BSOD - Black screen of death!

I've had my macbook for about 3 weeks now and everything has been good, i installed windows on it about a week ago and everything works great "no headphones tho ". My default boot partition is os x and i was on windows at the time playing counter strike, so i restarded and it booted on os x and i took some pictures of things i was going to sell on ebay, so i copied the pictures to my windows partition so i could edit them and restarded to boot on windows. I looked away while holding the option key to select windows and i looked back and the screen was black, nothing at all so i said to my self, is cool, just a simple error. I restarded the computer and then i heard the boot up sound but the screen was black again... so i turned it off and on again and hold options, the screen was still black, but i clicked the arrow key and then pressed enter and woala! it booted on windows. I then changed my default bootup partition to windows and when i turn on my mac it goes into windows with no problem at all "but the bootup screen is still black" tried doing the same with os x but i still get a black screen. Any recommendations? is there a way to fix this without formating the whole drive? thx.

Macbook 1.8, 2gig, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Jul 7, 2006 5:16 PM

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Jul 7, 2006 8:41 PM in response to evangelion-o1

My advice would be to boot into osx and run the bootcamp assistant to remove bootcamp and repartition, and immediately get parallels. 🙂
Bootcamp is barely even mentioned on apple's site, they are also promoting parallels. The core duo processor has a unique virtualization layer that makes emulation near perfect----minus the opengl and graphic acceleration. Also, xp will boot in parallels faster than almost all desktops.

Jul 7, 2006 9:13 PM in response to evangelion-o1

is it black or it is blank with no option, if it is black, how can you see the arrow?

try to give some time for the start up to display the start up option. Also try to restart using your installer disk and run disk utility to verify and repair the HD and repair permission, hope it will help.

Good Luck

And for mattpall, I thought that parallel allowed us to run XP and OS X side by side and no boot required, so what is you mean by boot faster than almost all desktop?

Jul 30, 2006 8:54 AM in response to evangelion-o1

I do not have boot camp but I also have the black screen at boot occasionally too. It is like the Graphics hardware stays in lower power mode or something. To fix it turn on the computer, hold down Command + Option + P + R to zap the PRAM. Hold it down until the screen is bright and on again, usually two or three startup sounds. There is obviously a bug in the MacBook as this has happened three different times to me and zapping the PRAM fixes it every time. There are other threads on these forums explaining the same problem.

Regards,

RacerX

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