I have a Time Machine backup attached by FW, and even with no HDD I should be able to boot past this point, right? I mean I should at least get past a black screen? So from here on, I'm working withOUT the internal HDD attached at all.Īnyway I removed the RAM on advice in the thread above above - and. This is clearly some mistake I made in taking it apart and putting it back together (following iFixit instructions here iMac Intel 20" EMC 21 Hard Drive Replacement, since it worked fine but for the hard drive before.įirst I removed the new HDD to see if that was it.
Black macbook hard drive replacement pro#
Gave up and put it away for 3 mths (have a new mb pro :)) Tried all the key combinations for clearing NVRAM and holding power button down, etc. Immediately upon closing the case and turning it on I got a black screen, no chime, both fans start briefly, dvd ticks a couple of times, then it repeats itself indefinitely until I pull the plug. The original problem was definitely a bad hard drive - I could start and boot from CD or an external drive). On a 2007 20" iMac after attempting to replace the hard drive - I can't restart the Mac.
but my hardware and symptoms are different and caused by my own hdd replacement attempt hence a separate question) (originally posted as a comment on this thread My MacBook won't boot, no start chime, just the DVD spinning sound.