MacBook pro stuck at white screen right after the chime.

Hi, yesterday I partitioned my hard drive and made a different partition titled backtrack 5. I inserted the backtrack live DVD into my MacBook Withe the option at boot and it installed on that exact partition. Then I exited opted Mac sox again. Browsed the web a little. Then a little Netflix. Then I turned it off. Today I am trying to turn it on and well its stuck at the white screen after the boot. No apple logo, no world logo. Nothing. Just a white screen. I tried doing command r, option, shift. Nothing helped and there is still a DVD stuck inside and I can't do anything to eject it. So I don't know what to do. Please help. Please.

To get the stuck cd out of the sick Mac, reboot holding the trackpad button down, this should force a hardware eject.
Next your going to need another Mac on 10.7 with a Superdrive and cd's.
Your going to burn a cd of the EFI firmware, but you MUST know your exact make and model.
Download it here
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237
These are the instructions how to install the EFI firmware
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT2213
Now what this will do is put the correct firmware into the boot memory, which hopefully should hopefully allow you to command r boot into Recovery.
I don't know if this will write to the EFI parititon or not, replacing the hosed up mess there or not, you'll find out.
If you get into Recovery, your going to need to do this if you don't have a backup of your personal data off the machine.:
Create a data recovery, undelete boot drive

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If you cannot select Recovery HD at startup, problem is serious enough to take the MBP
to the nearest Apple store. They will help to resolve the issue.
Have you tried pressing option key down while starting the MBP?
Probably that has been tried already.
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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.
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I really hope, you're able to get your mbp up and running again. I know how utterly frustrating it is when it's not working and you have no idea why.

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For the past few days my MacBook Pro has been stuck on a white screen with the apple logo and I have tried everything. Does anybody know what I can to to get it to work normally again ?

Read over these articles for possible solutions:
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I have tried all i know to get this thing back to my desktop.
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If you can get it to boot from the install disc again (just keep trying), run Repair Disk (and also check S.M.A.R.T. status while you're in Disk Utility).
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MacBook Pro stuck on white screen.

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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?

Mac Pro stuck on white screen

Firstly, some details to save questions later:
Mac Pro 2006
Snow Leopard (latest update)
After using my Mac Pro as normal last night (no issues whatsoever), I go to boot it up today to find it is stuck on the white screen just after the Apple logo.
My first thought was that my OS drive had kicked the bucket and I'd need to resintall the OS. No biggie. So I attempt to boot from disk, holding "C" whilst booting - the same issue. Goes from the Apple logo to blank white screen.
So I try to boot from disk by holding Alt whilst loading to select drive and boot from the disk there - this time we just get stuck on a blue screen.
Strangely enough, the original OS drive DOES show in the list of available drives.
I have also tried booting in safe mode to no avail.
I've heard talk of video cards failing and causing issues similar to this, which could make sense considering in the last 6 months or so, my mac has had an awful habit of "forgetting" it's resolution, forcing me to restart it.
Can anyone else offer any suggestions?
I'd much rather avoid having to get a new video card unless this is 100% the fault with the mac.

The simplest thing your Mac can do is Alt/Option boot, because all the code for that function is in ROM. In that case, there is no Apple logo that appears, and the screen only goes to the list of available possibly-bootable Volumes, arrayed across the screen. If you are seeing the Apple logo (which is loaded off a Drive) you have not succeeded in Alt/Option booting.
Sometimes having the keyboard plugged into a Display or other Hub can cause the "snag keys" to be missed at Startup, and be ineffective.
If something interferes with your ability to Alt/Option boot, it is most likely to be the contents of your Hard Drive. If desperate, pull out the Boot drive and see if you can Alt/Option boot with only the DVD in the drive.

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.
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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.
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Follow these documents.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1440
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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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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I Own a brand new iMac 5k with retina display. It gets stuck in the black screen right after the apple logo And all of a sudden shuts down.

You can return a new Mac within 14 days of purchase.
A new Mac is in warranty for 1 year from the date of purchase.
A new Mac comes with 90 days of free tech support from AppleCare.
AppleCare: 1-800-275-2273
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