Bootup problem?

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Bootup problem?

Hey, so my Macbook Pro 13" running on Snow Leopard won't boot properly.

YES, I have tried Safe Boot, which will stop loading about two thirds of the way, and YES I have tried from the Snowleopard disk. It won't boot from regular OR from drive select (hold option at start).

I assume it's computer failure instead of hard drive, because the boot sequence is probbably messed.

It goes to the white screen with the apple logo, and stops there. I hade to shut down because Pages' instant alpha lagged like heck, but nothing strange in console, or activity moniter. After that, it died.

I havent gone to the Genius Bar yet, 1, because they are unreliable (check my last post here:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3604538 (they searched the internet 😮)

and 2, don't have the time at the moment.

Hopefully someone can answer,(have some projects due soon 😝) but other than that I'm stuck.

Thanks again!

Macbook Pro

Posted on Feb 14, 2012 6:21 PM

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ds store

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Feb 14, 2012 8:10 PM in response to luigikirby

luigikirby wrote:

YES, I have tried Safe Boot, which will stop loading about two thirds of the way,

Sometimes you need to let it run for quite some time as it's repairing the drive.

https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1884

YES I have tried from the Snowleopard disk. It won't boot from regular OR from drive select (hold option at start).

So holding c or option key and trying to boot off a clean 10.6 disk doesn't work? native keyboard I assume.

This sounds like a EFI issue or a bad disk that's not being recognized, why the Safe Boot shift key works?

It goes to the white screen with the apple logo, and stops there.

Try the other steps like PRAM reset and SMU reset

https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/26871.html

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HACKINT0SH

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Feb 14, 2012 9:58 PM in response to ds store

When you tried the safe-boot, did you at least see the progress bar at any point?

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Feb 15, 2012 3:30 PM in response to HACKINT0SH

As I said, it would show the grey bar loading, up until about 2 thirds of the way. Then it would just stop, as in the bar would disapear.

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Feb 15, 2012 3:32 PM in response to ds store

Thanks for the help! Except now my mac works😕. I just booted it up one last time, and it worked...

Sigh, I guess Apple stuff is just random isn't it?

Thanks for your help anyways!

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HACKINT0SH

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Feb 15, 2012 3:45 PM in response to luigikirby

It is not uncommon, to se the bar stop at some point, and then after a brief while suddenly jump a significant factor.

So it looks like the safe boot just took its time reporting the status once it was 66% complete.

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ds store

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Feb 15, 2012 8:59 PM in response to luigikirby

luigikirby wrote:

Thanks for the help! Except now my mac works😕. I just booted it up one last time, and it worked...

Sigh, I guess Apple stuff is just random isn't it?

Safe mode fixes some things.

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564

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