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Aug 14, 2012 6:37 PM in response to dallyonby BDAqua,I'm pretty sure it's serious, have you blown the Dust out Lately?
The noise may be Had Drive problem, hold Option or alt key at bootup, does anything show as a boot choice?
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Aug 14, 2012 6:44 PM in response to BDAquaby dallyon,I am holding option down during strart up but just "thinks" for a while and bring me to the same page with the green line and the message saying to restart...
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Aug 14, 2012 9:48 PM in response to dallyonby BDAqua,Unless you have possibly Firmware password protection in Mac OS X set...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
It would block usage of all the startup keys, like C, N, T, D, CMD+s, CMD+Option+p+r, CMD +v, Option, and Shift, as well as booting from anything but the Hard Drive.
You'll likely have to take it in for diagnosis.
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Aug 17, 2012 12:23 PM in response to BDAquaby dallyon,I took the computer for diagnosis and the tech told me that it's the video card. The problem is that the video card is attached to the motherboard, thus it has to be replaced entirely... about $1000... :-(
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