Stuck on blue screen, spinning wheel.

[Lovelock]

Hi, bought an 13" white macbook today off a friend for cheap. I knew it had issues and he said it stuck on loading. Which it does.

After reading around it appears it a common problem, but i cant get to the bottom of it.

It shows the login bit where it has the loading bar, then goes to a blue page with curser and then back to spinning wheel.

I have tried the fsck and PRAM stuff.

Just tried botting in verbose mode but it just has one line which is showing it: Login Window Application Started.

Its been like that for 10 minutes or so.

I do not have the install disks but will try and get them if he has them.

Any help?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You could get the 29 USD Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD and use that for reinstallation purposes.

Mac doesn't boot

Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck

Troubleshooting: My computer won't turn on

A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac​

 

[Lovelock]

i think ill take a trip to the apple store tomoz

 

[discounteggroll]

have you tried booting into safe mode (holding down left shift key when you turn the computer on)?

as simsaladimbamba said, drop $30 on the SL disc. You're gonna need it eventually