MacBook keeps going to white screen

My MacBook is stuck on a white screen and looks like it is trying to load, but won't do anything including power down? Anybody else have this issue and know what it is and what to do?

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bcoady90 wrote:
My guess is a loose connection.
I suspect you are correct. I would suggest you bring it to a repair facility that may have better diagnostic tools, preferably an Apple store genius bar.
Ciao.

Macbook pro show only white screen.

Hello,
Just one month ago, i got macbook pro,
Recently i installed windows 8 on macbook and i made three partition by Disk Utility. Whatever it was working perfetly.
After that i start windows 8 and tried to deleted number three partition by administration tool from windows. After that all partition shown yellow colour, then i resart the macbook pro. But now macbook pro only show white screen.
I holded option key, their only show window partition, no Recovery HD. On my macbook pro i have many important which i do not want to lose data.
Macbook Pro Model No: A1286, OS X: 10.6 (May be), 2.6GHz processor
I am new user of mac. Please give me easy solution for me.
I am live in Bangladesh. Is there any service center of MacBook? if there has, it gives free service for my problem.
Shomon

Follow these documents.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1440
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
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Select the EXTERNAL DRIVE and Erase, format HFS+ Journaled GUID partition.
When that's completed quit Disk Utility and your back in the OS X installer, install OS X on the EXTERNAL DRIVE.
When that's complete quit and reboot hold down the OPTION KEY and select the External drive to boot from.
Now GRAB THOSE FILES!!!
After that you can do what you want to the boot drive, if you can't fix it, you can always install OS X again (without formatting) and it should leave your programs and files alone. But if something goes wrong you have a copy on the external drive.
If for some reason you can't access your internal drive, either booted from the install disk in Disk Utility or via the external drive, it's possible your hard drive died.

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Gus@MaggiesFarm,
try this: boot your MacBook Pro into Recovery mode by holding down a Command key and the R key as it starts up. Once the Mac OS X Utilities menu appears, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Does it get past the white screen now?

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ok, so basically i have a macbook 10.6.4 Snow Lepoard that is making me want to literally bash its brains out but, unfortunatly i cant because it is owened by the school...
As mentioned in previous posts, my school It dept are incredibly slow and their idea of fixing something is to wipe everthing and reinstall all the programs once again. if that dosent work their other way of fixing something is to send it off to apple. for obveous reasons i want to avoid that.
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well i went to hand it in today but the fails that we call 'the qualified IT deptarment' (even though they are only two), decided to take the day off. they were supposed to be there recess and lunch but the room was pitch black.
When you say that "you do not need admin rights to perform the different solution", i actually am the admin of the laptop but there is another hidden admin so that they can change any settings in the computer without our passwords.
i have previously tried that whole command letter thing for various other things such as safe mode and starting from the disk and have had no sucess. i dont know if my timing is off or something but it never works. however, i have been able to retrive a disk from the disk drive by pressing the mouse button when it turns on.
this is an exerpt from a previous post:
favvi wrote:
so im really starting to get annoyed now. I have tried that single user mode start up thing (command + s) after the chime, before the chime, hold it down for a second, hold it down forever BUT IT ALWAYS JUST GOES INTO MY LOGIN SCREEN!!! i cant seem to get around this. I cant get into the 'utilities' from my install disk because it asks for an admin name and password. i am literally tearing my hair out…
Barney-15E:
That doesn't make any sense. When it boots to the install disk, there is no user to authenticate.
Does it have an Open Firmware password set?
i assumed that this was set. but to be honest i have no freaking idea.
also i was talking to a friend today and she said that she had the same issue and they had to replace the battery. although i have no idead on how the battery could be affecting this?

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Hi, I had this exact same problem with my 15in mbp just before Christmas. I shut it down one afternoon, and then later in the day switched it back on. It wouldn't boot past the white/grey screen. It wouldn't even get as far as the apple symbol. I tried to start it up several times, but to no avail.
I called up apple support, and they had me run through various keyboard combinations at start up. Nothing worked. According to my observations and the apple telephone operator's knowledge, it was as if the keyboard wasn't booting up at all during the startup sequence, hence it was not responding to the key combinations. There was no fix available over the phone and the advice given to me was to take it to an Apple Store to have the keyboard replaced. Living in Prague Czech Rep, as I am, there is no apple store, only one reseller, which I resolved to take my mbp to the next day.
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Macbook Crashed and Only White Screen Now!!! Please HELP!

Hey guys,
I'm sorry if this problem has already been posted and have been answered but can someone help me too!
Just 10 minutes ago i was using my macbook. everything perfect as normal after 8 months right now and then i was just on my itunes and surfing the net at the same time and then all the sudden my macbook frooze on me and the spinning rainbow was my mouse and like the music paused as well.
and then it wouldnt let me force quit or anything so then i just held the power button and it turned off. but before i did... all i could hear was the harddrive or .. maybe something else... bottom right corner of the macbook so right side to the mousepad. it kept making cracking noises .
then after 10 seconds i turned it on again and the mac start up sound ...sounded and then it was just a white blank screen. and then the cracking noise kept going and then after awhile of nothing i tried restarting it again and again and finally at this one time it gave me the Folder with the ?!!
and then i read the manual and it said to put in the cd. so i did and it doesnt even read it.. its just a white screen
I dont know whats wrong! im only on the 8th month!will apple fix this? i have all my lecture notes on it and .. my exams are 2 weeks from now!
Please help me! im sorry about my spelling and grammer!
Thanks in advance !

Hey all!
Well I went with the problem that it was my hard drive and since i was still under the 1 year warranty i thought i would just call apple up for fun!!
They were nice enough to answer my questions without me going for the Apple Care for $299.99 or $59.99 that call and said i went through everything and it seems like i've been doing a good job but it must be the hard drive.
So then i bought it into a Authorize Apple Dealer and they fixed it up for me.
However, they said its usually a 99% that they cant recover my hard drive, which came to a bummer because i lost all my lecture notes and a project that i was working on thats due tomorrow :S!!
but hey !! its like brand new again
just wanted to share my story so that atleast if you have the same problem! It might be similar to my situation.

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