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Wiskedjak
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Oct 10, 2009, 10:20 AM
 
This morning my MacBook seemed to be getting a little flaky. The wifi was connecting and disconnecting, despite my other wifi devices maintaining solid connections. I decided to reboot the machine ... it's been at least two weeks since it was last rebooted. On reboot, I received a chime, but the screen was off. After a few seconds, the screen flashed on but remained blank with no obvious bootup activity.

Is it dead or does anyone know a possible recovery. Laptop is out of warranty.
     
amazing
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Oct 10, 2009, 10:27 AM
 
have you tried an external HD? resetting the SMU and PRAM? can it be seen in firewire target disk mode?
     
Wiskedjak  (op)
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Oct 10, 2009, 10:32 AM
 
Resetting PRAM did the trick.
     
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Oct 10, 2009, 11:41 AM
 
thanks for reporting back--it's always great to hear that something worked.
     
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:40 PM
 
Hi, how did you get to reset the PRAM?
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Oct 10, 2009, 01:08 PM
 
Documented here many times and easily Googled:

Hold cmd-option-p-r at boot until you hear the boot chime at least twice.

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