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Unibody MacBook 13" Grey Screen of Death problem
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Dallas, Texas
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Hello all,
I have a 2008 vintage 13" MacBook (unibody) that has been running happily since purchase. I booted it earlier this week and the machine would not go past the grey screen of death. Starting in verbose mode gave me a note (I forget exact syntax) that the drive was not available. No problem I thought. I went ahead and run FSCK and then booted my OSX disk and ran the disk utility just to see what I could salvage (I have backups but why not). Drive utility repaired issues and the reinstall began as normal.
On reboot after install, the machine went back into the Grey screen of death. I again thought no problem and swapped the old drive for another and began the planned reinstall. The issue is that I am still stuck on the Grey screen of death, and this time I am having issue booting to the DVD. I get the feeling this is not a simple hard drive issue.
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next?
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Read my MacWebb column and other great Mac articles at Lowendmac.com
Owner of a MacBook Pro and various other Macs.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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Put the original drive back in and boot holding the D key. Should run diagnostics.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Dallas, Texas
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thanks...had forgotten "d". Bad news, it wont boot with d key either...just spins on grey screen.
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Read my MacWebb column and other great Mac articles at Lowendmac.com
Owner of a MacBook Pro and various other Macs.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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Can you run verbose mode again and post the error?
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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