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From: El.Plates on 14 Jun 2010 08:45
Macbook HD froze up when on screen saver. rebooted it, doesn't get past the
grey screen not even the apple logo. I have tried a "target Boot" with a
fire wire to my powermac.. but nothing
Can anyone help me please

From: Meat Plow on 14 Jun 2010 08:49
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:45:25 +0100, El.Plates ǝʇoɹʍ:

> Macbook HD froze up when on screen saver. rebooted it, doesn't get past
> the grey screen not even the apple logo. I have tried a "target Boot"
> with a fire wire to my powermac.. but nothing Can anyone help me please

Looks like a hardware problem. Take it to someone familiar with the
Macbook.
From: El.Plates on 14 Jun 2010 09:30


"Meat Plow" <mhywatt(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2010.06.14.12.50.08(a)gmail.com...
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:45:25 +0100, El.Plates ǝʇoɹʍ:
>
>> Macbook HD froze up when on screen saver. rebooted it, doesn't get past
>> the grey screen not even the apple logo. I have tried a "target Boot"
>> with a fire wire to my powermac.. but nothing Can anyone help me please
>
> Looks like a hardware problem. Take it to someone familiar with the
> Macbook.

Yes I'd thought of that myself...

From: Jim on 14 Jun 2010 10:00
On 2010-06-14, El.Plates <pints(a)thebar.com> wrote:
> Macbook HD froze up when on screen saver. rebooted it, doesn't get past the
> grey screen not even the apple logo. I have tried a "target Boot" with a
> fire wire to my powermac.. but nothing
> Can anyone help me please
>

Can you boot from the original source media?

Jim
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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 Jun 2010 09:59
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:45:25 +0100, "El.Plates" <pints(a)thebar.com>
wrote:

>Macbook HD froze up when on screen saver. rebooted it, doesn't get past the
>grey screen not even the apple logo. I have tried a "target Boot" with a
>fire wire to my powermac.. but nothing

Did "target boot" put the Firewire logo on the screen, or never get
that far?

>Can anyone help me please

You may be out of luck - if it was just the hard drive, it would get
to the Apple logo, so it's likely more severe than that.

First, try clearing your PRAM: hold cmd-alt-p-r on boot, and release
after the bong, reboot, bong. Let it try to complete boot from here.

It could be a memory problem. Pop out one of the two sticks of RAM,
try booting, then switch and try the other stick.

Check on ifixit.com for a full guide for your model, but if you'd like
to dive in the memory is inside the battery compartment behind the
L-shaped strip of metal with three small crossheads.

The hard drive is in there as well, if you'd like to yank it and pop
it into an external enclosure so you can get to your stuff from the
powermac.

Cheers - Jaimie
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