MacBook Pro 2008 Late issues

Sigh! My MacBook Pro
Hi Guys
I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro(Uni body). Friday my machine decided its taking a long weekend and just froze up. I reboot my machine and waited for a while for it to boot. It got to the login screen where I normaly type my password in and login. The keyboard and track pad was not responding at all. Then after about 2 or 3mins the track pad started working in the sence that the mouse pointer moved around but no click function. Keyboard and track pad starts working after about 12 - 15 mins if you just leave it. I manage to login and notice that the CPU usage on CPU 1 is at 100% then it dropped then CPU 2 went to 100% then it dropped then both went to 100% and my machine froze. No service running in the backgroud that I could pickup that's using so much CPU at one time. Strange..
Then I decided to try and reinstall my machine and hopefully that would sort the problem out. Not so! Reinstalled the machine and at the end of the installation it gives you a error "Installation Failed - Could not set Machintosh HD as the boot drive". Mmm..
So then I just reboot my machine and held down the "alt" key to see if I can see my boot hard drive. Sees the drive. I select the drive and it starts to boot. The Apple logo comes up with the spinning wheel and after some time the wheel just freezes. It manage to go past the Apple screen and actually get to where you setup your account info but the screen was all dimed for some reason and the machine was very slow.
After that I just gave up and took it in this morning to the service center for them to have a look at. I think its something on the Logicboard the went all bonkers. Hopefully they can get it srted out and I can work again...
orginal post - http://appleyeti.co.za/showthread.php?14-Sigh-My-MacBook-Pro

I had this same issue until a few minutes ago -- takes longer than usual to start up, but when I finally got my desktop, even though I could move the arrow around, everything was unresponsive. My keyboard was not accepting key commands, but oddly enough the transparent audio output symbol would show up when I press F11/F12, although it was crossed out indicating that there was no device.
I rebooted, but same issue, as well as with a guest user account. Booted in safe mode and turned my dock hiding off (to show dock) - turned hiding just the other day for the heck of it but haven't rebooted until I attempted just now - and I then did what you suggested and held down "D" upon rebooting and everything's back to normal.
Not sure if it was holding down "D" or turning hiding off, but all seems well now. I know the dock is a kind of background process in itself so maybe there was a bug but that shouldn't explain the audio problem.
I don't know if this helps, but that's my story for today.

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