Macbook White Screen (and nothing else happens after that)
Hi All,
I have a problem with my wife's macbook (which is exactly 13 months old, Aargh!)
She was having some problem with slow apps etc, so decided to restart, the restart didnt go through so she tried holding down the power button to force shut down.
When she tried to restart it several seconds later, it chimes but it gets stuck on a white/grey screen with nothing on it, not even the Apple logo. Something started whirring louder and louder for the first 2 minutes and it stayed that way for at least 10 minutes++. Note that it shuts off immediately as soon as I push the power button down.
I have tried all the startup key combinations listed on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1533?viewlocale=en_US
But other than the Firewire logo showing up when I pressed T down at startup nothing else works, the actual Firewire target disk function didnt work when hooked up to another mac.
I have also tried taking off the battery/AC adapter and holding down the power button method to no avail.
The Macbook itself was bought in the US, but we are now in Europe so the startup CDs are not around, or at least not yet . I doubt it will do miracles anyway...
I know I'd probably have to take it in to an Apple Store to see whats up, but I thought I'd share it here first.
Let me know if anyone have similar experiences..
Cheers.
Try resetting the PRAM by restarting your computer while simultaneously holding down the Command-Option-P-R keys until the computer restarts a second time.
Hope this helps
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