a few months ago my Macbook Pro (2.16ghz intel core duo purchased in 2006) froze completely giving the spinning rainbow cursor. The cursor also showed a small rectangular box of faint blue horizontal lines behind it, which moved when the cursor moved.
It would not go away at all, even when other apps or the desktop were clicked on, so i forced shut down. Upon restarting it showed the apple screen, but then just a blank grey screen which it would not go past.
So I forced shut down again, and after this it started up normally and worked as normal up until a few days ago when the same thing happened with the cursor again, and now it will not go past the grey screen at all.
However it DOES boot up ok in safe mode. The hard drive seems to be fine, ran disk utility and just a few permissions needed repairing which I have done.
I took it to the genius bar in my city today, they had a look, couldn't get it to load off their own hard drive. At one point he got it to load onto some other screen... which i'm not sure the name of but it showed a lot of small icons going horizontally across the screen. He said that he was trying to click on one of them and it seemed like the shift key was constantly being held down.... and that the problem might be something to do with that..... but surely then that would mean it would always boot in safe mode? and it doesn't seem to be doing it when actually open in safe mode.
another guy in the place said that due to the cursor issue it could be a problem with the graphics card, and with the old machines, it meant I would need to replace the logic board. neither of them really seemed to know what the problem actually was though and they just gave me the contact details to a place called macsys which is another official place that fixes apple products, for a price of course.
just wondering if anyone had this problem and knows of a fix, as i cannot really afford to replace the logic board at this time. oh also it is running snow leopard, but i do not have the installation disc as it was purchased second hand.
thanks!
It would not go away at all, even when other apps or the desktop were clicked on, so i forced shut down. Upon restarting it showed the apple screen, but then just a blank grey screen which it would not go past.
So I forced shut down again, and after this it started up normally and worked as normal up until a few days ago when the same thing happened with the cursor again, and now it will not go past the grey screen at all.
However it DOES boot up ok in safe mode. The hard drive seems to be fine, ran disk utility and just a few permissions needed repairing which I have done.
I took it to the genius bar in my city today, they had a look, couldn't get it to load off their own hard drive. At one point he got it to load onto some other screen... which i'm not sure the name of but it showed a lot of small icons going horizontally across the screen. He said that he was trying to click on one of them and it seemed like the shift key was constantly being held down.... and that the problem might be something to do with that..... but surely then that would mean it would always boot in safe mode? and it doesn't seem to be doing it when actually open in safe mode.
another guy in the place said that due to the cursor issue it could be a problem with the graphics card, and with the old machines, it meant I would need to replace the logic board. neither of them really seemed to know what the problem actually was though and they just gave me the contact details to a place called macsys which is another official place that fixes apple products, for a price of course.
just wondering if anyone had this problem and knows of a fix, as i cannot really afford to replace the logic board at this time. oh also it is running snow leopard, but i do not have the installation disc as it was purchased second hand.
thanks!