display showing four mirrored desktops

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by chrisfromlilongwe, Aug 15, 2013.

  1. chrisfromlilongwe

    chrisfromlilongwe Newbie

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    I have the older generation macbook pro. And it was not booting. So in the process of trying to reboot it from a snow leopard usb drive. It went into this mode. Where its displaying four mirrored desktops. During the boot it does the same. And after it was installed. It remained the same. I tried a NVRAM reset and it worked. The screen went back to normal. But when it got to the blue screen before logon it went back to the same mode. I tried a system preferences reset by deleting the file from the mac library and my user library. But nothing changed after a restart and anothe NVRAM. Reset. So I am now lost.

    Please help!
     
    chrisfromlilongwe, Aug 15, 2013
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  2. J.R. Nelson

    J.R. Nelson Minister of Awesome

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    Can you explain what you mean by saying that it's only showing four mirrored desktops?
     
    J.R. Nelson, Aug 15, 2013
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  3. chrisfromlilongwe

    chrisfromlilongwe Newbie

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    IMG-20130806-00131.jpg IMG-20130806-00132.jpg

    Thats pretty much it. What ever i do is mirrored on all four separated desktops
     
    chrisfromlilongwe, Aug 15, 2013
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  4. chrisfromlilongwe

    chrisfromlilongwe Newbie

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    Anything???????. I just tryed an NVRAM reset followed by immediate launch into sonw leopard install. But even then it still reverted. Please Please Help!!!!
     
    chrisfromlilongwe, Aug 24, 2013
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  5. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What GPU does your MacBook have?
     
    saturnotaku, Aug 24, 2013
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  6. chrisfromlilongwe

    chrisfromlilongwe Newbie

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    Its an ATI Radeon X1600.
     
    chrisfromlilongwe, Aug 24, 2013
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  7. S.SubZero

    S.SubZero Notebook Deity

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    Either you have a very easy trigger which is setting off the old Spaces (four desktops) or you have a defective Mac.

    Defective Macs can't really be fixed over forum chat.
     
    S.SubZero, Aug 26, 2013
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