Leopard won't boot up... grey screen with shutdown message

[kidalex]

Okay, here's the problem... My little sister somehow messed up her intel macbook running leopard...

Now whenever she boots up there's a grey screen and there's that little annoying message that says "Please restart your computer now. Press the shut off button...blah blah blah".

I tried booting up from leopard cd, but that didn't work. I also tried booting in safe mode. That didn't work.

Please help me!!!

Alex

 

[Metuas]

Firewire. Backup. Format. Install.

Unless, of course, there's an issue with the hard drive.

 

[kidalex]

I reinstalled leopard, but it still is messed up. Something with the hard drive?

any ideas?

 

[applefan69]

any third party hardware being used?

 

[EV0LUTION]

sounds like your hard drive is dead...

 

[applefan69]

sounds like your hard drive is dead...

Not trying to second-guess your judgement

but I doubt that, because how would he been able to re-install leopard if the harddrive wwere dead.

Wouldnt he have simply gotten a "no harddrive detected" error of some sort during installation?

 

[sOwL]

are you trying to install leopard from a restore dvd meant for another type of mac, or, is it pirated? that could give u kernel panics

btw, im not accusing you of pirating, just saying few potential reason