when I boot macbook pro it make the usual noise and has the apple and loading swirly thing but then it is all covered with diagonal checkerboard pattern boxes and black boxes, eventually the screen gets stuck on a blue screen and still has the diagonal boxes.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Can you boot to your Recovery disk? Command and R keys held down on boot. What you describe is likely more related to the graphics card but if you can boot into the Recovery partition, I'd like you to use Disk Utility to verify your hard drive and repair it if needed. And, while you're there, go ahead and repair permissions. Then reboot and see if you still have the pattern. If so, it might be a GPU problem.
Try it and see...
Clinton
Thank you for replying! Ok, I tried holding down the command and r keys, a blank white screen appeared, so I shut down and tried again and this time the screen went from white, to blue and then what seems to be the boot up screen. The screen still has the diagonal boxes, but this time there are two vertical lines of boxes and one along the bottom. There are also the grey blob boxes, which I think is the apple, an the mouse is also present too, in blob form. Actually right now though, the mouse is doing that rainbow swirly thing. So, this is what I get after booting with the command key and r key held down
Thanks, Erin
Then you have a hardware problem with the graphiics system in your Mac. If still under warranty take it to Apple ASAP to get it fixed.
If your system is from 2008 then you may have this problem.
Yes I did some research and I found that the nvidia graphics card was faulty in early MacBooks. I see that they will fix it free of charge four years or earlier fro the purchase date but unfortunately the computer is now six years old. I'm hoping they will still allow the free fix.
macbook pro monitor has checkerboard patter then stuck on blue screen
