Wont load past gray apple screen

my macbook pro wont load past the grap apple screen i cant figure out whats going on with it any suggestions past the "recommended" ones? there is a crack in my screen but i dont think that would do anything to the computer running, my first thought is the HDD but i dont want to replace it if i dont need to.

sorry actually lion OS

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My Macbook wont load past the apple screen.

ok so I have a macbook from late 2007 and it's not loading past the apple screen. Yesterday it froze so decided to turn it off and it hasnt started up since. Ive tried safe mode, resetting the NVRAM/PRAM, and then i decided to restart it and press command v and a screen popped up saying.
npvhash=4895
PRE enabled
64 bit mode enable
darwin kernel version 18.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/release_1386
vm_page_bootstrap: 246299 free pages and 15845 wired pages
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
mig_table_max_displ = 73
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id=0 LopicId=0 Enabled
AppleACPICPU: Processor Id=1 LopicId=1 Enabled
calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetynet
Security policy losded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Security policy Loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
     The Regents of the University for Californai. All Rights reserved.
MAC Framework successfully initialized
isong 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster 10 buffer headers
IOAPIC: Verdion 0x20 Vectors 64:87
ACPI: System state [so s3 s4 s5] (s3)
PFM64 0xf10000000, 0xf10000000
[ PCI configuration begin ]
PCI configurstion changed (bridge=1 device=1 cardbus=0)
[ PCI configuration end, birdges 4 devices 17 ]
AppleIntellCPUPowerManagement: (built 16:44:45 Jun 7 2011)ninitialization complete
mbinit: done (64 MB memory set
for mbuf pool)
FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5811 built-in now active, GUID 001cb4fffe8bb384; max speed s400.
rooting via boot -uuid from /choosen: 49342205-A733-3921-9F2C-4D88EAA7EB64
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key><string ID="1">[0Resources</key><string ID= "1">I0ResourceMatch</key><string ID= "2">boot -uuid-media-</string></dict>
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib Kmod start
com.apple.AppleFSCompressionType L\load succeeded
appleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient : ready
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleCPIPlatformExpert/PC1000/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F ,2/AppleAHCI/PRT2@2/I0AHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice /
IOBlockStorageDriver/ST980811AS Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Untitled 102
BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
[Bluetooth: :CSRHIDTransition] switchToHCIMode (legacy)
[Bluetooth: :CSRHIDTransition] transition complete.
CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController: :setupHardware super returned 0
AppleYukon2: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053 Singleport Copper SA
AppleYukon2:RxingSize <= 1024, TxRingSize 256, RX_MAX_LE 1024, TX_MAX_LE 768, ST_MAX_LE 3328
disk0s2: 1/0 error.
     0 [level 3] [ReadUid 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType 10] [ErrNo 5] [10Type Read] [PbnukNum 50624960] [LblkNum 8] [FSLogMsgID 142858201] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
     0 [level 3] [ReadUid 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode root_device] [MountPt /] [Path /usr/lib/dyld/ . .namedfork/rsrc] [FSLogMsgID 1462858201] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
/SourceCache/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-24.4/Common/commonUtilsKern.c :344: VNOP_GETXATTR com.apple.ResourceFork for /usr/lib/dyld: 5: error
/SourceCache/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-24.4/Compressors/Type4/Compre ssorType4Imp.c.304: fh_getxattr /usr/lib/dyld: 5: error
/SoundCache/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-24.4/Common/commonUtils.c:223: supplyChunk: error
decmpfs.c:1149:decmpfs_pagein_compressed: err -1
CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(ox7fff5fc22000): p=1[launchd] clearing CS_VALID
Sleep prevented by SB 1, SS 0, RS 1

reading this, your hdd has unfortunately died. have you backed your system up? if you have it is not as bad as it seems.
you will have to buy a new drive and simply restore to that drive from the backup.

My phone froze so i switched it off using the power button and home. now everytime it switches on, it wont go past the apple screen??

my phone froze so i switched it off using the power button and home. now everytime it switches on, it wont go past the apple screen??

