Hi Marsha.
Just press the command key (cmd) and while holding the command key press the plus sign (+) and your text should be enlarged. If it still is to small, repeat ;-) To reduce size use the minus (-). To get back to standard view press zero (0) all while holding the command key.
Hope this is what you where looking for :-)
I asume that this sing appears on the boot process right?, that's normally occurs when the system detects a problem loading the OS, did you load some new software or make some OS changes?
Sounds like your screen went bad.
Close the lid, attach an external monitor, open lid and see if the screen appears on the monitor.
Resetting the PRAM may do the trick also:
You reset the PRAM by rebooting a Mac and then immediately hold down the Command+Option+P+R keys, you will then hear the Mac reboot sound again, signifying your PRAM has been reset. You must hit the key combination before the grey screen appears otherwise it won't work.
Happy New Year,
Kerry
Sounds like you need a new keyboard. You can get one from apple or a third party vendor. One thing you might try is re-installing the drivers for the keyboard.
okay going to have a bash at solving this but it's a little hard based on your description. I'm guessing this has Mavricks operating system installed.
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Dictation & Speech, then click Text to Speech.
Select the "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" checkbox. By default, speaking is enabled when you press Option-Esc. To choose a different key, click Change Key, press one or more modifier keys (Command, Shift, Option, or Control) together with another key, then click OK.
To have your Mac start speaking, press the specified key. To stop the speaking, press the key again. If text is selected when you press the key, the selected text is spoken. Otherwise, available text items in the current window are spoken; for example, if Mail is the current window, an email message is read. If no text items are available, you hear a beep.
So based on what you have described you have already found this option and set the change key to "command" + "e"
Try rebooting then going to the text to speech option and attempt to set the key combination you want it to be. If this fails to change then try resetting the P-ram which should set it back to the default.
You haven't really given me anything to go on. If this is a case of hard drive space disappearing or if you've just filled up your drive and have lots of things running in the background. More info please.
Do you have the original Mac OS X Install DVD? Just pop that in, restart the MacBook Air, just after you hear the "dong" sound on startup with the white screen, immediately press an hold down your Control key (I think it is) an you will get a select menu of what you want to boot into like on Windows, select your Mac OS X DVD an everything else is pretty much self explainatory from there to have everything back to factory default as if you just bought the MacBook.(: hope this helps mate.
There's a couple of things you could try. First, try removing the key using this method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpwzUlJtVso make sure you turn the laptop off first.Then clean underneath it with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol. Let it dry and replace the key. If that doesn't work, you may need a new keyboard. You can purchase and replace it yourself if you're up to it. Search iFixit.com for the tutorial on how to replace the keyboard for your specific model.
Hi
hope you have fixed the problem by now. It sounds like the connection (wiring) between the screen and the motherboard is damaged. If so it is a hardware problem and must be repaired at Apple. Sry about seeing this so late.
