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Blinking Question Mark - Mid 2009 MacBook Pro
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1849264" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Welcome to our forums.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for providing what troubleshooting steps you went through.</p><p></p><p>I would have suggested replacing the drive and the SATA cable but I see that you already did that. Also, it appears that you tried to boot from an external drive.</p><p></p><p>That leaves us with very little to go on. What I suspect is that you may have a failed GPU and is preventing startup. You didn't give us the exact model MacBook Pro you have, but the model year (2009) through 2011 were plagued with GPU problems. Apple even had a recall with free repair for those models but that has long expired.</p><p></p><p>You might want to do some googling about a failed GPU for your particular MacBook Pro and see how others have dealt with it. However, it might be a good idea to think about replacing your MacBook Pro with something much newer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1849264, member: 46727"] Welcome to our forums. Thanks for providing what troubleshooting steps you went through. I would have suggested replacing the drive and the SATA cable but I see that you already did that. Also, it appears that you tried to boot from an external drive. That leaves us with very little to go on. What I suspect is that you may have a failed GPU and is preventing startup. You didn't give us the exact model MacBook Pro you have, but the model year (2009) through 2011 were plagued with GPU problems. Apple even had a recall with free repair for those models but that has long expired. You might want to do some googling about a failed GPU for your particular MacBook Pro and see how others have dealt with it. However, it might be a good idea to think about replacing your MacBook Pro with something much newer. [/QUOTE]
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