(White Screen of Death) I've been at for a couple hours now
Howdy,
My buddy's MacBook Pro (Late 2008) is experiencing the white screen of death. He bought the thing off of it's previous owner a few years ago and has no recovery disk or OS hardcopy.
I was tooling around with it just prior to the white screen. He's always used the old owner's account and didn't Recieve any updates for about 4 years due to passcode verification he didn't have. I made his account an admin and removed the other two, and I set safari to auto-start. Plus updated his Adobe and OS. That's about it, it was pretty much a vanilla system, just lacking a complete hard drive format.
That's when he turned it back on and found the white screen.
I've tried every startup command I can think of. The only thing that has any effect is holding down option after restart, it pops the mouse cursor onto the screen, and it moves totally normally. but Internet recovery just blinks the earth symbol signaling (I think) a poor connection, whether it's hard-wired into a router or right next to the wireless router that it already has granted access to.
Any ideas? I'd really prefer to finish this tonight and not have to run to the Genius Bar tomorrow.
Thanks!
Jeff
MacBook Pro, iOS 8.3