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Macbook Unibody Mid 2010 Left Shift Stuck no Boot
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<blockquote data-quote="Joematarazz" data-source="post: 1799783" data-attributes="member: 219134"><p>Hello everyone,</p><p></p><p>I am new to this forum and kinda new to macs advanced troubleshooting so bare with me. I bought a macbook unibody mid 2010 with a stuck left shift key. I found steps in another forum on how to skip the stuck shift key and avoid the constant "safe-boot". I was able to install Karabiner to disable the left shift key once logged in. I also set up the Firmware password so I would not need to hold the option key to avoid the safe-boot. All was working OK until I was messing with the partitions (Remove BOOTCAMP and Linux from the hard drive and expand the OS X HFS+ partition. Oh failed to mention (OS X Lion 10.7.5). </p><p></p><p>While removing the older partitions to make space for target OSX, upon reboot I got the flashing folder with ? in it. After several attempts, I decided to just install OS fresh from scratch but here is the frustration. It will not boot into ANYTHING, I mean no boot key strokes work, OPtion key doesn't bring the Boot manager, T, D, Cmd Opt P R, NOTHING!! So I decided to disconnect the laptop keyboard and connect a USB one (Still Apple KB from an iMac). I powered the laptop board from the two pins on the board (Power button is disconnected too when on board KB is disconnected). Same issue. </p><p></p><p>It will not BOOT from OS X Lion DVD. I know the DVD works because I have used on a couple of other Macbooks A1181. I know the DVD player on this particular Macbook works because when I had it working, it would read it just fine. I do remember, when I didn't have the Firmware password setup, I could use the key strokes for R, etc. If I try SuperDuper or Carbon Copy from a working mac and clone the partitions to the hard drive, I still get the flashing folder. One ONLY way I could get the boot into something is to restore the Boot DMG file for OS X 10.6.3 onto the SATA Drive (I tried USB but Option won't bring the boot manager). When I boot from the SATA drive with the Installer on it, it comes on but I cannot Install the OS on the same source drive so I can't do much there. I tried to remove the firmware password while in the Installer but is as if it can't detect it, and it asks to setup a new one. I did that and poof, flashing folder upon reboot. </p><p></p><p>How in the world do I get this thing clear??? I do have the firmware password, just can't bring that up or get to remove it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joematarazz, post: 1799783, member: 219134"] Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and kinda new to macs advanced troubleshooting so bare with me. I bought a macbook unibody mid 2010 with a stuck left shift key. I found steps in another forum on how to skip the stuck shift key and avoid the constant "safe-boot". I was able to install Karabiner to disable the left shift key once logged in. I also set up the Firmware password so I would not need to hold the option key to avoid the safe-boot. All was working OK until I was messing with the partitions (Remove BOOTCAMP and Linux from the hard drive and expand the OS X HFS+ partition. Oh failed to mention (OS X Lion 10.7.5). While removing the older partitions to make space for target OSX, upon reboot I got the flashing folder with ? in it. After several attempts, I decided to just install OS fresh from scratch but here is the frustration. It will not boot into ANYTHING, I mean no boot key strokes work, OPtion key doesn't bring the Boot manager, T, D, Cmd Opt P R, NOTHING!! So I decided to disconnect the laptop keyboard and connect a USB one (Still Apple KB from an iMac). I powered the laptop board from the two pins on the board (Power button is disconnected too when on board KB is disconnected). Same issue. It will not BOOT from OS X Lion DVD. I know the DVD works because I have used on a couple of other Macbooks A1181. I know the DVD player on this particular Macbook works because when I had it working, it would read it just fine. I do remember, when I didn't have the Firmware password setup, I could use the key strokes for R, etc. If I try SuperDuper or Carbon Copy from a working mac and clone the partitions to the hard drive, I still get the flashing folder. One ONLY way I could get the boot into something is to restore the Boot DMG file for OS X 10.6.3 onto the SATA Drive (I tried USB but Option won't bring the boot manager). When I boot from the SATA drive with the Installer on it, it comes on but I cannot Install the OS on the same source drive so I can't do much there. I tried to remove the firmware password while in the Installer but is as if it can't detect it, and it asks to setup a new one. I did that and poof, flashing folder upon reboot. How in the world do I get this thing clear??? I do have the firmware password, just can't bring that up or get to remove it. [/QUOTE]
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