Macbook 1,1 Snow Leopard Possible Broken GPU?

[Andrew_M]

Hello, I have a Macbook 1st gen, with 2 gigs or ram, and Intel Core Duo. I have a Macbook Pro, but I want to use my old Macbook for a secondary Mac. But it has a problem. When I try to boot, instead of showing the login screen, it shows to shades of blue and a spinning wheel. I have heard the Macbook Pro 2011 has this problem sometimes but I have a Macbook 1,1. I have tried booting into safe mode, doing fsck -fy, and many other things, but none of them work. I don't think it is worth it to take it to a Apple Store considering it is like 9 years old. Any other methods I can try? It is running Snow Leopard. I am assuming that the internet works on it because I can access the files on the Macbook on my Macbook Pro.

[Matt420740]

Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.

 

 

If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer.  Proceed with reinstalling OS X.  Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files.  After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.

 

Download and install the Combo Updater for the version you prefer from support.apple.com/downloads/.

 

If you cannot boot from your installer DVD on the iMac, then you can try connecting to your other computer via Firewire cable and use Target Disk Mode to boot and install from the other computer

[watts300]

Hello, I have a Macbook 1st gen, with 2 gigs or ram, and Intel Core Duo. I have a Macbook Pro, but I want to use my old Macbook for a secondary Mac. But it has a problem. When I try to boot, instead of showing the login screen, it shows to shades of blue and a spinning wheel. I have heard the Macbook Pro 2011 has this problem sometimes but I have a Macbook 1,1. I have tried booting into safe mode, doing fsck -fy, and many other things, but none of them work. I don't think it is worth it to take it to a Apple Store considering it is like 9 years old. Any other methods I can try? It is running Snow Leopard. I am assuming that the internet works on it because I can access the files on the Macbook on my Macbook Pro.

Start up the MacBook Pro in target disk mode by turning it on and holding T. Connect the two computers via FireWire and load the start up manager on the MacBook by holding option after you hit the power button. Select the MacBook Pro's hard drive and see how it goes.

This would be considered a known-good volume. If there are issues still, it's hardware and not software.