I'm on my last leg.
When I try turning my laptop on, I hear the fan start like it's going to start up, then I hear a quiet beep noise and it stops.
This happened after I let my laptop sit on my coffee table for the night (in sleep mode).
Did my laptop overheat? Has this happened to anyone else?
I think I need a new hard drive but before I replace it I was just curious to see if anyone had any suggestions.
My laptop: http://support.apple.com/kb/sp500
Thanks!
MacBook Pro
Yes it sounds like a drive failure to me but could be other things as well.
I would say that if you have recovery software and access to another computer and drive bay you could check it out and retrieve what you can off of drive but my best advice is to bring it into Apple store and see if they can run test on it.
Good luck John
I will try retrieving things off the hard drive if it's toast (with an external USB enclosure).
If the new hard drive doesn't work either, I guess then I'll take it into the Apple store (the closest one to me is 7 hours away). A new hard drive costs about as much as it would to talk to someone thru Apple Support anyways!
I've had this laptop now for almost 3 years without a single problem, now this...
try to reset PRAM and SMC first.
furthermore, if even your's HD is dead you should be able to boot from DVD or other external media - did you tried it?
At least press option immediately after powerup and see, will it show anything (some boot media)
I've tried resetting both. It doesn't matter if I press any buttons or put a disc in while pressing the power button - the same thing happens.
Could this be a power issue?
I've had a couple people look at it and they agree that the noise is coming from the hard drive.
Sometimes, if the hard drive fails badly enough, it can apparently compromise the machine's ability to boot from any system at all. I've never actually seen it happen, but have heard of it happening. That could be what has happened to you. I'd recommend buying and installing a new hard drive, and see if that fixes it. Worst case scenario, it doesn't help anything and you'll have wasted the money on the hard drive... except that money spent on a hard drive is never truly wasted, since you can just put it in an enclosure and make it part of your backup system. Most people don't have enough backups anyway.
Of course, that advice is based on certain assumptions that may not be valid, so take it for what you paid for it! 😉
Don't order any new components until you've complete all the steps in the article linked below. Some of them you may already have done.
Intel-Based Apple Portables: Troubleshooting a computer that will not power on
I've tried this already 😟 At first, I was hoping that it was an easy fix like replacing the battery, a dead battery, or my charger not working. I've also tried resetting the SMC.
My sister has a MPB so I will use her hard drive to troubleshoot my computer. I will post what happens so that it can help someone in the future with the same problem.
FRIED MOTHERBOARD. After not even 3 years of use, I'm completely disgusted with this laptop. I refuse to buy any more products from Apple.
Okay, that's your choice, but understand that a logic board dying for no reason is extremely unusual with Apple hardware. I've been using Apple hardware since 1984, and the only time that hardware has failed me* was with a laptop I dropped on a concrete floor.
* Other than hard drives, none of which are actually manufactured by Apple and which can and do die all the time, due to the nature of the technology.
I guess I just have bad luck with computers. Anywho, I'm trying to make the best of my situation. I'm going to take my hard drive and put it into an enclosure. I would like to use it with an older Dell that I have. Will this work??
Is my hard drive fried?
