Help, I bricked my macbook...

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I have a macbook pro 8,2 with OSX Lion. I've been trying to configure a dual-boot set up, and I think I screwed up my partitioning. Now, when it powers on I get a blank white screen, and no combination of keys seems to do anything. I've got a DVD in the drive, but it's not bootable, and the eject key isn't ejecting the DVD.

Is there anything I can do with this thing?? Starting with - is there a way to forcibly eject the DVD? I don't see a little pinhole anywhere ;)

Thanks!
 
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Earthworm Jim said:
Is there anything I can do with this thing?? Starting with - is there a way to forcibly eject the DVD? I don't see a little pinhole anywhere ;)

Thanks!
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Yes restart your Mac and hold down the mouse button or the trackpad and this should forcibly eject the DVD
 
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Earthworm Jim said:
I have a macbook pro 8,2 with OSX Lion. I've been trying to configure a dual-boot set up, and I think I screwed up my partitioning. Now, when it powers on I get a blank white screen, and no combination of keys seems to do anything. I've got a DVD in the drive, but it's not bootable, and the eject key isn't ejecting the DVD.

Is there anything I can do with this thing?? Starting with - is there a way to forcibly eject the DVD? I don't see a little pinhole anywhere ;)

Thanks!
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Try to power up and Zap PRAM "Option, Command, P, R" held till you get three chimes then hold the "Shift Key" and see if you can do a safe start.
 
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Sadly, neither worked. I've tried holding down the eject and f12 keys; along with the track pad. No joy.

I flashed the PRAM - while holding down the keys the system restarted & chimed 3 times. But, it still comes back to a blank white screen & doesn't do anything. Holding shift at power-on doesn't do anything; nor does holding any other key(s) - except the PRAM reset as already mentioned. It stubbornly continues to power on to a blank white screen.

Any other help would be appreciated. Is there any kind of shell available for the EFI, like there used to be for open firmware?
 
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Earthworm Jim said:
Sadly, neither worked. I've tried holding down the eject and f12 keys; along with the track pad. No joy.

I flashed the PRAM - while holding down the keys the system restarted & chimed 3 times. But, it still comes back to a blank white screen & doesn't do anything. Holding shift at power-on doesn't do anything; nor does holding any other key(s) - except the PRAM reset as already mentioned. It stubbornly continues to power on to a blank white screen.

Any other help would be appreciated. Is there any kind of shell available for the EFI, like there used to be for open firmware?
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Well this is a long shot, remove the RAM chips clean the slots with a residue free contact cleaner. and reseat them also if you can try to boot with an external HDD via option key, TDM via "T" key, or DVD via option key.
 

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