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I'm working along, actually doing a 'carbon copy' backup of my main partition... and all of a sudden my Mac freezes. I hit the power button and try to restart... Black screen, no harddrive initiation, solid white power light... <strong>TOTAL PANIC TIME!</strong>
Nothing seem to work. Im a PC person just getting my feet wet on the mac, or guess u could say drowning now. Used mac I bought from someone.. so no warranty or anything like support. Figured from my Pc experience that since I wasnt hearing the drive initiate that my hard drive had died... (again im not a mac person so... black screen didnt really clue me into anything), running on the assumption that i only needed to replace the harddrive.
I ran out to best buy and bought a new one... kinda chatted with a mac techie there about my problem and he seemed to agree that that could be the problem and that I could possibly install my os again from my backup external harddrive ( he never lookd at the actual computer -- so his ignorance, that i became aware of at the next computer shop where I was going to buy a mac mini screwdriver to try out my plan,-- sry rambling - ignorance excused.
So I went on to the next computer store. Where the guy actually lookd (not internally opening up - but tried to keyboard some stuff and power on/off. Nothing worked. He said that more likely it was a logic board gone dead. <at this point im in full panic mode - Cant afford Apple repair, cant afford new Mac ---which is required for my work.>
Figuring all was lost I came home and began searching for a cheap mac to buy to replace what I got.. WHITE MACBOOK 13 ...
<strong>HERE'S THE INTERESTING PART...</strong>
I just reached over and hit the power button...(this is a good 19 hrs since this disaster started) ... and the **** thing booted...
Figured while it was up... DO BACKUPS ... which i did. Both partitions.. took about 20 min.
Was just coping one other directory over to my backup drive ... when it froze up on me again.
Now, back to the same problem I had 20 hrs ago...
<strong>IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A LOGIC BOARD TO DIE, THEN RESURRECT ITSELF AND THEN DIE AGAIN???</strong>
The info on the drive was fine... got my backups... kinda nice not to lose... but without a computer ... not real useful.
PRESSURE??? WHERE??? I'm so lost!
<strong>ANY ONE OUT THERE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE HELP ME</strong>
<strong>STILL IN FULL PANIC MODE!</strong>
searching the web for help - note this: Fixing a MacBook that Won't Boot: Solid Black Screen, Solid White Light | mattalltech.com
Nothing seem to work. Im a PC person just getting my feet wet on the mac, or guess u could say drowning now. Used mac I bought from someone.. so no warranty or anything like support. Figured from my Pc experience that since I wasnt hearing the drive initiate that my hard drive had died... (again im not a mac person so... black screen didnt really clue me into anything), running on the assumption that i only needed to replace the harddrive.
I ran out to best buy and bought a new one... kinda chatted with a mac techie there about my problem and he seemed to agree that that could be the problem and that I could possibly install my os again from my backup external harddrive ( he never lookd at the actual computer -- so his ignorance, that i became aware of at the next computer shop where I was going to buy a mac mini screwdriver to try out my plan,-- sry rambling - ignorance excused.
So I went on to the next computer store. Where the guy actually lookd (not internally opening up - but tried to keyboard some stuff and power on/off. Nothing worked. He said that more likely it was a logic board gone dead. <at this point im in full panic mode - Cant afford Apple repair, cant afford new Mac ---which is required for my work.>
Figuring all was lost I came home and began searching for a cheap mac to buy to replace what I got.. WHITE MACBOOK 13 ...
<strong>HERE'S THE INTERESTING PART...</strong>
I just reached over and hit the power button...(this is a good 19 hrs since this disaster started) ... and the **** thing booted...
Figured while it was up... DO BACKUPS ... which i did. Both partitions.. took about 20 min.
Was just coping one other directory over to my backup drive ... when it froze up on me again.
Now, back to the same problem I had 20 hrs ago...
<strong>IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A LOGIC BOARD TO DIE, THEN RESURRECT ITSELF AND THEN DIE AGAIN???</strong>
The info on the drive was fine... got my backups... kinda nice not to lose... but without a computer ... not real useful.
PRESSURE??? WHERE??? I'm so lost!
<strong>ANY ONE OUT THERE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE HELP ME</strong>
<strong>STILL IN FULL PANIC MODE!</strong>
searching the web for help - note this: Fixing a MacBook that Won't Boot: Solid Black Screen, Solid White Light | mattalltech.com