A few months ago my 2010 White Macbook (A1342) would no longer boot up but would give me the spinning circle and then give me the grey screen of death. I replaced the logic board with another one. When I tested it it actually booted up into the OS but I had no keyboard or trackpad control. The hard drive was one from a different Macbook so the I thought maybe it was just freaking out from loading into an OS that had been transplanted from a different computer. So, I took the hard drive out, formatted it, put in back in and tried to install Snow Leopard from a flash drive.
When I pressed the alt key I did get the option to load the flash drive which I did but then the grey screen of death came up again. I tried again, same thing. I tried without the flash drive thinking I would get the folder with the question mark on the screen but the grey screen of death.
The hard drive is different, the logic board is different, the ram is upgraded (2x4), new battery, even the new hard drive connect cable.
Would could be causing this constant screen of death? How come I could boot into the OS the first time, after replacing the logic board, but after that I just keep getting he screen of death again just like before changing the logic board?Is it possible that the 2nd logicboard was fried by whatever the try source of the issue is?
The folks at the genuis bar refuse to look at it, I am perplexed as to how to figure out what the issue is?. Please note that none of the keyboard commands seems to work apart from the alt key.
Does anyone have any advice on how to go about diagnosing what the issue is? I have a 2012 Macbook pro which is what I am using now, but I want to give the 2010 White Macbook to my niece.
Thanks for the help.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
When I pressed the alt key I did get the option to load the flash drive which I did but then the grey screen of death came up again. I tried again, same thing. I tried without the flash drive thinking I would get the folder with the question mark on the screen but the grey screen of death.
The hard drive is different, the logic board is different, the ram is upgraded (2x4), new battery, even the new hard drive connect cable.
Would could be causing this constant screen of death? How come I could boot into the OS the first time, after replacing the logic board, but after that I just keep getting he screen of death again just like before changing the logic board?Is it possible that the 2nd logicboard was fried by whatever the try source of the issue is?
The folks at the genuis bar refuse to look at it, I am perplexed as to how to figure out what the issue is?. Please note that none of the keyboard commands seems to work apart from the alt key.
Does anyone have any advice on how to go about diagnosing what the issue is? I have a 2012 Macbook pro which is what I am using now, but I want to give the 2010 White Macbook to my niece.
Thanks for the help.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)