I have a MacBook from 2006.
Today i decided to clean up the fan, so I went to ifixit and followed the nice guide. I opened for first time my mac after almost 5 years full work... without any problems and spray the fan that had a good amount of dust. Of course I sprayed also the rest of the internal stuff of the macbook...
I closed carefully and i push the power button. The grey screen arrived instantly, after disappeared and hardly I could see something in the screen with very light shadows that i could see from time to time, i realize that the OSX loads, but after loading the system goes in a way to sleep... or something that is behind the black screen. Anyway, I try to restart etc... nothing change.
I could see the screen like someone turn off the light from time to time and in between black, but at the beginning for 1 second shows me the grey screen perfectly, so didn't looked to me that I have problem in the screen for example...
No way to use hardware test from OSX CD because i couldnt see almost anything in the screen.
BUT, I have another partition with bootcamp and i have windows 7 there. So, i decided to see if something happens there... At the beginning listening that windows loads, seeing some shadows to understand that windows loading AND WHEN WINDOWS WAS FULLY LOADED SUDDENLY I COULD SEE EVERYTHING CLEAR IN THE SCREEN. Now I am writing from the windows of my macbook and no way to enter OSX...
I repeated the windows boot and worked fine after the full load.
So, any ideas before send it to Apple
Elias / Notos
Today i decided to clean up the fan, so I went to ifixit and followed the nice guide. I opened for first time my mac after almost 5 years full work... without any problems and spray the fan that had a good amount of dust. Of course I sprayed also the rest of the internal stuff of the macbook...
I closed carefully and i push the power button. The grey screen arrived instantly, after disappeared and hardly I could see something in the screen with very light shadows that i could see from time to time, i realize that the OSX loads, but after loading the system goes in a way to sleep... or something that is behind the black screen. Anyway, I try to restart etc... nothing change.
I could see the screen like someone turn off the light from time to time and in between black, but at the beginning for 1 second shows me the grey screen perfectly, so didn't looked to me that I have problem in the screen for example...
No way to use hardware test from OSX CD because i couldnt see almost anything in the screen.
BUT, I have another partition with bootcamp and i have windows 7 there. So, i decided to see if something happens there... At the beginning listening that windows loads, seeing some shadows to understand that windows loading AND WHEN WINDOWS WAS FULLY LOADED SUDDENLY I COULD SEE EVERYTHING CLEAR IN THE SCREEN. Now I am writing from the windows of my macbook and no way to enter OSX...
I repeated the windows boot and worked fine after the full load.
So, any ideas before send it to Apple
Elias / Notos