Recent content by cathymac

The left side is definitely hot. Also the back of the computer, say three inches from the very back is really hot from the center to the left side. This is actually where the most heat is. Does this mean that even if I get a startup disk I still won't be able to fix it?

Really, a bad HD? So it didn't have anything to do with my attempt to gain admin access afterall? I noticed and continue to notice that it is running really really hot, even though it's not doing much. I don't know if I'm just now noticing this or it's a new problem. Could the HD or other...

I posted earlier about my macbook pro not booting up. Still the case but I was able to get into single user mode and to view where it's getting stuck (by going into verbose mode on the failed safe boot). It's telling me that BootCacheControl "could not write playlist." What is the...

Ok, actually safe boot doesn't work. When I do a normal safe boot a load bar shows up and when it progresses to the end it disappears and I'm left with the same old grey screen with logo and spinning wheel. When I do safe boot in text mode ("verbose") it spits a bunch of stuff out and then...

Ok, so I can get into safe mode now, I also reset the nvram/pram stuff but no luck. I'm more hopefully now though... Any chance anything in the safe mode screen dump would tell me what's wrong? Also, can I try and repair my os from safe mode? I tried to type in commands but nothing happened...

My 15" MacBook Pro is stuck on the grey screen with the logo and the spinning thing. This happened after I tried to recover admin access to it, since I forgot my password and had simply been using the user account with "standard" permissions. I tried to follow the instructions on...