Yosemite - Grey screen and shut down
I Upgraded to Yosemite last night. Now When I boot the machine I see Grey screen with a time bar and then blank white screen and then it shuts down
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011)
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I Upgraded to Yosemite last night. Now When I boot the machine I see Grey screen with a time bar and then blank white screen and then it shuts down
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011)
I have this same problem. Command + R on start up does nothing. Command+Option+R (internet recovery) asks me to connect to a network then brings me to loading bar with a spinning globe for about 8 minutes the bar fully loads and I then get the blank grey screen and eventual shutdown. D on start up doesn't work. Command+Option+P+R has no effect. Shift or Option+Shift has no effect.
The big problem is that my files are not backed up, I do have a bootable install drive available but I don't want to erase my files. What should I do?
Your Mac has some Startup Issues. Possibly caused due to some issues on your Mac which OS X Installer could not resolve.
Read this great document as you will find clues what to do in situations where Mac do not boot properly: ..Step by Step to fix your Mac
I tried everything I could find, including booting from an external drive that worked on another computer nothing worked. I brought it to the professionals who diagnosed it as a failed GPU which is endemic to the early 2011 model macbook pro. This will be the second time the GPU is replaced for free by apple. Hopefully nothing else is broken.
Yosemite - Grey screen and shut down