My Mac Book Pro froze. Now it won't turn on past the apple screen with the loading circle. What do I do? I have the Snow Leopard disc. PLEASE HELP! I NEED my MAC running ASAP!!! Thanks!
MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1, Snow Leopard Early 2011
Disconnect all peripherals from your computer.
Boot from your install disc & run Repair Disk from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963 and restart your computer.
I'm following the instructions, but it opens up to the apple screen. Then it keeps beeping three times in a row. That's all it's doing.
Mac OS X 10.6: If you hear beeps when your computer starts up
Boot up from your system DVD that originally came w/your computer & run Apple's Hardware Test.
Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test
My Mac Book Pro froze. Now it won't turn on past the apple screen with the loading circle. What do I do?
