White screen, new hard drive, blue screen. Help!

Tried to boot my MacBook Pro (2011) and just had blank white screen. Tried to boot from Mountain Lion bootable flash drive and just get a blue screen.
Installed new hard drive. Same thing. Suggestions?

After the dealer looked it over, he determined it has a bad logic board. However, searching online, I see the cause of all these 2011 MBP failures is due to the Raedon graphics card in them. Apple was replacing free for iMacs with the same part, but so far isn't doing the same for MacBook Pro's. I have emailed Apple, intend to call them, and posted on their support forum as well as other ones. FRUSTRATING.

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New Battery + New Hard Drive = Blue Screen of Death.

The series of events:
1. Powerbook acts slow, but nothing too frustrating. Until its starts to randomly quit when browsing the internet regardless of browser being used; however, I suffer through a few weeks with this issue.
2. Battery ceases to function one day after warranty ends, Apple Genius feels my pain but still charges for the new battery. I also inquire about the internet browsing issue and he runs some test and concludes that my airport card is failing. I choose to not replace the airport card at that time.
3. I purchase a time capsule and complete the initial backup; however, all further backups fail.
4. I purchase a macbook pro.
5. The day after purchasing the macbook pro, and before I had sufficient time to transfer all needed files from either the powerbook or the time capsule, the powerbook enters into the blue screen of death. The time capsule refuses to recognize the macbook pro as I desperately attempt to save at least a portion of my files.
6. I visit the apple store dragging a small suitcase behind me which holds the powerbook, the macbook pro, and the time capsule. My appointment began at 10:00am. At 8:00pm I left the Apple Store (the geniuses were glad to see me go, 5 of them were required to help me). Upon leaving, all files from the time capsule had been transferred to the macbook pro (at one point the genius said to me "there's a 50/50 chance this will work, if it doesn't you will lose everything" I almost cried) and the powerbook was given the definite diagnosis of a severely corrupt hard drive with the recommendation to replace it. (Sidenote: A different genius tested the airport on the powerbook and said its perfect and does not need to be replaced.)
7. Hard drive replaced in powerbook.
8. Powerbook used successfully to connect to macbook pro and watch a movie on the powerbook with the file based on the macbook pro.
9. Attempted to use powerbook again for the same task. Powerbook connected to macbook pro but wouldn't show any files. I disconnected the two and tried again, this time powerbook would not connect at all...just kept saying "connecting." Attempted to restart powerbook and was greeted with the blue screen of death.
The battery in the powerbook has barely 10 cycles. The new hard drive has nothing on it except what was loaded with leopard and firefox (there is absolutely no user-created content other than the firefox cache which only loaded the welcome page so I could confirm I was connected to the internet). I have not connected it to the time capsule.
I would really like it if the powerbook worked again. Is there a deeper problem with it since it barely worked after putting a new hard drive in? Is there any chance of hope for renewed life?

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System Specs
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Abit NF7 2.0
300 watt power supply, Generic Case
Geforce FX 5600AGP 8X 256MB
SB Audigy 2 Platinum
PCI SLot fan
Case fan
80gb master, 60gb slave Western Digital hard dri'ves
Lite on dvd-rom
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Windows XP Home Edition Sp2
Viewsonic VX-900-2 Monitor
I think that's all you need correct. The problem occurs when i disconnect the headphones from the jack, it could be after listening to music, or it could be when there idel, really doesn't matter it seems, unplug them to go back to regular speakers, and bam reboot
please help on this..
Drivers are latest for each item.
Software is up to date as it can be.
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MacBook Pro 2010: Flashing folder w/? on not responding to startup keys & I'm trying to install a new hard drive, can anyone help?

MacBook Pro 2010: Flashing folder w/? on not responding to startup keys & I'm trying to install a new hard drive, can anyone help?

