[oobrokensilence]

I have a black MacBook purchased in June or July of 2006. It has been running fine with no issues up until recently, when my clickpad began to work sporadically, but I could deal with that.

Today it fell off of a surface approximately 2 feet in height. It was operating fine after the initial fall, but a couple of hours later it did something similar to when a Windows-based machine freezes. The pinwheel popped up, as did several items and I couldn't click on anything to force a quit, restart or shut down, so I held the power button.

On restart, it loaded extremely slowly... like 5 minutes+ and is now moving very slowly. The pinwheel keeps popping up even when the trackpad is touched, although nothing seems to be lost.

When it reloaded, a window popped up in red and gray with an alert but it vanished before either my fiance or I could read it. At this time, everything seems to be very delayed and it is certainly not running like normal.

I have not tried to connect to the internet or anything of the sort since the reload. Any ideas on what has happened or what can be done? I would really like to avoid sending it in for repair, as I can't afford to be without my notebook for so long, but if I have to I guess I have to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Cew27]

hmm, i know mac have a shock protection on their harddrives preventing damage but it might not have worked properly?
you could download an ubuntu live cd and boot from it to make sure it is just the harddrive that ma be damaged

[oobrokensilence]

ok....so when i insert the unbuntu cd into the slot it shows up and reads all of the files...but when i restart the computer to start the live cd boot it just boots up to regular osx with a windows saying "the disk you inserted is not readable by this computer."

it is giving this warning even without putting a cd in though. it seems fishy to me.

[Cew27]

hmm, have you set it to boot from the cd in the bios?

[oobrokensilence]

i have not. how would i go about doing that?

i am fairly new to the mac os world its throwing me through loops to be quite honest. i cant make heads or tails for the most part.

i dual boot with Ubuntu on a pc so i am fermiliar with it that way but when it comes down to it...macs just confuse me.

[Cew27]

they confuse us all lol ok i just asked my brother and he thinks that the apple loading screen is the bios!!! that's why he claims his macbook boots in 10 seconds when its more like 20 because he claims the apple loading screen is bios and when we raced i waited till the bios had loaded because i hadnt set it up it booted slow because it was looking for floppy's
so in short i cant help you get into the mac equivalent of bios

[Gazmondo]

Try reading this article, it may be of use...

http://blandname.com/2006/09/20/wher...rmware-easily/