Dead Apple MacBook

[Rampant Stallion]

So, there I was, perusing Memory Map via Parallels on my MacBook, when it froze. I tried the usual 3 finger salute (cont, Alt, Del) and the same for the Apple system. Nothing happened. Waited a bit, tried again, so turned it off by holding the power button. Now if I try to turn it on, I get a grey screen, with a flashing picture of a folder with a question mark in it.
I've consulted a few books and tried holding down various buttons while turning it back on and I can't get it to boot correctly.
Any (sensible) ideas?

 

[richie]

Put in the Mac DVD and see what happens

 

[Rampant Stallion]

Done that
No joy. Tried it holding down C and also D and again with Comm-S. It gets to the installer page and goes no further. I managed to get the Hardware Check to work and it gives the all-clear, so it must be a software problem.

 

[shready]

So, there I was, perusing Memory Map via Parallels on my MacBook, when it froze. I tried the usual 3 finger salute (cont, Alt, Del) and the same for the Apple system. Nothing happened. Waited a bit, tried again, so turned it off by holding the power button. Now if I try to turn it on, I get a grey screen, with a flashing picture of a folder with a question mark in it.
I've consulted a few books and tried holding down various buttons while turning it back on and I can't get it to boot correctly.
Any (sensible) ideas?

Common problem today

Currently re-installing OSX on mine, looks like the HDD is shaged though

Did the hardware check and it said all was rosy but we'll see.

 

[Fanum]

shock horror......'infallable' macs breaking down??

ps good luck R.S

 

[Rampant Stallion]

'kin 'ell Bill, I knew it wouldn't take long for Mr Mac-Hater to appear . That's why I said "Any (sensible) ideas"?

Luckily;
I. it's still under warranty
II. I backed-up all my music to a separate hard drive only a couple of days ago.

Unluckily;
I. that's all I backed-up. I was going to do everything else this weekend!

Maybe Sugarcube will be along soon. He knows all about these things!

 

[shready]

Common problem today

Currently re-installing OSX on mine, looks like the HDD is shaged though

Did the hardware check and it said all was rosy but we'll see.

Well the software install failed and the machine is buggered.

Need to get the disk replaced now, just hope it's not a system board problem

 

[Sugarcube]

Damn. Only just read this. Are you sorted now?

 

[Rampant Stallion]

Nope - still knackered!
I phoned the very nice man at Apple, and we tried a few tests to try to find the problem. It would appear to be either the HD or motherboard. Luckily it's under warranty. But that still means I have to take it to Manchester or Birmingham and collect it when it's fixed. How crap is that? When a similar thing happened to a previous laptop a few years ago, the bloke came to fix it next day, and had the parts with him, so it had a down-time of less than 24 hours.
Away on holibobs tomorrow , so will do summat about it when I return.
And just for all the Mac-haters, it was running Win-doze when it expired!