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I searched through some of the other posts for MacBooks not starting and only found 1 relating to my situation, and he was using an older OS. I am not sure if this is a software issue, but since it won't start up, I figured it was hardware related.
The problem started last night, I used my macbook(OS X 10.5, leopard) during the day with no problems or any weirdness, but later on when I went to watch a movie, the entire computer froze, after waiting for a while, I just held down the power button to shut down.
I turned on the machince and it powered up to the grey screen with the apple and the dial was spinning, it stayed there for a few minutes (longer than normal, but while in the grey screen I was able to remove the DVD) then flicked to a blue screen where the dial appeared again, I waited and the screen flicked to another blue screen where I could move the arrow mouse around and there was a small square in the upper left hand corner, then flicked right back to the blue screen with the spinning dial. It continued to flick between these 2 blue screens.
The battery is fully charged and I have tried powering down again, removing the battery, resetting the PRAM, I cannot start up in safe mode-it will just send me to the flickering blue screens, I am at work right now and I do not have my utility discs.
Has anyone had this problem before? I am more worried about losing all my stuff since I haven't backed anything up (yeah I know), I am still under warrenty and have an appt with the Apple store already, I am wondering if anyone could give me an idea on what's going on? I apologize if this has been addressed already, I couldn't find anything through searches.
Thanks
The problem started last night, I used my macbook(OS X 10.5, leopard) during the day with no problems or any weirdness, but later on when I went to watch a movie, the entire computer froze, after waiting for a while, I just held down the power button to shut down.
I turned on the machince and it powered up to the grey screen with the apple and the dial was spinning, it stayed there for a few minutes (longer than normal, but while in the grey screen I was able to remove the DVD) then flicked to a blue screen where the dial appeared again, I waited and the screen flicked to another blue screen where I could move the arrow mouse around and there was a small square in the upper left hand corner, then flicked right back to the blue screen with the spinning dial. It continued to flick between these 2 blue screens.
The battery is fully charged and I have tried powering down again, removing the battery, resetting the PRAM, I cannot start up in safe mode-it will just send me to the flickering blue screens, I am at work right now and I do not have my utility discs.
Has anyone had this problem before? I am more worried about losing all my stuff since I haven't backed anything up (yeah I know), I am still under warrenty and have an appt with the Apple store already, I am wondering if anyone could give me an idea on what's going on? I apologize if this has been addressed already, I couldn't find anything through searches.
Thanks