My MacBook won't start up. After turn it on I get a grey screen with an apple in center and a circle below with lines around it and a blank bar below that. How can I get it to get beyond this screen?

MacBook won't start. After I power up, I get a light grey screen with an apple in the middle, a circle with lines moving around it and a blank grey bar below that. It won,t get beyond this. Please offer suggestions.

I have the exact same problem and waited it out and got to my homescreen. Whateve the problem is fried my bluetooth and my trackpad. I tried starting it again and couldn't even get to homescreen, it stayed on the bluescreen with the wheel of death. So, I took it to genius bar today. I was informed that my logic board is fried and it needs to be replaced. $300 repair that I'm looking at...

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Hi, when I upload music into itunes from a cd it sometimes appears in itunes as two different albums and split up the music in 2 or even three albums....how can i merge these albums...this is particularly true when one album may have different composers?

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things.
For compilations that aren't, select all tracks, Get Info, and on the option tab set Part of a Compilation to No. If it already says No tick the box alongside, then click OK.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
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MacBook won't start up after installing iTunes 8 & updates ...??

My MacBook is a little more than a year old (read, no longer under warranty ...) and it's currently in a coma.
Nothing was out of the ordinary prior to the MacBook going weird - I downloaded a bunch of photos from my camera, ejected a USB drive and immediately after that I tried to launch iPhoto - it froze and I tried to force quit (several times) without success. I then pressed the power button, and that was the last time I saw my desktop.
Whenever I press the power button to try to turn it on, the Apple logo comes on (but no spinning wheelie) and then a grey screen comes up saying my MacBook needs to be restarted - either press the power button for a few seconds or try the reset button (which is where???).
Anyway, for the next two and a half hours, I tried everything I could find on the forums to revive my MacBook. I did the PRAM thing, pulled out the battery, did the Cmd+S/V gig (that went no where either, just got stuck on a black screen with lots of words after a while), got my old OS X install disc out (couldn't find the Leopard at 2:30AM ...) ran through the whole repair thing ... Point is, I'm still looking at the screen that's telling me to restart my computer.
I've gone through the forums here and it seems like some people with year-old'ish MacBooks who have installed iTunes 8 as well as the latest software updates seem to have the same problem. Now I know it's my fault I didn't backup my data so I can't just wipe the HDD and hope for the best. If I knew installing iTunes 8 would cause this, I wouldn't have bought the new iPod Touch 32GB, which requires the iTunes 8 to work. And I usually install all the updates Apple tells me to install ... maybe this is what you get for being gullible.
Anyway, I think I'm going to have to take it to a service centre, who has quoted me at least $75 to $250 to have the thing "diagnosed", let alone fixed.
How do I know if I broke the MacBook or iTunes & the software updates did? Or are MacBooks really pre-programmed to die after the one year warranty expires ......?? Eitherway, I'm really put off by Apple right now.

Another victim!
Try booting up from the install disc (insert and hold down C), then run disk utility and and check your drive for errors, and then if possible try fixing them.
This didn't work for me, however after deleting my hard drive and repeating the above procedure no errors were found, and after a reinstallation of OSX my computer is working although extremely slow.
As for recovering your data I'm not sure. So far I haven't heard of it being done, although I have heard of new hard drives needing to be purchased.
Good luck. And spread the word!

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I have a Macbook White from the year of 2009. It is currently running with 2GB of Memory. I bought 4GB Memory online for my MacBook, so I could get it to run twice as fast.
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Thanks for reading.

You probably bought the wrong RAM that has different pin assignments, so it won't fit in the slot. Return it.
I bought 4GB Memory online for my MacBook, so I could get it to run twice as fast.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6162
Ciao.

Macbook won't start up after updates.

I installed some software updates yesterday inlcuding Itunes 10.5, Safari and some other things. But once it tried to restart all I got was a black screen and a constant whirring noise. I left it for a while but nothing happened, occasionally it flickered for a split second.
I held down the power button and restarted it and it worked but would shut down everytime I lowered the lid. Then I put it to sleep manually and when I tried to use it, the black screen and whirring noises came back and it's still like that. I'm not sure what to do, help?
Fairly new Macbook Pro 13'' purchased in about April this year

Another victim!
Try booting up from the install disc (insert and hold down C), then run disk utility and and check your drive for errors, and then if possible try fixing them.
This didn't work for me, however after deleting my hard drive and repeating the above procedure no errors were found, and after a reinstallation of OSX my computer is working although extremely slow.
As for recovering your data I'm not sure. So far I haven't heard of it being done, although I have heard of new hard drives needing to be purchased.
Good luck. And spread the word!

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Last night I updated my MacBook and now it will not turn on past the White screan with the grey apple logo.
I reset the PRAM an the PMU, held down the D key an tested for hardware problems and nothing has helped.
Any help would be very greatly appreciated as I am working on an important project on my laptop.
Thanks in advance, Hannah.

put you the mac os x cd in the drive and when you start up the system press the C letter and hold it until it is loaded with the cd then find the open disk utility option from the utillities section on the top bar then try to verify the permissions and repair them this should work and bring up the os
you can use this link for more information and step by step guide : http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810

MacBook won't start up after overheat shutdown.

My MacBook shutdown due to overheating. now I can't restart it.

What happens when you try to restart it? Have you tried a safe start by holding the shift key down when booting?
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too but doesn't work. I want to display a customize message when the user left the
status field in blank or null.
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I agree with other comments that you should do this with specifying that the column is NOT NULL to prevent it from being NULL and a constraint if you don't want it to be blank (spaces or the empty string - note that the empty string is not the same thing
as NULL).
But for completeness, the reason your trigger does not ever allow you to enter a row is the code
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ON [dbo].[Status]
FOR INSERT
AS
BEGIN
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM inserted WHERE Status IS NULL)
BEGIN
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Rollback;
END
END
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Why can't I find "organize bookmarks" in the bookmarks drop-down menu? I read that Show all bookmarks has replaced it, but there is no way that I can see to manage/organize them from this screen.

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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks
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My Macbook A1181 won't startup. After turn on I get white screen with a folder sign with question mark in the center.

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It sounds like your hard drive is bad. If you can see it in Disk Utility you may still be able to get your files off of it. If you have one of the MacBooks with the removable battery it's very easy to put in a new hard drive.
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Here's a cheap SATA external hard drive case on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-5-SATA-HDD-HARD-DRIVE-EXTERNAL-ENCLOSURE-CASE-BOX-/120 636286623?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item1c167ba69f
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I just suffer as all other that after try ti install the 10.4.11 update my macbook won't start, I have a external HD with a image of my macbook but went I press and hold the option key I only see the bootcamp parttion and my internal HD, I don't see the external HD.
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After installing the latest update my macbook won't start up. Instead of the login screen I get a flashing map icon with a question mark. My uncle says that means it can't find the startup disk and I had to startup from the install disk holding C but it didn't work. I'm quite desperate because I need my macbook for school (writing & producing music). I type this on a friend's computer... How can I fix this? Or do I really have to go to a mac store and part from my macbook for an unknown time...? :'(
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Hi
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My MacBook won't start up. After turn it on I get a grey screen with an apple in center and a circle below with lines around it and a blank bar below that. How can I get it to get beyond this screen?

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