New i7 MBP - booting to blueish grey screen - help

[ckeck]

I just picked up a new i7 MacBook Pro over the weekend and have been setting up things over the past few days...everything working great. Today when I got home I just took it out of the laptop bag and booted up and its going to this funky looking blue/grey screen where I can see my mouse cursor very faintly in the background but nothing else.

What could be happening? Tried rebooting several times but it happens consistently. I need my laptop for work (all I use) and I can't get into an Apple store until tomorrow night...any help or insight, tests, possible fixes would be greatly appreciated!

 

[ckeck]

Pic attached for reference...don't mind the yellow haze...something with the lighting around the computer.

 

[ckeck]

Hmmm...works ok in safe boot...some kind of display driver issue? Wouldn't expect that on a Mac and haven't seen any issues like this in years.

Thoughts?

 

[ckeck]

Found the issue and I'll post notes here in case anyone else runs into this. Earlier today I installed some drivers for a USB based video card I have from Display Link. The USB video card worked fine at the office earlier today after the initial reboot but it was the only thing I could think that could cause this issue since I got home.

Booted into safe mode and downloaded the driver installer, ran the uninstall script, reboot and bam, I'm back in business. Guess they need to do some testing/updating for the new i7 MacBook Pros. I'll send a note to Display Link so this issue can get resolved hopefully.

Hope this helps someone in case they end up in the same situation...

 

[bigcat]

Interesting. Thanks for posting. I was planning on using the displaylink driver as well. Please post back if you find a solution when using the driver.