Problem with Mac laptop

[opethdisciple]

Friends mac has an issue I’m going to look at over the weekend.

Haven’t visually looked at it yet as I’m at work, but will deal with it over the weekend.

From their description, the problem is the laptop boots up the little wheel spins then the computer shuts down.

Sounds like battery I say.... she says, even without the battery plugged in but plugged in to the mains instead it does the same thing.

She also said something about the fans go full pelt as well in some scenarios.

Any ideas? I’m not really a Mac person, more windows.

 

[opethdisciple]

The Mac book is model A1261.

Im trying to boot in to recovery mode using cmd + r then turning mac on, but it isnt going in to reovery mode.

Any ideas?

The problem withthe mac is it turns on. starts loading the os (the circle spins) then stops spinning.

 

[opethdisciple]

Got it to boot after booting to single user mode and running fsck -fy.

However seems major hardware issue as after a few mins, the desktop freezes and flashes and you get GUI corruption.