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Startup screen frozen with lines of boxes

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gradstudent88

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Oct 2, 2011
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As I was using my 15" MBP, it suddenly froze and then shut down. When I booted it back up, it booted to the regular start screen with the circular timer, but there were vertical lines of boxes running down the screen. After a while, the circular spinning timer stopped, and it just sat there. Whenever I shut it down and reboot it, the exact same thing happens. Here's a picture of what my screen looks like so you can see the lines (ignore the slight glare in the middle of the picture).

Please help!!!

http://tinypic.com/r/mcqd0o/7
 
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Replacing the logic board won't erase my hard drive, will it?
 
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Replacing the logic board won't erase my hard drive, will it?
 
gradstudent88 said:
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Replacing the logic board won't erase my hard drive, will it?
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No. Why would it? It's always advisable to have a backup anyway, all hard drives eventually fail, and data recovery is very expensive.

You should always keep important files in at the very least 2 different places(meaning 2 different hard drives.) Dropbox or sugarsync are a good way to do this.
 
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