Macbook Pro won't start - blue screen

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Macbook Pro won't start - blue screen

My computer froze last night. I tried restarting it and now all I get is the intial apple logo screen and then a blank blue screen.

I tried tried restarting multiple times,using either power adapter or battery and still got same result. Even turned off and left overnight. Still the same.

Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Pat

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Sep 9, 2008 9:51 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 9, 2008 10:46 AM in response to texaspat

The blue screen comes up when the system is booting if there is a need to repair something. Turning the computer off while booting is not helpful. I have had a blue screen for up to 5 minutes. If you are having even longer waits, you might consider booting into safe mode (hold down the shift key while booting). This will conduct a whole bunch of repairs. Run a permissions repair, then reboot normally.

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Answer 2

texaspat Author

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Sep 10, 2008 7:42 AM in response to texaspat

I did run the disk utility last night from the Leopard disk and it found no errors. I also checked permissions and had some difference, but ran the fix permissions to correct.

Still not able to boot beyond blue screen. I really don't want to have to reinstall as I was in the middle of doing a complete backup when it froze. Only have partial backup.

Any other suggestions out there?

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Answer 3

sig

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Sep 9, 2008 10:33 AM in response to texaspat

Boot from your Leopard installer disk and run Repair Disk from Disk Utilities.

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Answer 4

Sep 10, 2008 7:17 PM in response to texaspat

you can do an archive and install, which will retain your files.

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