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My Macbook Pro won't boot into OSX
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After working fine all day yesterday, I got my mac to school this morning and it was taking forever to boot. Thinking that this was interesting I tried restarting it several times... it would always hang at that gray screen, then after a while it made it to the blue screen and would hang there. It would boot into XP just fine on one attempt. Then, I tried getting into OSX again and now I can't boot without weird graphical anomalies (lines up and down my screen). So I can't even try to boot into Windows... this is totally annoying and I'm at a loss. I've tried zapping the PRAM out of desperation... but I can't figure out what could be wrong. Any ideas? (I tried entering single user mode and it said my disk was fine) 
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Ok, update;
when I power it on it goes from....
weird "black" graphical anomaly >>> *no apple/gear* >>> loading OSX >>> blank blue screen that has a mouse pointer... yay.
Oh and I can't seem to choose to boot XP anymore.
(Last edited by Itachi; Mar 27, 2007 at 10:30 PM.
(Reason:addition))
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also....
watching it boot up I saw "login" flash in MSDOS style before it settled on that last screen
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Does it boot from the system disk?
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Sounds like your logic board is going to a better place. I've had the same lines up and down my screen when I used an PowerPC iMac. Turns out the logic board was going. that's all I can come up with at this time.
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yeah, the graphical corruption sounds like a hardware issue.
if you can, boot off the apple hardware test, and run it on extended mode.
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I second what Visualize posted, the graphic lines are not a good sign. Also try running the Apple Hardware Test but I doubt if that will uncover a logic board problem but it may high light any issues that could be causing the problem.
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Michael
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^^Too bad that the OP has a MacBook Pro and not a Mac Pro.
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Forgive me if this is a dumb post, bit of a newbie, but I had what seemed like a very similar problem.
I have a triple boot MacBook and after using cygwin and VC++ while booted in Windows, my machine when into a spin. It was accessing the Mac drive at the time, not sure what went wrong, but something nasty happened.
Anyway, I had the same issue, it would try and boot, then just hang.
I powered off and then rebooted in single user mode (Apple+s on startup).
Then I ran fsck -f.
It went away for a bit, fixed a few things, then all was fine. On reboot I clobbered the folder it had been accessing from windows and now all *seems* fine.
Might be worth a try?
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Originally Posted by Visualize 
^^Too bad that the OP has a MacBook Pro and not a Mac Pro.
I know, I know, I'm just an idiot trying to get my new $8000 investment working correctly. Sorry for the mis-post.
Tim
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