chrilled Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hi all. I wonder if anyone have some thoughts or tip on what to do. I have a old macbook 1,1 core duo. It started a few weeks ago with a spontaneously blinking backlit and ended up yesterday in a unbootable system. The blinking screen might be unrelated or an indication of the problems that followed. I updated to 10.5.6 and all seemed fine. After a few days the touchpad and keyboard started behaving a bit strange, but not to the degree that I thought of any thing of it. A few days ago I surfed while in bed with the macbook on the nightstand. I fell asleep with the computer on. I woke up and tried to wake the computer from sleep. This is where the problems began. After a hard reset (.. as it wouldn't wake..) with holding the power button until the computer was turned off I came to the office and booted up as usual with my external keyboard and mouse. After a while I reached for the internal touchpad instead of the mouse and noticed that it was completely unresponsive along with the internal keyboard. The icon even disappeared in sys prefs.. I tried restarting and reseting every acronym I could find on apple supports pages -noting (might be that the external wont send those commands... even tried the unresponsive internal, but it didn't solve the problem). Then I reinstalled OSX a few times.. Everything booted up and I had a clean install, but still no keyboard or touchpad. I noticed however that sometimes while booting -even before the unresponsiveness- a folder with a questionmark blinked before displaying the apple logo and continuing to boot as usual.. This became an issue again and I read about some connector beneath the battery since It wouldn't boot at all at one point. I gently applied preassure with my finger and voila the system booted. BUT.. then I still had an unresponsive touchpad and keyboard so I decided to try a hardware restore or something from the install DVD.. I set the drive as startup unit in OSX an rebooted... Well.. this time everything went even more wrong.. I can hear a faint chime and the gray screen appears.. then after a while it goes black and displays a message that it cant find any boot devices.. Please press any key to continue... (remember my unresponsive keyboard?).. I even tried to run a fresh firmware restoration CD that I created from my other mac but that -and not even the osx install dvd would boot... I even tried to clone my brothers harddrive from an identical macbook, but still it wouldn't boot. I tried every bootable install option that I could come up with.. From internal, to external drive/usb, cloned and restored installation dvds.. The only thing I could boot is windows vista 32 bit, but that won't install.. And a ubuntu 8.10 live cd.. I even tried installing Ubuntu when it had finished booting in order to get access to some booting-options but the external keyboard and mouse wont work untill fully loaded.. so "press esc to enter menu" while booting is not accessible... I just dont know what to do... I'm not a technician but it seems odd that some boot (all mbr?) and not the osx installer.. I guess that I just have to get it repaired.. Kind of hard when you are on a students budget though... Anyone with some kind of advice for me? Hell.. throw in some pitty-posts, I need them right now. And no, I'm not selling it as spare parts. /Chrilled Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147079-macbook-11-wont-even-boot-now/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
inimicus Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Sell it for parts and invest in a new machine. While this isn't easy on a student's budget, it sure beats shelling out needless cash to resurrect a nearly 3-year-old machine. With this many funky issues, who knows how much you'll have to throw at it to get it working again. Not pessimism, but rather optimism. Perfect excuse for a new machine! Yay! Other than that, I've got nothing. It sounds like you've tried everything I would attempt. Goodluck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147079-macbook-11-wont-even-boot-now/#findComment-1042480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrilled Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Thanks for the voice of reason! I think I am still in denial. It might as well end up with a fast and painful slaughter, but if someone still have any advice don't hesitate to throw in a comment. /C Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147079-macbook-11-wont-even-boot-now/#findComment-1042652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrilled Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 I just got the thing booting again. Maybe this little tip could help someone in the future.. First: I have not managed to bring back the keyboard or the trackpad from the dead... Second: I noticed two alternatives for accessing key combinations at boot if your built-in is broke. 1. I read that there is a trick when using a aluminium keyboard... It wont accept commands to display boot menu.. so aim the remote towards the computer and hold "menu"...Fun uh? 2. Dont use the aluminium keyboard... I just swapped in a old keyboard from my PC and voila.. I could alt-boot... Anyway.. didn't know this about the alu keyboard.. This might save someone a lot of time.. Still no working keyboard or trackpad :-( ..And hardware test doesn't report anything wrong.. /Chrilled Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147079-macbook-11-wont-even-boot-now/#findComment-1050372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stylez Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 sounds like your logicboard is broken, maybe a 'hair crack' (dont know if this is the right word in english) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147079-macbook-11-wont-even-boot-now/#findComment-1050611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Conte Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Just wanted to share when I saw the 10.5.6 update. Lots of people reported this after updating to 10.5.6 via Software Updater or somewhere else on their Macbooks and Macbook Pros. Some of them took their machines to Apple Stores and they said the logic board may be burn. And a logic board is like a new macbook. And look at my post maybe this would help for your keyboard. But I strongly suggest you to downgrade from 10.5.6. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147079-macbook-11-wont-even-boot-now/#findComment-1054679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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