My Apple MacBook seems to freeze at startup (gray screen appears, startup sound repeats over and over and over; acts frozen). I have tried numerous startup troubleshoots for that problem, but wonder if the audio CD in the MacBook drive could be part of the problem? How do I eject an audio CD when my computer won't start up?
You could be right. What to do is start it up and hold down the trakcpad button as soon as it starts up. Failing that try the F12 key or the eject key when starting it up, sometimes actually lifting the macbook up and pointing the DVD drive downwards i.e. using gravity to let the CD drop.
If the CD ejects and it isn't the problem causing the startup problems, what I would be tempted to do if the other troubleshooting solutions have not worked, if it still under warranty or if you have Applecare, contact apple and arrange to get it taken in for repair. Failing that take it to your local Apple Store and make an appointment at the genius bar, they usually are fairly good at diagnosing problems and solving them.
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The Apple logo is probably embedded in a chip; without any sign of an error, I would be suspecting the harddrive. When you first turn it on, listen closely to the end where the drive is located to ascertain whether the drive is irregularly seeking or constantly repeating the same motion. The latter means the drive cannot find the sector it needs to boot.
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If you have your Mac OS X Install disc, insert it into the drive.
Restart the computer and hold down "C" while booting.
Choose your language.
Select "Disk Utility" from the "Utilities" in the menu bar.
Select your Macbook's hard drive in the left sidebar.
Click the "First Aid" tab thats along the top of the viewer window.
Click "Verify Disk" (not verify disk permissions)
If this shows errors click "Repair Disk"
Once completed close the Disk Utility window.
Restart the computer.
If this fails to fix it as well then your next option would most likely be recovering your files from the macbook either by booting into target disk mode (hold down T at startup) and transferring them via a firewire cable, or removing the hard drive and hooking it up to another Mac to get the files. Then do a clean install of Mac OS X using your installation discs.
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If that does not work, when you turn on the computer, hold the "Command" and "S" keys, this should boot to single user mode. When finished, it will dump you to a command prompt. From there type "/sbin/fsck -fy" (no quotes) and press enter. That wil run the BSD Filesystem Check. Once that is complete, type "reboot" and hit enter.
If there was an error with the file system that was keeping you from booting, that will solve it.
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unfortunately on the newer mac computer including the macbook you cannot boot to open firmware but there are other options
option 1)simply try holding down the mouse button or track pad button during boot after the first chime is sounded this will instruct the computer to eject the cd through the firmware
option 2) you can bypass the cd boot by holding down the option key after the first boot chime another simple solution this will allow you to choose a startup disk during...startup
after which you can try the eject button on the keyboard or select the disk in finder and eject via trash can or eject symbol(symbol located in the open folder view of finder)
option 3) there is also a manual eject button though it may be harder to locate as they have change placements of it over the years however it can usually be found by probing the top center or far right of the cd slot with a paper clip just be gentle you don't want to damage an expensive piece of equipment by just carelessly jamming metal in it
you may want to try searching apple with your particular model and search for manual cd eject
best wishes,
Crash
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