Hello 3m4nz4,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help with your device. It contains a number of troubleshooting steps and helpful advice for the issue you are experiencing:
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on - Apple Support
Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch may occasionally stop responding to buttons, switches, or touchscreen input and may exhibit one or more of these symptoms:
Does not return to the Home screen after you press the Home button
Does not wake from sleep after you press the Sleep/Wake button
Does not turn on (or power on) when you press any button
Does not start up past Apple logo
Appears frozen or unresponsive
Is unable to "Slide to Unlock" or "Slide to Power Off"
To troubleshoot these symptoms:
If a single application is not responding or stops responding when it opens, you can force it to close.
If the device is unresponsive or if certain controls aren't working as expected, restart your device.
If the device remains unresponsive or does not turn on (or power on), reset your device.
If there is no video or if the screen remains black, verify that the device has enough charge to turn on:
If you are using an iPad, ensure that it's connected to the USB Power Adapter supplied with the device.
Let it charge for at least twenty minutes, then see if it starts normally.
If there is no image on the screen, press the Sleep/Wake button to attempt to wake the device.
If the screen displays a red battery icon, continue charging the device until the battery is fully charged. Learn more about charging iPhone and iPod touch, or iPad.
If the above steps do not resolve the issue, or the if the screen remains black or shows a persistent Apple logo, try restoring with iTunes:
Connect the device to your computer and open iTunes.
If the device appears in iTunes, select and click Restore on the Summary pane. Learn more about restoring iOS software.
If the device doesn't appear in iTunes, try to force the device into recovery mode, and then restore it.
If the above steps do not resolve the issue, contact Apple.
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

Macbook Pro won't go past gray apple screen

When I turn my macbook on, it makes the chime and the gray apple screen appears. Then a progress bar appears and after it is finished loading, there is just a spinning loading circle thingy under the apple. My laptop never goes past this screen, it was like this all day. What do I do. This my work computer and I have not used it in a few weeks and before that it was FINE....PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Thank you so much for your reply. I am in the processing of doing the safe boot (I chose to see it) and there are a lot of codes on the screen and it was checking all different things. All of that checking seems to have stopped and all the words and codes on the screen are staying the same. How do I know if the process is done and how long does it take? I am not sure what to do right now.

POWERBOOK G4 14 1.33 WONT GET PAST THE APPLE SCREEN

I have a powerbook G4 14 inch 1.33 mhz processor with 256 mb of ram. The screen will not get past the apple screen. I have tried 3 seperate hard drives none of them would boot past the apple screen. The disk drive is broken, I will be replacing it shortly to put a OS X CD or disk warrior cd in it. Does anybody know what would cause this? I reset PRAM, PMU and tried booting in safe mode. It gets to the apple and then the little circle spins and spins and it doesnt load..

Heres some history of the computer. I orginally put a 12 gb hard drive cuz it came with no hard drive in it and it was working great, but then became slower and slower until it got stuck on the apple screen. i tried 2 other hard drives and they didnt work. i then replaced it with a brand new 60 gb hard drive. i also bought a new optical drive and put that in because the optical drive never worked. i have tried two different ram sticks. i have tried pressing shift,c,option none of that works. option makes it freeze on the boot screen. open firmware works...command S did work until recently...command v does not work...reset pram and nvram. reset PMU. I AM AT A LOSS. is there something i forgot to leave connected during the process that could be causing this? I get USB BOOT ERROR 0 1 1 in open firmware. I DOUBT its the logic board, because it makes the chime and I can get into open firmware and the start up screen.

G4 TiBook won't go past gray apple screen with spinning black wheel

Hi,
I am trying to get this machine to boot, and things are very strange.
The latest development, which I'll start with, is that I just finished an install of Tiger on the machine. It gets to the gray Apple screen with the spinning cursor. However, the startup/welcome music to Tiger played in the background, and it started walking me through keyboard commands via Voiceover.
1) It will boot off of a Tiger or Panther startup DVD/CD, and will install without incident.
2) It will actually boot from the hard drive with a fresh install of OS 9.2.
3) Another machine can boot the hard drive while the TiBook is in firewire target mode.
4) I have tried a brand new hard drive, and have tried to boot other machines while they were in Firewire target mode - same behavior.
5) I have tried resetting PMU, PRAM and NVRAM multiple times. Every time I boot into OF, the very top message is "NVRAM Corrupted" and it performs an init-vram command, to which it says "OK".
6) Before all of this happened, the machine underwent an upgrade from Panther to Tiger. Everything was working fine (albeit slowly, since the hard drive was almost totally full) until PRAM and NVRAM were reset. After that, the only thing the machine has been able to do (with OS X on the drive) is boot to this gray splash screen.
7) The hard drive has been wiped completely with a fresh install of Tiger and even Panther several times. Same behavior.
8) Have tried taking out the memory, changing the memory - all resulting in the same startup screen.
I've tried booting up using Verbose mode as well as Safe mode. Doesn't make any difference. The only thing I have not tried is taking out the CMOS battery (which I don't yet know where it's at on this machine).
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks
Erik

Hi Erik,
Every time I boot into OF, the very top message is "NVRAM Corrupted"
Just one thought fwiw: I'm wondering if you have a bad cache. I can't remember if you can access your Apple Menu>About This Mac>More Info while booted to your install disc, but if so, see if your L2 and L3 cache are listed. If that doesn't work, again I don't remember if this will work, but while booted to FWTDM open Applications>Utilities>System Profiler on your Ti HD and see if caches are listed. Which Ti (CPU) do you have btw?
If it does turn out to be a cache issue, not good news, as cache is incorporated into the logic board, and the "repair" is actually replacing the LB.

