My Macbook Pro is Broke :(

[Alex T]

Well... Only a year after getting my Macbook Pro it broke :(

I was watching a movie on the laptop, when out of the blue it froze, it got so hot I almost burnt my lap. It then made the dreaded sound no one wants to hear from a laptop *click, click click*" Then it shut down and blacked out.

I thought "oh crap"... I tried to restart, turn it off, but no just froze at a black screen. Once in awhile made the clicking sound while my DVD was in it. I thought yep its fried :(

I unplugged it to let it cool and took the battery out. Then next day I tried to turn it on, I only got a gray screen and then even worse, the dreaded blinking file/folder with a question mark on it. Having worked with Macs before I knew usually if you saw that, combined with the clicking sound..your computer is done for. Hard drive is gone.

Luckily I have apple care, so I'm gonna call them Monday and find out what to do exactly. I really fear I have lost all my music and pictures on my laptop, this is gonna majorly suck.

Alex

[moose135]

Should have gotten a PC :D :D :D

[Alex T]

Should have gotten a PC :D :D :D

I have one and it sucks so much It's not even funny.

The mac, this is the ONLY problem I have had with it.

Alex

[PhilDernerJr]

Sorry to hear. Losing your computer is a horrible experience.

[Derf]

Sorry to hear. Losing your computer is a horrible experience.

It is not as bad if you have a pastel colored mac.


Being a certified mac hardware guy and certified on almost all laptop/pc/servers/printers/monitors.....well I can go on all day.....

you should not be worried about the data that much...PC Froze then got really hot...... a hard drive will not make the laptop hot. There is a good chance that your hard drive is NOT damaged. the question is... do you know a friend with a mac book that will let you plug your hard drive into?

Cheers, it is probably just the mac...HDD is probably good! I give it a good probability!

[Alex T]

Well folks more updates. I spoke to APPLE, and my Hard Drive is completely wiped out, I lost all my pictures and music :(

It was not an apple problem. The DVD I was watching was the culprit of the problem. It wasn't apple mac os x compatible and literally made the hard drive eat itself out.

As an FYI the DVD was THE AVIATOR.

Alex

[RDU-JFK]

Well folks more updates. I spoke to APPLE, and my Hard Drive is completely wiped out, I lost all my pictures and music :(

It was not an apple problem. The DVD I was watching was the culprit of the problem. It wasn't apple mac os x compatible and literally made the hard drive eat itself out.

As an FYI the DVD was THE AVIATOR.

Alex

Does that mean you can't watch DVD's on a MAC?

[Matt Molnar]

Why would a DVD cause the hard drive to self destruct?

[hiss srq]

Looks like your Apple is actually a lemon.

All jokes aside I am sorry for the loss Alex. Computer issues are not fun.

[Alex T]

The DVD THE AVIATOR is not MAC OS X compatible for some strange reason. Not EVERY DVD is like The Aviator.

When the rep asked what I was specifically doing at the exact moment of the shut down I explained I was watching a DVD Movie, he asked me to look at the back of the DVD and I skimmed it and went over a line in VERY small print, "THIS DVD/ROM IS NOT COMPATIBLE FOR APPLE OS X SOFTWARE/PROGRAMS"

He then goes, oh boy, and thinks it was the culprit because I had NO OTHER problems with the laptop for over a year and then this happened.
Alex

[Midnight Mike]

Well folks more updates. I spoke to APPLE, and my Hard Drive is completely wiped out, I lost all my pictures and music :(

It was not an apple problem. The DVD I was watching was the culprit of the problem. It wasn't apple mac os x compatible and literally made the hard drive eat itself out.

As an FYI the DVD was THE AVIATOR.

Alex

Sorry about the computer! Sheesh these days, losing a computer is like losing a pet...

[Alex T]

Hahah I know.

It just sucks I have to change all the music, and I lost all my photos.

But not the worst thing that happened me, god knows that.

Alex

[moose135]

It just sucks I have to change all the music, and I lost all my photos.

Did you have any of it backed up? That's something we should all do - I know I've been lax about it in the past, but I'm getting better. I got a 160mb external drive about a year ago after my work PC had a hard drive crash, that I use for semi-regular backups, and I just got a 500mb external drive that I'm devoting solely to photo storage (no, I'm nowhere near filling that up yet!).

[nwafan20]

It just sucks I have to change all the music, and I lost all my photos.

Did you have any of it backed up? That's something we should all do - I know I've been lax about it in the past, but I'm getting better. I got a 160mb external drive about a year ago after my work PC had a hard drive crash, that I use for semi-regular backups, and I just got a 500mb external drive that I'm devoting solely to photo storage (no, I'm nowhere near filling that up yet!).

Boy, I'm a bit surprised how you couldn't fill 500MB (1/2 of a GB) ;) haha

But seriously Alex, sorry for your loss. It sort of is your Macs fault, they didn't program their operating system to accept all DVD formats! Next time buy a Windows :D

[moose135]

Boy, I'm a bit surprised how you couldn't fill 500MB (1/2 of a GB) ;) haha

Yeah, that should have been a 500GB drive :oops:
Of course, my first PC had a 10MB (that's right, ten megabyte) hard drive and 5 1/4" floppy disks...