Question Unresponsive Macbook With White Screen of Death

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kapsey

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I've had a bit of a wild ride with my poor late 2009 Macbook Unibody. Several months ago, I popped it open to fix the trackpad, which somehow killed the logic board. Just today I recieved a new logic board and installed it, and it finally has power!

Unfortunately, there's a new problem. It's stuck on the white screen and I can't get it to boot anything. Safe mode, hardware test, and resetting the PRAM were all useless; it just stayed white.

The only odd thing I've noticed is that I distinctly remember the optical drive making noise at startup, but now it's silent. The thing still makes the startup sound, but I find it kinda weird that my drive is quiet now.

Also, I don't have any of the boot discs and stuff you'd get if you bought it new.
 
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I already tried; it was the first thing I did when I initally broke it. The repair shop is how I found out the logic board was bad and they wouldn't replace it for me, so I had to do it myself.

The hard drive is probably dead, so I was gonna take it back and have them replace it since they'd have the parts. I just figured I'd try what I could before paying someone else to do it.
 
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Are you using a wrist strap to earth yourself when working on the Mac? It sounds like you might have damaged the logic board again. Easily done if you haven't taken adequate precautions against static electricity. A bad hard disk should show a flashing icon, so I doubt that's the problem. I assume that you have done the usual reset the PRAM/SMC stuff. Have you tried starting in safe mode? The Apple web site contains quite a lot of information about diagnosing boot problems.

If the repair shop that you used was unable to replace the logic board for you I would try to find another shop that is competent to work on Macs.
 
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I work on an antistatic mat. From what I've googled, it seems that a bad hard drive can cause the mac to be unable to boot, which is usually what the white screen indicates.

I've tried everything. I can't boot into safe mode, reset the PRAM, nothing. There's no response from the computer; it just stays white.

The reason the repair shop wouldn't replace the logic board is because of the macbook's age. They are no longer in production, so anything you can buy would be used.
 
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