OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 Boots with black screen, white arrow cursor, no menu or icons therefore no control.

OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 Mac Book Pro. Won't power up to show menus or icons. Completely black screen with useless cursor and nothing to click on. cn't run any diagnostics.

What do you mean by "Installer CD does nothing?"
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple
logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
lease posted the link for using safe mode. Try clicking on it.

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Macbook only boots with black screen along with a load of jargon

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I installed a java and an intel secuirty update on my macbook pro after that i etsrated my mac and it was then taking ages to boot back up and then afte a while a black screen appeared with a load of jargon on which said the following
Launchd:com.apple.ni.blindd: Exited abnormally: Bad system call
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mDNSResponder-108.6 (Jul 19 2007 11:41.28)[153]: Starting
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Hi Spongeofthedead
did you get this problem solved, my macbook is doing exactly the same thing!!
all the disk repair etc does not seem to work..
i think i ve killed it any help would be very much appreciated..
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Dear Sir/ Madam,
My notebook boots with fan on, blinks on keyboard in the caps lock, but there is no display in the screen at all. There is no backlight as well.
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Mac Mini 2014 Boots With Black Background/White Apple

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Issue: When booting the Mac Mini up it goes through a very standard Yosemite boot but the background is black and the apple and progress bar are both white. The issue is entirely cosmetic in nature and doesn't seem to have any negative effects. What I normally expect and have seen in 30+ macs upgraded to Yosemite is the same loading but with a grey screen. It's worth noting that I have noticed this issue on 2 iMac 2010s that had been upgraded to Yosemite that belonged to some friends, but their issues were intermittent or fixed.
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Hi Autoexit173,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with system not booting in your Lenovo G560 laptop.
As you have mentioned that the system not booting, please try to remove the RAM and turn on the system and check if you can hear any beep sound. Also try to clean the RAM slots and check for the issue.
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I ran a few different utilities including a reset.... this all started about 3 weeks after the win 8.1 upgrade.
Rang tech support who nicely informed me that because we put 8.1 on it it voided the warrenty. (nice guys btw)
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The whole story is for me a bit confused so let me start from the beginning with some basic stuff.
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