Thanks. It started up com that disk but when I went to install it had an error message (didn't get to write out what it said). So I attempted to restore from time machine but it said there was no space, even though it's a new (replacement under warranty) HGST 1TB HD, so I did what I think was right and tried to partition the disk but it now says 'Partition faild...POSIX report...cannot allocate memory'. im not sure what to do, and I'm trying to remember how the previous hd was installed and formatted for use but that was over a year ago now. Should have erased the hd first or something?

Do i need a new hard drive? (screen with apple comes up & nothing else)

what has happened to my laptop?
Do i need a new hard drive, because it wont even load, the screen with the apple comes up and nothing else happens. Very frustrating!
any help is great
thanks j

Hey Jim,
Yes it says verified next to S.M.A.R.T - does that mean that i need a new hard drive
No that would mean your drive is good. However S.M.A.R.T is not infalliable.
my mac is 3 years old i bought it in jan 2006
thought a hard drive had a longer life than that though???
Well normally we think 4-5 years but laptop drives are more prone to failures - smaller and get bumped more.
It seems more like you've got a corrupted OS.
I clicked on disk utility and went on my hardrive and verified disk.
So at that point you were booted on the installer disk?
You should backup all files immediately and try an archive and install.
Richard

Satellite T130 - Stuck on loading screen - new hard drive needed

After a message on screen saying back up your hard drive it will fail soon and pressing F1 it then seems to get stuck on the loading screen. I am not too clever with computers. Do I need to simply buy a new hard drive to get the laptop working again or is it far more complicated than that. My guess is the latter.
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The first question is: have you created recovery media (USB stick)?
If not do it so long your HDD is working OK. original recovery image is saved on HDD but you must have it as USB back-up that you can use for installation if HDD must be replaced.
Do it as soon as possible. More about that you can read in users manuals.
What to do with HDD? In my opinion so long it works there is no reason for panic. Use your notebook as usual. If you will notice some performance problems or more and more error messages I think you should replace it.
HDD replacement should not be so problematic. HDD cover must be placed at the bottom side of your notebook. The smaller one is for RAM and bigger one must be for HDD. Check it out.
Before you do anything remove battery and disconnect your notebook from AC adapter.
If you don't have experience with this stuff please don't makes some risky steps. You can damage something.

IMac taking long time to boot after new hard drive installed. Help?

I recently had a new hard drive installed on my iMac (running Snow Leopard). After the intall all was well, but I couldn't get my screensaver to work. Erroneously thinking it was missing, I reinstalled it and ended up with two screen saver folders in the system files. Now when I turn on the Mac, I get a white screen for several seconds (close to a minute) before the system shows me the Apple logo and then boots. I'm concerned about this. Did my copying the screen saver cause the problem? Should I reinstall my system software? I was planning to upgrade to Mountain Lion anyway. Will that fix the problem? Any suggestions appreciated.

Restart in Safe Boot Mode (hold the left Shift key as soon as you restart your computer and hold it until the Apple logo appears). Once it gets to the desktop you can restart normally. Safe Mode serves a number of purposes and one of them is to delete/trim temporary files that might be causing boot problems. There's no guarantee this will improve your startup time but it will do no harm and I have seen computers restart more quickly after a Safe Boot.

T61 - New hard drive. Need help with drivers

I just installed a new hard drive (upgraded from 80 gb to 320 gb) and I want to redownload all of the thinkpad functions. As of now, when i use the volume button, it does not appear on the screen so I cannot tell how high it is. Also, when i try to scroll using the touchpad (the right side) it does not work. Can somebody list for me all of the drivers and things that I would need to download to get me back on track? Thanks

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67853
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New hard drive issues - need help please!

