My 2007 MacBook pro won't boot up beyond a White screen any ideas what to do?
My 2007 MacBook pro won't boot up beyond a White screen any ideas what to do?
Odd how this hasn't been archived yet.
I'm getting the same thing with my Macbook, but can't boot past the white screen. An Apple store in KS suggested I needed a new hard drive, but I've already put two in there and it's still doing the same thing. I really don't want to buy another motherboard like I had to a couple of years ago.
My choices are either buy a cheap drive to boot from and remove the current one to put into an external case, or save the money by not buying a new motherboard and putting it as a down payment toward a Mac mini.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1388
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