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So, I have a bit of a story on how I got my Macbook Pro to an SOS code state.
The other day, I woke up to a great amount of fan noise from the machine. I could not get the screen to come on by pressing the trackpad or keyboard, so I put the lid down hoping it would go to sleep and cool down. It did not go to sleep, and just kept spinning away. I ended up holding the power button to force it down. Coming home later, I attempted to boot it. It goes from the grey screen with Apple, to grey screen with spinner. After staying there for a while, it kernel panicked. It overlayed the text on the grey screen, like a terminal. This link shows what it looked like. (note, not my image, but the panic was similar). I force shut it down, and tried again. I have had kernel panics before while the OS was running, and a restart has always solved the problem as far as I could remember. Haven't had any in at least a year. On the next boot however, it didn't make it as far as the spinner, just the grey + apple. The kernel panic also has Unknown for BSD process and Not yet set for OSX version, as well as type 6. I held option, my HDD showed up, rebooted various times, plugged in, unplugged, reset SMC, reset PRAM etc with no luck. After one panic though, it sat there for a few seconds and then the screen went black and the speaker played 3 short tones, 3 long tones, 3 short tones in sync with the sleep light. I forced it down again, and now it just starts up straight to the tones and a black screen. After the tones, it does stay on, sleep light solid, no screen. Apparently this is some firmware recovery thing? I let it stay like this for a while, it burned through the battery, no change in startup. Having it doing this now while plugged in, we'll see if I can get anything good. Any advice is appreciated, some people say it's RAM, others say a new logicboard is required. I haven't touched anything inside yet. I don't have another Mac just PCs, but I know people who do, and I can use theirs to make CDs or anything else I may need to I'm sure. I do have some data on the hard drive that would be nice to get back if I have to reinstall the OS (assuming I can even do that at this point), but if there is no way that's happening I think I can part with it.
The other day, I woke up to a great amount of fan noise from the machine. I could not get the screen to come on by pressing the trackpad or keyboard, so I put the lid down hoping it would go to sleep and cool down. It did not go to sleep, and just kept spinning away. I ended up holding the power button to force it down. Coming home later, I attempted to boot it. It goes from the grey screen with Apple, to grey screen with spinner. After staying there for a while, it kernel panicked. It overlayed the text on the grey screen, like a terminal. This link shows what it looked like. (note, not my image, but the panic was similar). I force shut it down, and tried again. I have had kernel panics before while the OS was running, and a restart has always solved the problem as far as I could remember. Haven't had any in at least a year. On the next boot however, it didn't make it as far as the spinner, just the grey + apple. The kernel panic also has Unknown for BSD process and Not yet set for OSX version, as well as type 6. I held option, my HDD showed up, rebooted various times, plugged in, unplugged, reset SMC, reset PRAM etc with no luck. After one panic though, it sat there for a few seconds and then the screen went black and the speaker played 3 short tones, 3 long tones, 3 short tones in sync with the sleep light. I forced it down again, and now it just starts up straight to the tones and a black screen. After the tones, it does stay on, sleep light solid, no screen. Apparently this is some firmware recovery thing? I let it stay like this for a while, it burned through the battery, no change in startup. Having it doing this now while plugged in, we'll see if I can get anything good. Any advice is appreciated, some people say it's RAM, others say a new logicboard is required. I haven't touched anything inside yet. I don't have another Mac just PCs, but I know people who do, and I can use theirs to make CDs or anything else I may need to I'm sure. I do have some data on the hard drive that would be nice to get back if I have to reinstall the OS (assuming I can even do that at this point), but if there is no way that's happening I think I can part with it.