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Question mark of death!!!
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Yep you got it... turned on my macbook on saturday to be greeted with a folder icon with a question mark in the middle of it!!!!
Its currently in macHospital!
Anyone else had a problem of a aimilar nature???
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MacBook Pro 2.2 i7 | 4GB | 128GB SSD ~ 500GB+2TB Externals ~ iPhone 4 32GB
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The flashing question mark means that your Mac can't find a System folder to boot up. It can mean many things from a simple System file that has gotten hosed to a totally dead hard drive. When you say that it is in MacHospital, what do you mean?!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Sorry i was refering to it being repaired at my local store!!!
Edit:
Fixed..... New HD....Super drive and Logicboard would have cost 768GBP...
Thanks applecare
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Last edited by richwig83; May 26, 2007 at 01:14 PM.
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MacBook Pro 2.2 i7 | 4GB | 128GB SSD ~ 500GB+2TB Externals ~ iPhone 4 32GB
Canon 5DII | EF 24-105mm IS USM | EF 100-400mm L IS USM | 50mm 1.8mkII
iMac | Mac Mini | 42" Panasonic LED HDTV | PS3
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If this happens in the future try holding down the option key and see if it will let you pick a startup disk manually.
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Yeah .... this sounds as if it should have been a simple fix. Just a reinstall of the os at worst. Did you have it fixed at an Apple Store, or by a 3rd party?
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hey ive noticed this too,my macs completely fine but i get that symbol very briefly when it starts up.only happend recently o.O
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Nope, it couldnt have been a quick fix at all (if only)... No Hard disks showed up in Disk utility Via macosx CD... HD was defiantly broken (lots of clicking)
I tried every reset known to man!! A mac genius couldnt even get it to boot from a firewire boot disk!! (probably a sure sign that the logic-board had gone)
Ive come out of this quite well because now ive got the latest revision logic-board, and it runs alot quieter!!
(just a pathetic niggle, but they have replace some of the external screws with silver ones [as opposed to black-ish ones] i think i can live with them tho)
If you've not backed up this week do it NOW!
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MacBook Pro 2.2 i7 | 4GB | 128GB SSD ~ 500GB+2TB Externals ~ iPhone 4 32GB
Canon 5DII | EF 24-105mm IS USM | EF 100-400mm L IS USM | 50mm 1.8mkII
iMac | Mac Mini | 42" Panasonic LED HDTV | PS3
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