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Current version by Walter Galan, Jan 9 2012

Title:

MacBook won't boot at all

Text:

Hi There

I have a 2008 White Macbook 13.3 which is the dual core model. My DVD drive broke meaning that every time i booted up and had to go through a series of cluncking noises. So i took it apart and remove3d the drive as i don't really need it. After putting everything back together all booted up sweetly but i lost keybaord and mouse. So I took it apart again and all looked ok - the cable seemed fine? I also plugged in a USB keyboard and mouse and they worked fine.

Here comes the stupid bit - I foolishly plugged the DVD drive back in to see whether there was any type of relation to the keyboard not working but I forgot that the thing was still plugged in and running and in doing so everything stopped. So now it's completly dead :-(

So i'm guessing that i've blown the motherboard - Anyuone got any other views or adeas on what i can do next? is there anything i can do to veryfy this - could there be a fuse somehwere that could have blown?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Charlie

Device:

Tags:

macbook 13", macbook dead, macbook won't boot, macbook won't start up

Status:

open

Edit by lemerise, Jan 9 2012

Title:

MacBook won't boot at all

Text:

Hi There

I have a 2008 White Macbook 13.3 which is the dual core model. My DVD drive broke meaning that every time i booted up and had to go through a series of cluncking noises. So i took it apart and remove3d the drive as i don't really need it. After putting everything back together all booted up sweetly but i lost keybaord and mouse. So I took it apart again and all looked ok - the cable seemed fine? I also plugged in a USB keyboard and mouse and they worked fine.

Here comes the stupid bit - I foolishly plugged the DVD drive back in to see whether there was any type of relation to the keyboard not working but I forgot that the thing was still plugged in and running and in doing so everything stopped. So now it's completly dead :-(

So i'm guessing that i've blown the motherboard - Anyuone got any other views or adeas on what i can do next? is there anything i can do to veryfy this - could there be a fuse somehwere that could have blown?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Charlie

Device:

Tags:

macbook 13", macbook dead, macbook won't boot, macbook won't start up

Status:

open

Original post by Charlie Nunn, Jan 7 2012

Title:

MacBook won't boot at all

Text:

Hi There

I have a 2008 White Macbook 13.3 which is the dual core model. My DVD drive broke meaning that every time i booted up and had to go through a series of cluncking noises. So i took it apart and remove3d the drive as i don't really need it. After putting everything back together all booted up sweetly but i lost keybaord and mouse. So I took it apart again and all looked ok - the cable seemed fine? I also plugged in a USB keyboard and mouse and they worked fine.

Here comes the stupid bit - I foolishly plugged the DVD drive back in to see whether there was any type of relation to the keyboard not working but I forgot that the thing was still plugged in and running and in doing so everything stopped. So now it's completly dead :-(

So i'm guessing that i've blown the motherboard - Anyuone got any other views or adeas on what i can do next? is there anything i can do to veryfy this - could there be a fuse somehwere that could have blown?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Charlie

Device:

macbook 13.3

Tags:

macbook 13", macbook dead, macbook won't boot, macbook won't start up

Status:

open