Need help now please. macbook wont start up
I have a white macbook.
I was using it yesterday and the computer just shut off. I went to restart it and it does the chime, goes to the apple screen and just as the little circle under the apple spins, the laptop totally shuts down. it will not start.
I have tried to reset the pram and that didn't work. I just installed 10.6.4 yesterday....
Please help. I need the computer for work today.
Thank you.
First thing to try, is booting from the restore DVD and installing a fresh copy of 10.6. If you're lucky, the 10.6.4 update just hosed your OS install, and a simple reinstall is all that's needed.
Once you've booted to the 10.6 installer, it couldn't hurt to run Disk Utility from the Utilities menu to verify the SMART status of the drive, and even run a repair disk operation on it.
If the SMART status is failed, or Disk Utility doesn't see the drive, then you're looking at a hardware failure. You'll need to take it somewhere to be fixed if it's under warranty, otherwise if you have some precision screwdrivers like a PH000 and Torx T4, you can replace the drive yourself with pretty much any 2.5" SATA drive.
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