any new ideas on this? mine is the same way. have a busted screen but using the mini dvi to vga adapter all it gets to is the grey screen then after about 5 minutes with the boot disc in it will get a blue screen with the cursor but nothing more. if i start up without the boot disc it comes to screen with the file with ? in it. not jacking the topic it just seemed like a good path for me as well, thanks!