Macbook pro late 2009 turns on twice and black screen with no booting
my macbook pro late 2009 (10.6.7) when i press the power button it turns on, then it turns off by itself and then on again and gets a black screen and nothing more no booting sound and i just hear the fans or the Hard Drive going... i really need help with this one
Hello aB_Cepeda
For issues with your MacBook Pro not starting up, check out the articles below as they pertain to issues with start up. The big thing to look for to troubleshoot is to see if you can boot to either your Installation Disk or Recovery HD. If you can, try using Disk Utility to verify your hard drive to make sure that there are no issues. You may need to reinstall Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
OS X: Gray progress bar appears under Apple logo during startup
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3148
Mac OS X 10.6: Reinstalling Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6606
Regards,
-Norm G.
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