So...I'm about to pull my hair out with my Macbook Pro (Merom 2.16 C2D)! I love it, but it's giving me problems. Here's my problem. I install boot camp. Partitioned my HD, got XP (SP2) to start up and it installed just fine. I go back to the mac side to transfer a few things over...and when I restart...I get a grey screen. Nothing else. The fans on my machine rev up after about 30 seconds to a minute of blank grey screen and it just sits there. The grey screen goes on forever (I've left it an hour to see if it can work itself out to no avail.) So...I did a force shut down, tried to boot from a CD, reset the PRAM, boot into safe mode, single user mode, verbose mode...nothing. Finally I gave up and shut down completely. I come back about an hour or two later....it boots right into Mac OS X no problem. So I backed up my hard drive, deleted the partition, tried boot camp again. Same thing happens! I get the boot chime, screen goes grey and nothing happens except the fan revs up and the Disc in the optical drive may rev up too (and then winds down). It doesn't matter if I install Vista or XP...still does it. I've tried holding down the option key...don't have any peripherals attached...and have no clue what to do! Disk utility reports the disc as being fine....so I'm stuck. I get rid of the partition, and it still has trouble booting, until I do a complete system wipe and reinstall mac os x. Then it works fine...until I try boot camp again! Any thoughts? I'd greatly appreciate anything.
Thanks so much!
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