I have an early 08 Macbook Pro 15" that I'm having some hardware issues with.
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro 15 but it's currently in the shop for another reason.
Here's the problem.
I had a OSX Mavericks + Bootcamp on my '08 installed and functional. At some point OSX would cease to boot up properly. However, bootcamp seems to work fine.
Bootcamp windows 7 64 bit partition can:
Cold Boot
Restart boot
Wake up from sleep
Sleep
Close the lid and maintain state
Basically seems to be 100% functional
1 problem in bootcamp:
in the hardware properties, the firewire controller cannot start
OSX can only start after I have pulled the HD and put it from another mac (whether as a USB or as a primary internal drive). Then I have to shut it down and I can install it in my '08 as either a primary or external usb drive and it will boot fine but only once.
If it shuts down or sleeps I won't be able to recover and I will have to boot the drive from another mac.
I first thought it was my bootcamp partition that was creating havoc, so I installed OSX on another one of my MacBooks (sister's '10 13" unibody) and erased the whole drive including the bootcamp. This did not fix the problem.
I can always boot to single user mode. Verbose boot hangs at assigning EN1 - which I find weird.
Most of the hardware is functional including:
Magsafe
Battery
speakers
bluetooth
trackpad
keyboard
backlight
isight
left usb port
headphones/mic
dvi out
lan port
cd drive
display (led brightness increases/decreases fine)
Non functional hardware:
right usb port
Unsure since I don't have either one of these drives:
Firewire ports
I have of course also tried SMC and PRAM resets
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro 15 but it's currently in the shop for another reason.
Here's the problem.
I had a OSX Mavericks + Bootcamp on my '08 installed and functional. At some point OSX would cease to boot up properly. However, bootcamp seems to work fine.
Bootcamp windows 7 64 bit partition can:
Cold Boot
Restart boot
Wake up from sleep
Sleep
Close the lid and maintain state
Basically seems to be 100% functional
1 problem in bootcamp:
in the hardware properties, the firewire controller cannot start
OSX can only start after I have pulled the HD and put it from another mac (whether as a USB or as a primary internal drive). Then I have to shut it down and I can install it in my '08 as either a primary or external usb drive and it will boot fine but only once.
If it shuts down or sleeps I won't be able to recover and I will have to boot the drive from another mac.
I first thought it was my bootcamp partition that was creating havoc, so I installed OSX on another one of my MacBooks (sister's '10 13" unibody) and erased the whole drive including the bootcamp. This did not fix the problem.
I can always boot to single user mode. Verbose boot hangs at assigning EN1 - which I find weird.
Most of the hardware is functional including:
Magsafe
Battery
speakers
bluetooth
trackpad
keyboard
backlight
isight
left usb port
headphones/mic
dvi out
lan port
cd drive
display (led brightness increases/decreases fine)
Non functional hardware:
right usb port
Unsure since I don't have either one of these drives:
Firewire ports
I have of course also tried SMC and PRAM resets
