After plenty of searching and trying what seems like everything, I can't get my Macbook to boot from anything. I hope this is the best forum, it seems to be a hardware issue resulting from a software crash, so maybe someone here has had a similar experience.
It's a Late 2006 Blackbook, came with 10.4 & a 120GB hard drive, upgraded the hard drive about 2 years ago and upgraded to 10.6 about one year ago. Hasn't missed a beat in 4 years.
Yesterday I ran a SuperDuper smart backup to an external hard drive (which I do every couple of weeks), it got most of the way through and then didn't go anywhere, couldn't even get the Force Quit dialogue to open, had to hold down the power button to shut it down.
Now when I turn it on, I can't get it to boot from the internal, external, 10.4 or 10.6 discs, it does the chime then I get the white screen but nothing further (no Apple logo), no matter what I try. The keyboard shortcuts Shift, C, D, Option etc for booting don't work, if I try to boot from a disc it thinks about it for a bit then pops the disc out, eventually (~5 minutes) it usually comes up with the folder-with-question-mark icon. Holding down Option to choose an internal or external drive has no effect at all (the drive is a single partition, no Windows or anything).
I've tried everything I can from here http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_doesn't_boot (eg SMC & PRAM resets) but it won't let me do anything else since the keyboard shortcuts have no effect.
Any other ideas?
I'm guessing that interrupting the SuperDuper backup has done something funny, hopefully just to the internal drive. Is my best bet to buy a new internal HDD and try installing that to see if I can start it up somehow (or at least be able to use the keyboard shortcuts). I do have an extra backup (not the one that screwed up on me) so data loss shouldn't be a problem (phew! but unfortunately it's literally 1000 miles away so I can't access it at the moment)
Any help would be very much appreciated!
It's a Late 2006 Blackbook, came with 10.4 & a 120GB hard drive, upgraded the hard drive about 2 years ago and upgraded to 10.6 about one year ago. Hasn't missed a beat in 4 years.
Yesterday I ran a SuperDuper smart backup to an external hard drive (which I do every couple of weeks), it got most of the way through and then didn't go anywhere, couldn't even get the Force Quit dialogue to open, had to hold down the power button to shut it down.
Now when I turn it on, I can't get it to boot from the internal, external, 10.4 or 10.6 discs, it does the chime then I get the white screen but nothing further (no Apple logo), no matter what I try. The keyboard shortcuts Shift, C, D, Option etc for booting don't work, if I try to boot from a disc it thinks about it for a bit then pops the disc out, eventually (~5 minutes) it usually comes up with the folder-with-question-mark icon. Holding down Option to choose an internal or external drive has no effect at all (the drive is a single partition, no Windows or anything).
I've tried everything I can from here http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_doesn't_boot (eg SMC & PRAM resets) but it won't let me do anything else since the keyboard shortcuts have no effect.
Any other ideas?
I'm guessing that interrupting the SuperDuper backup has done something funny, hopefully just to the internal drive. Is my best bet to buy a new internal HDD and try installing that to see if I can start it up somehow (or at least be able to use the keyboard shortcuts). I do have an extra backup (not the one that screwed up on me) so data loss shouldn't be a problem (phew! but unfortunately it's literally 1000 miles away so I can't access it at the moment)
Any help would be very much appreciated!