Macbook Wont boot after Crash

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I was on my mac last night, was just playing wow (:D). Anyway, it just hung in the middle of the game. Waited a while nothing happened, so I pressed and held the power button to switch it off.

Now when I power on, I get the nice little apple sound and then it goes to the apple logo, but thats it. It doesnt go anywhere from there. I've not had much time to play with it. Being last thing last night and having to come to work this morning.

Any ideas what I can do to get it to recover/boot up. Problem is, I dont think I have a time machine back up at the moment :( (I usually do, but long story why I dont at the moment)

Its a solid state drive aswell, so I'm guessing something corrupted when I switched it off.

Thanks in advance.
 
Im assuming OS X?

If so, Im thinking some sort of overheat, leading to a crash, leading to corruption.

Boot it off the OS X DVD and do a 'archive and install' which doesn't delete anything, and moves the old OS to a folder so you don't loose anything.

If it still does it then you have a hardware failure of some sort, but I doubt it would be the SSD tbh.
 
Concorde Rules said:
Im assuming OS X?

If so, Im thinking some sort of overheat, leading to a crash, leading to corruption.

Boot it off the OS X DVD and do a 'archive and install' which doesn't delete anything, and moves the old OS to a folder so you don't loose anything.

If it still does it then you have a hardware failure of some sort, but I doubt it would be the SSD tbh.
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You should be aware that archive and install is not guaranteed to prevent data loss, its still possible some thing could go wrong.
 
Thanks for the advice. From the first reply I think it could be an overheat, it does usually get very hot when I'm playing it.

But I will give it a go tonight.

Many thanks guys.
 
Same thing happened to me. Booted into single user mode and drive is registering as irrepairable fault. Apple genius this afternoon.

****** crazy.
 
Could'nt wait till I finished work. So I popped home to get it.. Did the SMC reset. Works now.

Big sigh of relief.

Thanks again for the help fellas :D Time machine backup will be the first thing to do when I get home tonight..
 
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Yep, that's what fixed mine when it overheated in Vista playing Fallout 3.

Macbooks - great for pretty much everything, except heat dissipation (despite being one giant aluminium heatsink)
 
Its been fine before really, but it was pretty warm last night. May knock the fx settings down a bit.

But cheers for that.
 
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