Hi, I’ve searched the interwebs high and low for an answer to no avail.
I bought an original MacBook from a friend with a qwertz German keyboard. It was woefully slow and overheating so I opened it up and cleaned it best I could, and put on new thermal paste. It only worked intermittently while plugged in so I replaced the battery and charger and it now charges fine and holds a decent charge for its age. Trouble is now, one morning it suddenly shut down and won’t reboot - it sticks at the Apple logo and has a large glitched graphic in place of the mouse pointer that I can move around. Yet it never proceeds beyond the Apple logo. I’ve restarted, reset pram and the other one, no change. So I booted from an original Lion install disc, erased the drive and reinstalled Lion. All going well until I tried to restart, and it stuck on the Apple logo again with a glitched 5cm square on screen (moveable) for the mouse pointer.
any ideas to what is broken, it is a hardware issue? The one last thing I was gonna try was to fit a zif ssd in place of the Samsung hdd but I fear the issue lies elsewhere.
Thanks
Adam.
I bought an original MacBook from a friend with a qwertz German keyboard. It was woefully slow and overheating so I opened it up and cleaned it best I could, and put on new thermal paste. It only worked intermittently while plugged in so I replaced the battery and charger and it now charges fine and holds a decent charge for its age. Trouble is now, one morning it suddenly shut down and won’t reboot - it sticks at the Apple logo and has a large glitched graphic in place of the mouse pointer that I can move around. Yet it never proceeds beyond the Apple logo. I’ve restarted, reset pram and the other one, no change. So I booted from an original Lion install disc, erased the drive and reinstalled Lion. All going well until I tried to restart, and it stuck on the Apple logo again with a glitched 5cm square on screen (moveable) for the mouse pointer.
any ideas to what is broken, it is a hardware issue? The one last thing I was gonna try was to fit a zif ssd in place of the Samsung hdd but I fear the issue lies elsewhere.
Thanks
Adam.
