Hello.
I have a 2.16 CD MBP that has worked beautifully up until 3 days ago when I went to wake my computer from sleep. When I touched the trackpad the screen lit up and I was stuck in SBBOD, I tried shutting and opening the screen, force quit, but to no avail - just the beach ball.
After 10 minutes of this I shutdown the computer by holding the power button down. Upon restarting the computer, I was greeted with both the "prohibitory sign (ghostbuster's NO sign)" and the "question mark folder". I cleared the PRAM and held down X as I booted the comp, but that didn't get it to boot either (same PS and QM signs). I was frustrated so I left it alone for about 30min and came back to try again. This time it worked, however it literally took 10 minutes to boot into OS X. Once inside OS X everything (safari, adium, itunes, etc..) was EXTREMELY slow, usually opening then crashing then re-opening the program to finally get them to cooperate. I verified/repaired permissions but that didn't seem to help the sluggishness. I went to SysPref>Start up Disk and selected my HD and clicked "reboot now" and since then my computer (same PS and QM error symbols) refuses to reboot. I can't think of what else to do. I don't use BootCamp or have an external drive.. Has anyone else experienced this? My gut feeling is my HD is dying, however I hope I'm wrong. Any ideas on what to try??
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I have a 2.16 CD MBP that has worked beautifully up until 3 days ago when I went to wake my computer from sleep. When I touched the trackpad the screen lit up and I was stuck in SBBOD, I tried shutting and opening the screen, force quit, but to no avail - just the beach ball.
After 10 minutes of this I shutdown the computer by holding the power button down. Upon restarting the computer, I was greeted with both the "prohibitory sign (ghostbuster's NO sign)" and the "question mark folder". I cleared the PRAM and held down X as I booted the comp, but that didn't get it to boot either (same PS and QM signs). I was frustrated so I left it alone for about 30min and came back to try again. This time it worked, however it literally took 10 minutes to boot into OS X. Once inside OS X everything (safari, adium, itunes, etc..) was EXTREMELY slow, usually opening then crashing then re-opening the program to finally get them to cooperate. I verified/repaired permissions but that didn't seem to help the sluggishness. I went to SysPref>Start up Disk and selected my HD and clicked "reboot now" and since then my computer (same PS and QM error symbols) refuses to reboot. I can't think of what else to do. I don't use BootCamp or have an external drive.. Has anyone else experienced this? My gut feeling is my HD is dying, however I hope I'm wrong. Any ideas on what to try??
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.