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System is shutting down during OS upgrade

Hi I found this thread having a similar problem:

Computer: Macbook Pro A1211 (late 2006)

My HD stopped working (no back up...) and the machine shut down. The Snow Leopard DVD was in the disk drive.

After a year we bought a new internal HD: a Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD Hybrid SSHD 500 GB (8 GB Flash) ST500LM000. After reading a lot about it on the net. Tried to install the OS from internal hard drive - but It was broken too.

Tried to install from an external drive first Snow Leopard following all the online instructions - but after awhile it said: Could not install needed archives. I found the original disks (tiger) but even before I came to choosing language It shutdown the computer.

Could the problem be what Mayer describes? and what to do. I have an manual but can't find any the jumpers.

Thanks

Søren Bendixen

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The Seagate SSHD does not have any jumpers to set the SATA speed. It has auto speed sense.

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I think you have a deeper problem than the hard drive issues. Just to be clear here your system boots up and the screen shows a folder icon with a blinking question mark in it and if you leave the system on it stays this way (plugged in). If the system shuts down on its own you likely have a logic board failure.

If the computer stays in this condition we can try to fix the drive issues. Do you have a second Mac or a friend who has one? You need to find a Mac with a FireWire connection (the newer systems don't have it any more). With a FireWire cable you'll connect your system to the other, then when you boot up your system you press the letter T to get your system into Target Mode. That way your system is seen as if it were an external drive to the other system. Once in this state you should be able to check your current internal drive using Disk Utility and if you need to salvage any of your files you can also copy off as needed.

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