Q: macbook startup goes to grey apple and loading bar (not wheel) then nothing
Hi yesterday my macbook had a funny moment with the screen ( it went all squiggly no problems before?) So I had to do a hard reset as I couldn't see what I was doing, well now when I turn it back on the Apple logo comes up the chime but with a loafing bar as if after you've updated it? Well it gets about half way and then disappears and just stays on the grey screen, I've tried booting it every way possible apart from a firewire cable.
Safe mode doesn't get past the half way mark
Revovery mode doesn't either (online recovery works until it's downloaded then disappears )
I've tried the extended hardware test which says everything is fine
I've used single user mode which does say it modifies something and then when I get it to say it's good nothing changes.
And when I try and boot from the original snow leopard all I get is 3 ding noises and nothing else happens? I am actually updated to lion.
Any suggestions to try would be helpful as my nearest mac store is a few hours away!!
Posted on Nov 18, 2015 2:36 AM