Quote from Skippy722:

your harddrive might be going bad, do you have the restore disks that should have came with the computer?

Hi Thank you for your reply

yes i have both disc's but i have tried them but still no joy and it is a struggle to geet the disc out again because all i get is the spinning fan and the apple logo i also saw that when close the i book it is not switching off

apple care tell me it is a software problem is this the same as you think ? i appreciate your comments Bryan