So I just installed a new hard drive on my Ideapad S10 and having the following issues. I get a PXE-E61 : Media test failure check cable & PXE-M0F : Exiting Broadcom PXE rom message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drive to check the connection and still get the error, it's a brand new drive. Also I noticed in the BIOS that the hard drive is showing up under ssd disk and SATA hdd shows - none. If I restore the BIOS settings to original then the drive will show up under ssd but the SATA controller mode will show the AHCI setting instead of the Compatible setting it should use.
I'm really stuck here and don't know what else to check. My orginal drive is dead so I'm trying to get this working so I can install windows. If anyone could help out it would be greatly appreciated - Thanks!

Full Disclosure: I don't know your machine.
That PXE error probably doesn't indicate a problem - or not the problem, anyway. Your machine boots, doesn't see an operating system on the hard drive (or doesn't see a hard drive at all) and tries to boot over the network and fails. That's what the PXE error is about.
As to the SATA problems, what happens when you boot your Windows install media? Does that see a hard drive?
Z.
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Problems with copying iPhoto library onto new hard drive from external HELP

I had to get a new hard drive installed onto my MacBook Pro, but was able to copy my iPhoto library onto my external hard drive via another computer before the old hard drive failed. Now, I am trying to copy that library back onto my MacBook.
After I copied the library onto the MacBook, when iPhoto was opened, it showed no photos but I could see album titles. Then when I opened iPhoto while holding down the option key, it was all clumped into one event and not nearly all of the photos were there. Also, I have right-clicked on the library to see package contents and everything seems to be there, but I don't know how to make it all show up in the library.
I've downloaded iPhoto Library Manager because I thought that might help (but haven't used it yet -- don't know how) and I just need some help to recover my iPhoto library... and is there a way to restore all the separate events imported and time/date stamps, in order to get all the photos in chronological order?

Should I just go through the iPhoto Library package contents and drag every folder into iPhoto?
No. That will get you massive duplication.
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1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
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Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
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Is the new hard drive installed?
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T43. New hard drive. Please Help

Hi
I have a T43 2668 F3G, I am having so many problems with it I have decided it needs a new hard drive. The hard drive that was original from new is a Toshiba 80gb HDD2D09, to replace it I have a Samsung HM211HC, it says 120gb/5400rpm/8m/pata.
Firstly I need to know if this new hard drive will fit my T43?
Secondly I have re-installed my laptop before but how do I re-instal with a new hard drive?

Welcome to the forum!
That drive will fit in your T43, but will give the infamous "2010 error" on boot. I suggest getting a Fujitsu 120GB that will boot without triggering this warning.
Hope this helps.
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White Screen- New Hard Drive Same issue

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Getting a new hard drive! Need HELP!

Okay, so I know how to switch out a hard drive in a Macbook Pro...no big deal. My question is if there is an easy way to get al your personal info, files, iphoto library, music...off the laptop onto one external hard drive. I figure I can hunt around and move it all, but had no idea whether or not the OS had a way of boxing up all your stuff within a user account and porting all over ot an external hard drive as one file. That way, when you got OS X re-installed, you could just port that user back onto it. Does that exist?
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You could put the new drive in an external firewire enclosure (they're cheap) & clone your current hard drive files to it. Then boot to the new drive to ensure it's working OK. Then install the new drive in your laptop. You can use your old drive as a backup, installed in the firewire enclosure.
To clone, you can use the freeware CarbonCopy Cloner @ http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html , or the freeware SuperDuper @ http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html , or the freeware IBackup @ http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html , or the Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X.
Here's some helpful laptop sites.
Fix It Guides for Mac Laptops & Mini
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/
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How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble an Apple/Macintosh Laptop or Notebook
http://repair4laptop.org/disassembly_apple.html
PowerBookTech
http://www.powerbooktech.com/
(Note - PowerBookTech has some good info, however, some Mac users in other forums were having difficulty getting delivery on parts from them.)
How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble an Apple/Macintosh Laptop or Notebook
http://repair4laptop.org/disassembly_apple.html
Laptop Repair Guides
http://www.applerepairmanuals.com/#portables
MicroDock
http://www.microdocusa.com/
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