OSX won't start!

Hello,

Well tonight, my brand new Macbook Pro started to get slow, and then it froze. So I turned it off, and switched to bootcamp.

However, later, when I turned it back on, I got an error message saying "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds."

So I followed the directions, and everytime it starts, this error message appears.

However, Windows 7 via bootcamp works perfectly fine! What is going on with my computer? Is the only way to get it fixed to bring it to the Apple store?

Thanks,
Brendan

 

I followed your instructions and I then ran a hardware test using the install CD. As it turns out, there is a hardware issue and I am going to the Apple store to see what's up. The part which doesn't make sense to me is that Windows 7 works perfectly fine in bootcamp, and if there was a problem with the hardware in the computer itself, how could the faulty hardware work fine under one operating system and not the other?

 

I have Windows 7 straight from the Windows website; it's called the Windows 7 RC, or Release Candidate. You can download it from the microsoft website.

Objectivist-C;
As it turns out, you must be right. There is a hard drive failure on my computer, so Apple is giving me a brand new one for free.