TS1367 MacBook Pro startup problems?

My MacBook pro (late 2008 model upgraded with OSX lion) locked up on me, now it will turn on and start to boot up but when progress bar is about half finished it shuts down? Any advice short of taking it to Apple store/genius?

I have a problem where the start up starts for a while and then the screen goes black. It is like the machine is asleep. In order to try again you have to hold the power button down to shut down. I have re installed lion and it works fine, but as soon as it updates, the problems starts again

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OK I am an idiot for trying to update to Yosemite which basically killed my laptop. After a long time of trying everything I eventually deleted and reformatted the hd and reinstalled maverick + data from Time Machine (via internet recovery). But still the problem seems to persist more or less identically after working ok for some hours.
I opened up the laptop this morning and the screen was just blank and I couldn’t restart (just got the grey screen). I can open up in safe mode but there is some very strange behaviour. At the moment the screen is divided in half with the r side on the L and the L side on the R. This is new, no weird screen issues before (except the grey screen on startup).
I have tried internet recovery again to use disc utility, the disc verifies fine. There is something strange going on with the permissions though - 2 permissions need repairing and I repair them but when I re-verify they need repairing again. I have repaired them about 10 times now but have no idea if they are connected with my problems or not.
Anyway I am at a total loss to know what is wrong or what I can do about it and getting desperate (I need to work!!). Any ideas?

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take one of the actions that you're having trouble with. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Macbook Pro startup problems

Recently, I accidentally closed the lid of my MBP before it shutdown completely. Usually, this would cause a problem on the startup the next time where I would push the power button and the only thing happening is the light on the latch button would be half lit and you could hear the fan or some other components startup. The screen will not turn on and nothing else happens.
It's been happening with increasing frequency now. Can anyone help?

This seems to have happened to me now, also. I had just finished installing an update to my external FW800 HD (Western Digital MyBookPro 500GB). The installer said the installation was successful, but then my MyBook icon disappeared, and a dialog box came up saying the drive was disconnected unexpectedly. I clicked the go-away button, then I got the dimmed wipe-down saying I had to power off my machine by holding down the power button at least 5 seconds. I obeyed. The screen has been completely dark ever since.
Now, I can't get further than a half-dim latchlight. None of the startup key combinations work (I opened up the article and tried them all). I reset the SMC/PMU to no avail. Another early symptom was that the DVD drive was making a repeating racket like it was looking for a disk, but couldn't find one. I followed the troubleshooting guide to the point where it says to try to boot from the install disk (pressing "c"). The sign of life was that when I got the disk about 75% in, it grabbed the disk like normal, but then silence. So, it ate my Install DVD. Like all the other keys, the eject button doesn't work.
I should note a few things. I noticed that the machine would heat up, but I couldn't hear any drive activity after initally inserting the DVD. There's a quiet spin like a fan or maybe the HD idling, but no sounds of activity. I tried leaving it on (latchlight solid and dim) for more than an hour, and also leaving it off and unplugged for more than an hour.
I tried an old trick that used to work on a PowerBook G3 of plugging in a USB device as a way to interrupt a stall. I tried booting from the network. I scanned through these forums and saw quite a few recent posts like this.
The only service trouble this MBP-17 has had in the past 15 months is a swolen battery that was replaced back in May-June. I had no trouble with the new battery.
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I bought in America a new Macbook Pro with me already 8mj:
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4, 1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
SMC Version: 1.28f1
GeForce 8600M GT 512mb GeForce 8600M GT 512MB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM 2 pieces
Size: 1 GB
Speed: 667 MHz Speed: 667 MHz
sometimes my ignition pocme blow 2puta quickly and fit 1s and thus prove it does not poweroff, the display has no image.
or when booting the mistake occurs in the image:
sometimes when booting the error as shown in the picture!
but more frequently happens that does not powered up LCD! ONLY PROVIDES NOTICE ACOUSTICAL 2puta quickly and fit 1s, etc. ...
When it poweroff so again uplalim all work properly and I do not have any more problems! After re-ignition occurs again, the same situation!
I have made a hardware test and reinstalira OS X Leopard 10.5.6 Update! but again the same story, says that everything ok!
There is no additional peripherals except that I ordered from the apple store to upgrade my 1G still working memory SDRMA 667MHz
Thank you prayed that we would help someone because I do not know whom to turn to more ...
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Hi Experts!!
My macbook pro startup time is now 25 to 35 sec and yesterday it was 15 sec. I know its not a drastic change but still i would like to bring it back to 15 sec!!
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Oct 14 22:52:03 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
Oct 14 22:52:20 localhost bootlog[40]: BOOT_TIME: 1350235322 0
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Oct 14 22:52:27 localhost configd[13]: DHCP en1: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
Oct 14 22:52:27 localhost configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Oct 14 22:52:34: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Oct 14 22:52:34 localhost loginwindow[29]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Oct 14 22:52:34 localhost com.apple.WindowServer[55]: Sun Oct 14 22:52:34 localhost WindowServer[55] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Oct 14 22:52:34 localhost WindowServer[55]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Oct 14 22:52:39 localhost SecurityAgent[75]: NSSecureTextFieldCell detected a field editor ((null)) that is not a NSTextView subclass designed to work with the cell. Ignoring...
Oct 14 22:52:39 localhost loginwindow[29]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
Oct 14 22:52:39 localhost loginwindow[29]: USER_PROCESS: 29 console
Oct 14 22:52:39 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[79] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
Oct 14 22:52:40 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[79] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[99]): Exited with exit code: 1
Oct 14 22:52:41 localhost com.hp.messagecenter.launcher[102]: ThrottleProcessIO: throttling disk i/o
Oct 14 22:52:44 localhost ntpd[19]: time reset +0.729949 s
If we look at above log i can see few seconds wasted on kCGErrorFailure. Can anyone suggest on how to remove this error from my MBP OS X 10.6.3?
Thanks

