Macbook on Snow Leopard Sleep freeze, slow boot time, blue screen, ... etc.

[Rhuantavan]

Hi, I have a white macbook () has the following problems:

1. When closing the lid or pressing the power button the computer freezes, the fans start spinning fast it stays like that until it drains the battery. This happens every time.

2. Start-up times are very long, like 3 or 4 minutes. This also happens every time.

3. Now after a fresh snow leopard install it doesn't even start up completely, as it stays showing a light blue background and I can hear the music of the introductory animation.

4. Also, the keyboard is unresponsive at the login screen, but the mouse cursor moves and the display goes to sleep normally. Clicking anywhere with the mouse also produces no effect.

5. It seems to work OK in safe mode.

The macbook worked ok with the factory installed Tiger. The SL DVD is OK, as its installation has been tested on another Mac. The machine's advanced hardware test passed successfully. Resetting Pram and SMC did not solve the problem.

I don't know what else to do... please help.

 

[iBookG4user]

Boot it up from the Mac OS X Install disc and open Disk Utility, then run "Repair Disk" on it and post what it says. It sounds like it might be a hard drive problem.

 

[Mike225]

Sounds like it doesnt "just work". You should switch to Windows.

 

[Sun Baked]

could be the drive.

Go to www.versiontracker.com and download SMART Utility and check to see if there are an abnormal number of bad sectors, or the errors are in triple or quad digits.

 

[nymphe]

Hello,

I've the same problem on my Macbook Unibody (Late 2008)

Booting is very slow, at the login screen I've to wait 4-5 minutes, after that mouse and keyboard begin to work.

Kernel_task is using constantly more than 100% processor and the computer gets warm.

Have you found a solution? Did Apple find a solution?

I really appreciate any answer.

Thanks.