Hey guys i am mac newbie, I tried to install windows on my mac the other day using bootcamp everything went smooth i made 13 GB partition for windows since i am not gonna use it that much. I start installing windows xp pro sp2 everything was good till the end. I restart my computer and pressed opt/alt key so i can choose to reboot between partition nothing shows up just the icon for the windows cd. i took the cd out and tried to reboot it again just gray screen shows up 🙁. I googled the problem couldn't find anything so i though what if insert the leopard cd and try to install it again might work, I inserted OS X leopard and tried to reinstall it when I had to choose the which hard desk the leopard to be installed nothing shows up🙁 i tried this again nothing happened. is there anyway to fix the problem? and i wanna know if i can recover or backup my files coz they are alot of my school work that need in the future 🙁 thanks in advance
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hey xUKHCx
I tried all the reboot commands nothing shows up what made the problem worse the gray screen keep crashing too 😕 for example when press opt/alt to choose drive or cd the icons show up in the grey screen but computer crash in few seconds 🙁. I think my problem way bigger than i thought it would be. thanks
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crashing on the grey screen? How does this present itself.
It does sound like it could be quite serious, I have never heard of this crashing on the grey screen before.
This page documents the boot sequence for intel macs http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303363
From what you are saying it doesn't sound good. But hopefully someone else on here has had this problem before and will chime in. Thats a point, do you get the hardware test chime that happens on startup, if not it could be hardware related. In all honesty if no one else replies then I would call apple and tell them what is happening, or if you ive near a store book it in for a "genius" to see it happening.
It does sound like it could be quite serious, I have never heard of this crashing on the grey screen before.
This page documents the boot sequence for intel macs http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303363
From what you are saying it doesn't sound good. But hopefully someone else on here has had this problem before and will chime in. Thats a point, do you get the hardware test chime that happens on startup, if not it could be hardware related. In all honesty if no one else replies then I would call apple and tell them what is happening, or if you ive near a store book it in for a "genius" to see it happening.