01-05-2009, 12:41 PM

Last night, my Macbook Pro froze on me while I was running Windows XP on VMWare Fusion, so I forced shutdown by holding the power button for five seconds.

Ever since, I have not been able to boot the OS at startup. The Apple logo shows up, then the status dial thingy below, and then a grey "curtain" comes down with a "You need to restart your computer" message in multiple languages.

The problem is, it freezes at that point, and it won't let me restart. So I have to force shutdown again by holding down the power button, and the problem repeats.

Sometimes when I try to reboot, it freezes as the grey "curtain" is coming down and before the "You need to restart your computer" message even shows up, so I don't know what is going on.

Please help.

01-05-2009, 02:20 PM

I'd boot up from your OS cds in and run disk utility, see if that works

01-05-2009, 02:42 PM

Thanks for the feedback.

I will try that when I get home later tonight.

If it means anything, I am able to boot up properly in safe mode.

Also, I ran the Apple Hardware Test by holding 'D' while powering on, and got the following error:

"Alert! Apple Hardware Test has detected an error.

4SNS/ 1 /40000000: TG0D- 93.000"

01-05-2009, 02:45 PM

That's a kernel panic, which is the rough equivalent to a "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD) in Windows.

Two major factors that would cause a kernel panic would be faulty hardware or damaged disk structure (or both). I agree with dbnoise, start with running verify/repair permissions and verify/repair disk in Disk Utility. Once that's complete, if the problem persists, run an Apple Hardware Test to ensure that everything is kosher hardware-wise.