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MBP problem
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<blockquote data-quote="C7AEA" data-source="post: 945432" data-attributes="member: 132051"><p>Thanks for the response.</p><p></p><p>After a few hours to calm down a little and get some rest (I stayed up all night since 2am trying to figure out as much as I could) I now have a working computer again. I was able to get the snow leopard install CD to boot after a trying a bunch of key combinations. In the end it was only holding down just the "option" key that worked. (from what I read I thought holding down option+c would do it) It allowed me to choose which drive I wanted to boot from then enter my firmware password. Then using MYmacROX response I used the disk utility to check the drive and repair permissions. After that I re installed snow leopard and it worked! Maybe regular leopard failed because I already upgraded. Anyways, it was a tariffing few hours, I dont have too much data to loose, pics mostly. All my music is on an external drive. However, it would take hours to re download and set up everything how I like it. It just was an awful feeling to be looking at a 3k massive paper weight with a blue screen. I think I will be asking Santa for a time capsule this year lol. </p><p>So if any one else has this problem where non of the other start up command keys dont seem to work try holding down just the option button during start up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="C7AEA, post: 945432, member: 132051"] Thanks for the response. After a few hours to calm down a little and get some rest (I stayed up all night since 2am trying to figure out as much as I could) I now have a working computer again. I was able to get the snow leopard install CD to boot after a trying a bunch of key combinations. In the end it was only holding down just the "option" key that worked. (from what I read I thought holding down option+c would do it) It allowed me to choose which drive I wanted to boot from then enter my firmware password. Then using MYmacROX response I used the disk utility to check the drive and repair permissions. After that I re installed snow leopard and it worked! Maybe regular leopard failed because I already upgraded. Anyways, it was a tariffing few hours, I dont have too much data to loose, pics mostly. All my music is on an external drive. However, it would take hours to re download and set up everything how I like it. It just was an awful feeling to be looking at a 3k massive paper weight with a blue screen. I think I will be asking Santa for a time capsule this year lol. So if any one else has this problem where non of the other start up command keys dont seem to work try holding down just the option button during start up. [/QUOTE]
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