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dropped mac notebook
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my daughter dropped my notebook and it won't start up.It continues to search with the apple logo. What should I do??????
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My gut reaction would be hard drive failure. Can you try booting from the disks that came with the machine?
Put the disk in, restart the computer while holding down the option key. You should see icons representing bootable disks. Choose the install CD and hit return.
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It may not be a complete hard drive failure, but the data is probably in trouble. Hope you had a backup, jdawson.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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could be just the RAM got dislodged enough it wont even post code it. re-install (reseat) the RAM.
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MacBook Pro 15" i7 ~ Snow Leopard ~ iPhone 4 - 16Gb
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It's getting through POST because he said that it's hanging at the startup Apple logo. It's hard drive issue. The next thing to try is a disk utility. Has he tried single user mode fsck?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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Actually, the RAM test happens after the Apple logo shows up, but before the little wheel starts spinning (the progress indicator). If it freezes with the logo showing but without the wheel, it's likely RAM.
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The low-end Mac Pro is the most overpriced Mac since the IIvx
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