Thanks for the update.
Upgraded to 10.6.8 combo and still KCG errors exist.
Also i can now see new error after upgrade as below:
Oct 17 14:49:22 localhost WindowServer[66]: Unable to open IOHIDSystem (0xe00002bd)
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Marlons-MacBook-Pro:~ ryanmnhs$ ls -la ~/Library/LaunchAgents
total 40
drwx------   7 ryanmnhs staff   238 5 Nov 23:09 .
drwx------@ 48 ryanmnhs staff 1632 13 Jan 09:53 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 ryanmnhs staff   574 24 Oct 22:29 com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 ryanmnhs staff   618 22 Oct 2011 com.apple.AddressBook.ScheduledSync.PHXCardDAVSource.BAF380D0-E780-4E82-86BF-77 2440AB4936.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 ryanmnhs staff   895 4 Sep 2011 [email protected].plist
-rw-r--r--   1 ryanmnhs staff   802 21 Mar 12:56 com.facebook.videochat.ryanmnhs.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 ryanmnhs staff   805 6 Sep 2011 com.google.keystone.agent.plist
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I've been having some random problems with my MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 rpm hard drive, ATI Radeon X1600 graphics). Specifically:
1. Lines across the screen and purple boxes sometimes appear.
2. The graphic effects (e.g. zooming a window) sometimes get "frozen" on the screen. In other words a remnant from the animation will stay until the window is refreshed.
3. The Mac sometimes freezes during the startup process. Sometimes the login screen will be unresponsive and other times the Mac will almost bootup but fail when loading startup items.
4. Less frequently the Mac will freeze randomly. I previously had iStat Menus installed and each time the MacBook Pro froze up it indicated both read and write disk activities.
Yesterday I decided to wipe the machine clean and start from scratch in case there were a software issue or corruption on the hard drive that was causing my woes. I completely erased my hard drive and even zeroed the entire disk to make sure everything was completely wiped out. I also disconnected all peripherals to simplify things as much as possible.
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I've tried running disk tests with Drive Genius 2.1, but no errors have been reported. I've also used the freeware Rember program to run memory tests but have yet to see any errors. Sometimes my Mac powers up without any problems and once it's powered up it often stays running for days. The display issues appear quite frequently. I've using iStat Menus to keep an eye on the temperature sensors and everything appears to be normal - so it doesn't appear to be temperature related.
Fortunately the computer's still covered under the extended AppleCare warranty, but I would like to have some idea what's going on before I take it in just in case they're not able to reproduce the issues.
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Hi. Over the last few days i have been having problems with my MacBook Pro starting up. If i put it to sleep it will not wake up, just get a blank screen and if i turn it off, it will not boot. I can hear the drive spin up, the chime sounds, but just get a blank screen. The apple logo is not illuminated and the caps lock key illuminates when pressed. The only way to get it to boot is to turn it off and on repeatedly around 30 times and then itll boot up and work fine. My battery was pretty bad so thought this might be the cause but after replacing it, its still the same. Its running 10.8.2 and i think its a late 2010 MacBook?

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TS1367 MacBook Pro startup problems?

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