My MBP 2.16 15" that was running on Snow Leopard stop loading past the gray screen all the suddenly. It gets really hot really fast, but other than that it was still running fine up until the dreaded gray screen.
I was able to recover the data via connected to my imac. So I can see the orginal hard drive just fine. So my first guess was a bad hard drive so I bought a SSD and put it in. The Snow Leopard DVD install disk shows up when you hold the "option" button at startup, but when you choose the Install DVD disk, it doesn't get past the gray screen. I even tried with the DVD install disk the MBP came with 10.4.8 I think, but the same results.
It will boot in safe mode, with the cursor looking like it has small bars underneath it.
I've tried numerous things including
- PRAM/ SMC reset
- taking RAM out and using just the factory RAM
The Mac "Genius" said the hardware test ran fine on everything, but it wouldn't boot up with the network startup, a USB startup or Firewire startup.
I went back to the orginal hard drive last night and went into safe mode. Tried to install Snow Leopard and it starting installing..it took 55 minutes and my hopes were high at midnight. But when it rebooted itself...it just went to the gray screen again.
I'm out of ideas and I'm pretty sure something is up with the logic board. What do you guys think?
I've also heard that the video card on the late 2006 models of MBP give users fits.
all help is appreciated.
I was able to recover the data via connected to my imac. So I can see the orginal hard drive just fine. So my first guess was a bad hard drive so I bought a SSD and put it in. The Snow Leopard DVD install disk shows up when you hold the "option" button at startup, but when you choose the Install DVD disk, it doesn't get past the gray screen. I even tried with the DVD install disk the MBP came with 10.4.8 I think, but the same results.
It will boot in safe mode, with the cursor looking like it has small bars underneath it.
I've tried numerous things including
- PRAM/ SMC reset
- taking RAM out and using just the factory RAM
The Mac "Genius" said the hardware test ran fine on everything, but it wouldn't boot up with the network startup, a USB startup or Firewire startup.
I went back to the orginal hard drive last night and went into safe mode. Tried to install Snow Leopard and it starting installing..it took 55 minutes and my hopes were high at midnight. But when it rebooted itself...it just went to the gray screen again.
I'm out of ideas and I'm pretty sure something is up with the logic board. What do you guys think?
I've also heard that the video card on the late 2006 models of MBP give users fits.
all help is appreciated.
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