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2011 15" MBP won't boot
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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee365" data-source="post: 1248211" data-attributes="member: 193330"><p>Running stock everything, including single boot system. Havn't made any changes at all in the past couple of weeks as far as uninstalling or installing software. Last week the machine wouldn't come out of sleep or hibernate (whichever it reverts to when left open for a while) without closing and opening the screen a couple of times and hitting the power button. Today I powered up the machine and a grey progress bar appeared at the bottom of the grey screen. The bar progresses about 1cm across the screen, freezes there, starts over, goes 1cm over again then shuts down automatically. It will not let me boot by holding C down with the setup CD in the drive. I've tried booting in safe mode and resetting the PRAM. I then called Apple Care and he had me do the same things and they all failed. It will let your boot into the diagnostic mode by holding D while booting. However, the AHT will freeze near the end of the test and freeze there until you force shutdown. It freezes near the end of the quick and long tests. </p><p></p><p>On top of this our backup external drive failed a few months ago and we havn't been able to afford a new one so we have no backups of the machine. Any ideas of what is going on? The Apple Care rep said I have to go to a Genius Bar and let them work on it. I'm a bit ****** to say the least when my 4 year old thinkpad I throw all over the country runs like a top and our new $2200 top of the line machine is sitting in it's original box dead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banshee365, post: 1248211, member: 193330"] Running stock everything, including single boot system. Havn't made any changes at all in the past couple of weeks as far as uninstalling or installing software. Last week the machine wouldn't come out of sleep or hibernate (whichever it reverts to when left open for a while) without closing and opening the screen a couple of times and hitting the power button. Today I powered up the machine and a grey progress bar appeared at the bottom of the grey screen. The bar progresses about 1cm across the screen, freezes there, starts over, goes 1cm over again then shuts down automatically. It will not let me boot by holding C down with the setup CD in the drive. I've tried booting in safe mode and resetting the PRAM. I then called Apple Care and he had me do the same things and they all failed. It will let your boot into the diagnostic mode by holding D while booting. However, the AHT will freeze near the end of the test and freeze there until you force shutdown. It freezes near the end of the quick and long tests. On top of this our backup external drive failed a few months ago and we havn't been able to afford a new one so we have no backups of the machine. Any ideas of what is going on? The Apple Care rep said I have to go to a Genius Bar and let them work on it. I'm a bit ****** to say the least when my 4 year old thinkpad I throw all over the country runs like a top and our new $2200 top of the line machine is sitting in it's original box dead. [/QUOTE]
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