Macbook has failed me, rufuses to boot.

after 10.5.2 two days ago, my macbook booted up regularly. however after the additional leopard graphics update last night, it no longer boots up at all. i have to use this ****** vista to report the problem. my macbook is right beside me, with nothing but a plain blue screen. occasionaly the mouse cursor appears for about 30 seconds, then dissapears and the screen remains blue. what can i do? if i cant log in apple cant update my mac!!! help!!!

Maybe somebody else could help you with recovering your machine, because from your description I dont know how you would go about doing that. You could run the 'macosx install disk 1'. Just pop it in, and hold down the c key while re-booting. This will boot your macbook directly from the disk. From there you can try the apple hardware test to see if any of your hardware isnt working. You could also try re-installing leopard if it came down to it.

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