Never woken up from standby

[HerrOh]

Hello everybody,

Got a big problem, when i was working on my master thesis document, i closed my macbook(physically with display down). He goes into standby. But when i opened it again, he didn't woke up. Pressed every keys, touched the touchpad, nothing happened. Then i hard rebooted, nothing happened, only the fan started making extreme loud noise. So i did a hard shut down, disconnected everything(powersupply, battery,usbstick,etc etc). Inserted the battery and the powersupply again and booted. My screen lit up, logo appeared, and the cicle(busy icon of the mouse) but it didn't rotate. Also the fan started making the loud noise again.

Can anybody please help me, i need to give my thesis document next friday to my school... it's very important...

Thank you very much

 

[iLog.Genius]

Try SMC/PRAM reset. You might want to boot off the install disc and run disk utility.

 

[Ol3s]

Wow, well not much can be said. Leave it for a couple of days shut down (that solved most of my problems on my pc, but then again it was a pc)

 

[HerrOh]

Try SMC/PRAM reset. You might want to boot off the install disc and run disk utility.

Hi iLog.Genius,
Thank you for your quick response.
Where do i find the SMC/PRAM ?

Kind Regards,
Herr

 

[iLog.Genius]

Hi iLog.Genius,
Thank you for your quick response.
Where do i find the SMC/PRAM ?

Kind Regards,
Herr

To reset SMC:
- disconnect AC adpater and remove battery
- press and hold power button for 5 sec

OR

with the battery in and AC adapter connected, press shift-control-option (on the left side of keyboard) and power wait 5 sec and then power up

To reset PRAM

turn computer on and press and hold command-option-p-r until you hear 3 startup chimes, after the 3rd chime, you may release.

 

[HerrOh]

Thanks ilog, but now I even don't get the gray screen anymore... only loud fan noise

 

[clyde2801]

Get applecare on the phone, if you have it. Or, get thee to an apple store.