My macbook air wont go past the apple screen with the loading circle.

My Macbook air (Early 2008 edition) Boots up fine, but it stays on the apple screen with the loading circle for a few minutes and then shuts down. I did the Command+v and it always stops at the same spot with:
disk0s2: I/0 error.
(see picture)
I have already tried pretty much all the commands while booting up possible, and to no avail.
Please help.

Sorry for delay been super busy at work - have you tried to boot to your operating sytem disc - by inserting the disc - then power down the unit - then power it up again while holding down the C key until you see the gear start spinning. Once it comes up - go to utilities at the top of the screen - then disc utility - then selcet your hard drive in the left hand pane and then on the right hand pane select first aid and click verify disk in the lower right hand corner - your hard drive may be failing and this test will let you know if that is the case. If so you need to backup your hard drive - replace it and put your data back on the newly placed drive. - please let me know how the verify disc goes

My Macbook Pro will not load past grey Apple screen...

Last night my Macbook Pro froze so I closed it and went to bed. Today when I opened it, it was still frozen, so I held down the power button and rebooted it. It got as far as the grey Apple screen with the spinning wheel and will not load any further than that. I've rebooted a couple times since and it continues to do the same thing, stays on the grey screen forever.
I searched this problem on the Apple Support Communitites and none of suggestions (holding Shift after the startup tone, holding Command+R) have worked so far. Is there any way to fix this problem without losing my data or having to pay to talk to Apple Support? PLEASE HELP! :(

Zzoozu wrote:
None of that made sense to me or helped me. Anyone else? Maybe someone who has answers dor someone not a computer genius?
Then we can't help you as we need you to be able to help yourself and the instructions are complicated and long to paste here over and over again for the same proceedure.
Hire the services of a local Mac computer repair before you delete your data by accident.
You can jump down and do #8, that might clear the issue right away, but some programs are not going to work and require updating or reinstalling again.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac

G5 wont boot past white Apple screen.

To anybody that may have some advice. I hadn't used my power mac in about 4 days then when I turned it on last night it wouldn't boot past the white apple screen. I still have the chime my fans and processor still spin up. I tried resetting the SMU, and I also took out 3rd party ram I had installed and tried booting up to see if that was the problem. I'm prepared to take it to the apple store, I just thought somebody might have some advice before I take it there. So again when I boot up it reaches the white screen with the grey apple and then it just gives me the little grey spinning dial and just spins and spins. Thanks in advance to anybody with any advice.
Dual 2.0 GHz Power mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Well first I booted holding option and it just booted into target disk mode or something like it, a screen that would allow me boot from a different drive if I had one that was formatted with Tiger. So then I rebooted holding >shift and OPtion. And it kernel paniced, it said it didnt have the driver for this version Tiger 7,2 or something along those lines and then it gave me apples screen of death asking me to restart.

Indigo/Panther won't boot past gray apple screen.

Right before this started, the finder was stalled with a pinwheel in an almost-loaded configuration--menu bar not fully there, nothing on desktop yet. I finally shut it down with the power button, and since then, every attempt I make to boot up stops at the gray apple, except:
1. I can boot to the Restore CD if I wait through a lonnnnng gray apple phase--probably 5 minutes--after which all the CD's options load and seem normal. I tried restoring, which went without a hitch until restart, at which is simply stalled as before.
2. I can boot to Open Firmware.
I reset the PMU, and I tried resetting the PRAM, and might have done so I guess, but the chimes sounded abnormally close together, sort of like a broken record, and then of course when I let up on the keys, I got the gray apple.
Any clues? I'd certainly appreciate any thoughts you might have. Thank you.

The threadstarter has problems with his Indigo iBook.(366MHZ, firewire)
The AHT is available for Clamshells with firewire.
The next thing would be using Panthers Disk utility prior to installation.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=169576&seqNum=10
Try to verify and repair your volume. With disk utility you can erase the HD and overwrite it with 0, (erase option) if there are too many bad sectors this process will fail.
You can pull out the RAM stick underneath the keyboard and swap it with the one from your tangerine and see if it works better.
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I have a first gen. ipod i turned it on and then it shut itself back off. Now wont go past the apple screen what happend?

My first gen.ipod shut off by itself and won't get past the first apple screen.When I turn it on the apple screen comes up then it shuts back off.

