10.5.3 Update Crashed Now no boot + clicking noise

There seems to be many similar problems to mine posted, but the solutions there aren't helping.
My software update crashed at 86%. I assume it was installing 10.5.3 but I didn't see that specified. Since then, I have not been able to get past the grey screen and the spinning gear. I've tried the following:
1) Hard restart and then booting into safe mode (holding shift).... no dice
2) Holding option after a hard restart and booting with the system disk. From there I ran the disk check. I got a "this drive is okay" (or something to that effect) but the disk utility wouldn't let me out. I had to foce quit the disk utility.
3) After another hard reset, I tried repairing disk permissions. It stalled a third of the way in. Had to do another hard reset.
*The scariest part is that when I see the grey screen (and also when I got stalls after 2 and 3 above), the macbook started softly clicking at me.*
Is the computer screwed or did Apple totally botch the 10.5.3 updater? Is my computer now caught in limbo, having had the updater crash?
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munjumba wrote:
There seems to be many similar problems to mine posted, but the solutions there aren't helping.
My software update crashed at 86%. I assume it was installing 10.5.3 but I didn't see that specified. Since then, I have not been able to get past the grey screen and the spinning gear. I've tried the following:
1) Hard restart and then booting into safe mode (holding shift).... no dice
2) Holding option after a hard restart and booting with the system disk. From there I ran the disk check. I got a "this drive is okay" (or something to that effect) but the disk utility wouldn't let me out. I had to foce quit the disk utility.
3) After another hard reset, I tried repairing disk permissions. It stalled a third of the way in. Had to do another hard reset.
*The scariest part is that when I see the grey screen (and also when I got stalls after 2 and 3 above), the macbook started softly clicking at me.*
Is the computer screwed or did Apple totally botch the 10.5.3 updater? Is my computer now caught in limbo, having had the updater crash?
I think your HD is bad. Downloading a large file such as 10.5.3 may show up a HD defect that downloading smaller files does not. Many times the "top" of our HD is not used and may be bad without us noticing anything. But when we download a large file which attempts to write over a bad area of the HD, we see a problem.
I would boot into your Leopard DVD and run DU from it, repairing both the HD and the permissions.
Any HD errors would indicate to me a need to replace the HD ASAP.
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