Help:My MBP died. Does it pay to fix it?

My mid-2009 13" MBP died the other day. Was stuck on grey startup with circle and slash through it ( like international no sign that you would see for smoking but in grey). After posting about it all were in agreement that my Hard Drive was probably the issue. Received my new Crucial SSD today. Installed it no issue. Formatted it no issue. Tried to restore from Time Capsule and was told that my backup was corrupted. Not too worried as I had everything backed up and had the disc for the 10.5. Leopard that originally came with the computer. Thought I would install the OSX then go through the process of upgrading and installing everything else.
I had just successfully completed the new installation of the OSX (absolutely no issues). I then received an error message and the machine shut down with the darkening curtain coming in top to bottom. Now, it will power on to the Apple logo but no spinning time clock below. Cannot boot to recovery by Command-r.
Thoughts about what could be wrong? Seems like an issue bigger than my hard drive. Does it pay to put money into this computer at this point? I am sure just having someone diagnose the issue will be several hundred dollars.
Thanks for all your thoughts.

Scottadel wrote:
.....had the disc for the 10.5. Leopard that originally came with the computer. Thought I would install the OSX then go through the process of upgrading and installing everything else.
First off you installed 10.5 on a machine that the firmware has been changed.
Believe it or not, you could have installed 10.6 from the disk too, it's a full OS X 10.6.3 minus the free iLife, just hold the option key to boot from it. This would have been better as 10.5 has been mothballed basically.
You can extract your free iLife from the 10.5 disks with Pacifist from CharlesSoft.
Thought I would install the OSX then go through the process of upgrading and installing everything else.
Does this mean you installed 10.5, then upgraded to 10.6, then upgraded to 10.7?
I then received an error message and the machine shut down with the darkening curtain coming in top to bottom.
That's a kernel panic. Could have come from third party software (if you installed it), or else it's bad OS X install somewhere along the line.
Now, it will power on to the Apple logo but no spinning time clock below. Cannot boot to recovery by Command-r.
Command r "Recovery Partition" only works in 10.7 and 10.8, so if 10.7 didn't get installed, you don't have one as it's a new boot drive.
If you only got 10.5 on that machine it could be because 10.5's time there was no SSD's.
You need to use the 10.6.3 disk, erase the entire drive and format OS X Extended Journaled, install 10.6.3 and Software Update to 10.6.8. before doing 10.7 or 10.8.
Check out my User Tips here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents
BTW Apple can't help you as it's your SSD. If you want them to take care of it, remove the SSD and have them place their own new hard drive in there, test the machine and install 10.7 or 10.8, then if the machine is fine, take it home and use Carbon Copy Cloner with SATA to USB adapter, erase and clone to the SSD and try that.
Also because SSD;'s are rather new, there might be some more tricks like enabling TRIM etc. on them or it could be a problem with that particular SSD and Macs.
See MacOwnersSupportGroup, they have more experience with SSD's.

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