Macbook keeps restarting

[guidoverduci]

When I put in the original OEM leopard discs that came with my new macbook, the computer just keeps restarting. Any ideas? I thought these were recovery discs?

[philipxz]

Are you pressing "C" on your keyboard while its booting up?

[guidoverduci]

yes

[philipxz]

IDK. Does your SuperDrive work? Can you play anything from the SuperDrive?
If yes there just might be an issue with the DVD you are given. :confused:

[guidoverduci]

Yeah, drive works fine. When I put the instal disc in and click install, the Macbook reboots and then gets to the grey screen w/ no apple logo and is in an infinite loop of rebooting.

[core2duo]

Might be bad optical media. When Leopard boots, it will do a file system check if it thinks there may be a problem with the drive. Doesn't seem out of the question that optical media would be treated the same way.

I don't know if you can do this, but try option-booting the system, then right after you pick the DVD, hold Command + V. That should let you verbose boot the system, which might give you more clues as to what's causing it to restart.

Good luck!

[guidoverduci]

tried that. Black screen came up w/ some stuff going on, then back to infinite reboot. I'm not a huge computer guy, so I have no idea what that stuff meant.