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Black screen on a MacBook Pro? Here's how to fix it

On an older Intel-chipped MacBook Pro, press and hold the power button for about 10 seconds, then press and release the power ...
CNET

Troubleshooting Mac OS X 10.2.8 (build 6R73): PCI cards; fsck; Printer Sharing; Repair Disk Permissions and black screens

OrangeMicro PCI cards and 10.2.8 Yesterday we reported the saga of a user whose Mac would not work properly after installing the 10.2.8 update. The culprit apparently ended up being an Orange Micro ...
CNET

When to run Permissions Fixes, Disk Repair, and Cache Cleaning routines

There are a variety of maintenance routines that people can run in OS X, including the disk verification and permissions repair that come with the system, along with scripts such as cache cleaners ...
Macworld

Do you need a third-party disk utility?

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...
Wired

Apple’s Self-Repair Program Has a Long Way to Go

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. The past few days ...