2006 macbook 2,1 won't boot again

[wflaw]

Hi again, I had a problem back in june where this macbook wouldn't boot and had blinking question mark. Turned out it was the hdd. I bought a new 500Gb 7200rpm and reloaded snow leopard. Then i went up to 10.7.5 and all was well. I'm in the process of moving 3 states away and haven't used this since end of August. It's been sitting since then. Well I have it back and it has the white screen and if I try to boot from leopard, it goes to the blinking question mark. What are the chances it is a defective hdd. It was new and a Toshiba.I know I know I should dump it and buy new but....I like this one and it works for what I need (uh when it's working lol).
As an edit I put the hdd in a dock and hooked it to a mbp. I was able to view and run checks on it, it was Supposidly fine. Reinstalled and tried all kinds of boot sequences, safe, verbose, reset smc and booting from snow leopard install disc, nothing just spits the disc and blinks question mark. Please any suggestions would be appreciated. Maybe logic board? How does one go about troubleshooting a logic board to be sure what the problem is?

 

[Jack Neill]

Have you tried taking the ram out and re seating it? I too like those old books, my 2,1 had ML on it for a long time. I have been running Tiger on it lately out of nostalgia.

 

[wflaw]

Have you tried taking the ram out and re seating it? I too like those old books, my 2,1 had ML on it for a long time. I have been running Tiger on it lately out of nostalgia.

Have you tried taking the ram out and re seating it? I too like those old books, my 2,1 had ML on it for a long time. I have been running Tiger on it lately out of nostalgia.

[doublepost=1545875314][/doublepost]I actually removed the ram I put in and reinstalled the original which was not causing any problems, I just wanted the max. I've been messing with it and finally got it to boot from the snow leopard install disc. I ran disc utility to format and partition the hard drive. When I ran disc repair these last couple of times, it once said couldn't be repaired but when run again it says repaired. The problem id unused node is not erased. Right now it says the volume mac os could not be repaired after 3 attempts. The hard drive was new in june and loaded with 10.6.and eventually with 10.7. It was used less than a month tgen stored til now. I don't have another good one to try at the moment.
Walt

 

[wflaw]

[doublepost=1545875314][/doublepost]I actually removed the ram I put in and reinstalled the original which was not causing any problems, I just wanted the max. I've been messing with it and finally got it to boot from the snow leopard install disc. I ran disc utility to format and partition the hard drive. When I ran disc repair these last couple of times, it once said couldn't be repaired but when run again it says repaired. The problem id unused node is not erased. Right now it says the volume mac os could not be repaired after 3 attempts. The hard drive was new in june and loaded with 10.6.and eventually with 10.7. It was used less than a month tgen stored til now. I don't have another good one to try at the moment.
Walt

I put the hard drive in an external dock, ran disc repair, (booted from SL install disc), loaded snow leopard after many tries. When I got internet and all squared away it now beachballs and freezes. I've pretty much diagnosed root problem as hard drive cable. I opened activity monitor and really nothing was using cpu, like maybe .6 for system. Which should be it's a "clean install". I can not do updates because it just freezes as soon as it starts. Safari freezes before it fully loads. Is it possible it is just too much for it through the usb and dock? I plan to do the cable soon and retry it all again.