Help - Grey wheel with progress bar on start up and then Macbook Pro turns of.
So i recently bought a Macbook Pro 13 inch (the lower end). While doing my research i found the smartest thing to have a relatively fast macbook was to increase the ram. I bought http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148345 and installed it in my macbook pro. After starting up the macbook, i got to my login screen. However, everytime the computer would try to start up to my account, i would get a blue screen and then be brough back to my login page for the account. I assumed that the RAM was not fitted properly since my research indicated that it was most likely the problem. I re-installed the RAM sticks with more force but to no avail. Then i even switched the RAM sticks while installing to make sure that either one of my new RAM chips was not faulty but after a while, my MBP refuses to start up. I get the grey apple logo, with a spinning wheel and progress bar. The bar goes a quarter length before the laptop shuts off. I then put it in the original RAM sticks, but the same problem. Apple logo, spinning wheel, progress bar and then powers off. Any suggestions or thoughts as to what may have happened? Thank you!
Last night the electricity went out and my power surge protector was not working so my iMac just force shut downed.
So, when the electricity came back i turned on my Mac but it is *Stuck in the Startup/Boot Screen with a Grey Apple Logo,a Empty Progress Bar with stays for 1 or 2 minutes and a small Spinning Wheel which would Spin Forver! I Have tried the SMC and Pram reset but no use, i have also tried to insert my OS X Lion 10.7 Installation disk and it would not load if i hold the C Key in the Startup, I Have Managed to go to Disk Utility Through "Recovery HD" but the Volume "Macintosh HD" is Greyed out and Unmounted and i cannot repair it. There are some files that i'd like to Recover if there is a way to fix it without deleting files.
**PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS!**
Details about the iMac:
iMac 21.5 Inch i think from Mid 2010,
OS X Lion installed maybe 10.7.2 or 10.7.3 (im not sure)
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