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lschultz777

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Nov 20, 2009
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2 months ago I had my hard drive and video card (another name for which I can't remember). Now when rebooting I get a second flash of a question mark. Should I be concerned about this?
 
If you're talking about the blinking question mark after POST, it means it can't find anything to boot from, so YES, you should be worried about this. Your hard drive is probably dead or dying. Hopefully, you have a backup of your data.
 
I can't reinstall my dvd as I'm on vacation. I called Apple and they said to bring it in. The nearest store is 1 hour away and no guarentee they will cover it as I'm "slightly" out of warrantee but they said they would work with me.

The flash question mark occurs when I turn on the computer and its flashes for about 1 second. I have everything saved on an external. My Macbook Pro is really for my kids and when on vacation. I use the IMAC at home. So nothing major on this laptop.
 
Detruis, I went to system preferences, to start up disk, clicked on the HD and clicked on restart. Restarting it made the question mark disappear. Does that mean everything is fine? The computer has been running fine (even with the second flash of the question mark).
 
I also did a disk verify thru disk utility and it says Mac HD appears to be ok. Do you think I'm ok now?
 
sounds to me like it was just trying to boot from another disk first and since you changed it now its fine
 
Detruis, I went to system preferences, to start up disk, clicked on the HD and clicked on restart. Restarting it made the question mark disappear. Does that mean everything is fine? The computer has been running fine (even with the second flash of the question mark).

Yes. The ? mark was it not going to your hdd as the first option
 
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