kevinchennn Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Yeah, like the title, I'm stuck at the whitish-grayish apple logo with the wheel after installation. This is with my USB 8GB Drive. I have an HP Pavillion dv2620ca CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58 Video: Video: Nvidia Go 7150 MCP76M Ram: 2 GB Network: Broadcom 4321G Audio: Conexant High Defintion Audio Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylorwilsdon Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Before or after installation (I mean, is this what happens when you boot the install media or when you boot your new operating system installation)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-881852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinchennn Posted September 6, 2008 Author Share Posted September 6, 2008 Before or after installation (I mean, is this what happens when you boot the install media or when you boot your new operating system installation)? Sorry for lack of information, it was after a successful installation. On my first boot, i was stuck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-881870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Sorry for lack of information, it was after a successful installation. On my first boot, i was stuck. What error messages appear on the boot screen when booting with -v? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-881879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylorwilsdon Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Boot from the install CD/media (media meaning USB or whatever you used to install), press F8, then type rd=disk0s1 Replace the 0s1 with the place it was installed (if its partition 2, the 1 would be a 2). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-881881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinchennn Posted September 6, 2008 Author Share Posted September 6, 2008 okay, ill try it right away Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-881950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinchennn Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 TaylorWilsdon: Last time i said i was stuck with the white apple logo screen. I tried booting normally once more before trying your solution and the white apple screen came again. But this time i actually waited for a bit more unlike last time(Last time i was in a rush and i was an idiot. After about 5 minutes of the white apple logo loading screen, a message came up telling me to restart by holding the power button in 4 different languages. http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7792/pict0017lo8.jpg This picture shows what i got on my screen. (This is not my picture) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 You need to boot with -v. Press f8 repeatedly while booting up and then type in -v when "boot:" shows up and hit enter. That will give you a verbose/text mode on boot so you can see what's wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModernChem Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 i'm having that same problem. Is there any way that I could paste the text from "-v" to this forum so you guys could figure out whats wrong? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinchennn Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 but when im in verbose mode, how do i write down all of the text? or how do i know which are the errors? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarneystone Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 What video card do you have? I had that same problem as the result of a video card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinchennn Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 I have an HP Pavillion dv2620 Video: Nvidia Go 7150 MCP76M Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModernChem Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 and my video card is an evga Nvidia 8800 GT 512 mb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinchennn Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 can anyone help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-882237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinchennn Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Can anyone reply pleasE? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-885370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic User Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm in the same exact situation with AMD 3400+, Nvidia Go 7150 MCP76M. I have to confess his is outside my skill area, so... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124711-stuck-at-grey-screen-with-apple-logo/#findComment-885427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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