You should do a DFU.
Steps to DFU
Turn your device off. Press and hold the Power button until the Power slider appears. Slide it to the right to turn the device off. Wait for your device to completely power down before continuing.
Plug into your Computer.
Press the Power button. Hold the Power button for 3 seconds.
Press the Home button. After the first 3 seconds, press and hold the Home button while continuing to hold the Power button. Do this for 10 seconds.
Release the Power button. After exactly 10 seconds of holding both buttons, release the Power button but continue holding the Home button. After a few seconds, a message will appear in iTunes letting you know that the device has been detected. The device’s screen will remain blank if done successfully.
Then you should restore it and put all your info back.
*Make sure you back it up before you do this*

MacBook Pro: Tiger wont boot past grey apple screen w/ spinning gear, HELP!

Hey everybody,
I have a 1.83 Ghz MBP with 512 mb of RAM (lame I know). The other day someone was using my computer to burn a CD on iTunes when all of my programs began failing. On instinct I rebooted my computer to solve the problem. Alas, now I cant boot past the grey apple screen, and the gear is spinning away. Saddest part of the story is that I had time set aside to back up my computer the day after this happened . Anyway what is the best thing to do from here? I haven't made any moves to fix it yet really, so what is the best thing that I can do to try and get my files back?
Thank you,
Sam A.

Hi, I posted to you in yoour other thread.
I very much doubt Disk Utility or fsck will fix an +Invalid Node Structure+ error. That's a pretty serious error and DU is just not robust enough of a utility to repair it.
If Disk Utility can't fix it, you'll need a more robust utility for the repair. I would recommend DiskWarrior. It is the best at directory repairs. It rebuilds then actually replaces your old directory. I feel every Mac owner should have a copy. Make sure you get the disk so you can boot up on it to run repairs. You can also install it on another drive and run it from there to repair this one. DW works faster that way.
I use DW once a month to try and catch errors in my system from getting too far out of hand.
If you have a good backup, hopefully a clone of your system before you had issues, an Erase and Install will also rid you of this issue. But, beware! You will lose everything on the drive with this procedure. Let us know if you need help with that!
Cheers! DALE
p.s. If the +Invalid Node Structure+ is real bad, there's a risk even the mighty DiskWarrior will not be able to help. Normally it will come thru; it's only in the severe cases it won't be able to do it. If you don't have a backup, and need the data bad, it's worth the try!

G5 wont boot past grey Apple screen and spinning cirlce

I cam in to work this morning and found my Mac on with fans blazing the the display just showing the grey Apple screen and spinning circle. I have it set to turn on before I arrive at work and it has been doing so flawlessly for all the years I've had it. When I shut down last night everything was working fine. Now this.
I've scanned some help forums but can't quite determine what the cause might be. Old battery on the memory card, a bad memory chip, ...I'm not sure.
As I said, things had been working flawlessly for years.
I've tried unplugging and re-plugging in the power cord (nope), resetting the PRAM (didn't work), Pressing the PRAM button on the memory board (again no), resetting things from Open Firmware (Using these commands: reset-nvram, set-defaults, reset-all -- no luck)and now have Disk Utility repairing permissions from the install DVD. That doesn't seem to be doing anything, it has been "Determining correct file permissions" from my startup disk for about 20 mintues now...usually it goes a lot quicker.
Any thoughts? This is my primary work machine and if I can't get it running I'm dead in the water. I'm accessing these forums from a PC in the office and would rather not have to, hahah.
Thanks.
(also, when running permission repair, do you repair the volume or the primary disk? I'm repairing the named sub-volume of the hard drive.)

(also, when running permission repair, do you repair the volume or the primary disk? I'm repairing the named sub-volume of the hard drive.)
I repair the hard drive that contains the Startup volume, unless multiple partitions are present.
In that case, only the startup volume.
Rather than "repair permissions", "Repair Disk" is what you should run on the startup volume.
Troubleshooting:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
Reseating the RAM and graphics card may also be helpful.
If you get the machine started again, install Applejack for future help:
http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

My imac wont boot past the apple screen

I installed a Java update and now my system wont start

Was this from Software Update, or some direct download?
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at the top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

My iphone 3gs wont load past the apple logo

my iphone wont charge or turn on. occasionally it will charge for 20seconds then it will get stuck on the apple logo then the screen will light up slightly as if it is going to turn on but then it goes off and i cant do anything with it again for days on end, can anybody help or is it time for a new phone?

is the phone jailbroken? if it is, that could be the issue. if not, you should probably do a back up and then restore your iphone. if that doesn't fix it... well the phone is almost 5 years old, be happy you had it that long.

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