MacOS – Unibody Macbook Stuck on Apple Logo

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My White, Unibody Macbook running OS X 10.8 started to freeze, so I shut it down.

When I went to restart it, it got stuck on the Apple Logo for some five minutes before I just turned it back off.

So far, I have:

  • Checked & Repaired Disk
  • Checked & Repaired Permissions
  • Reset the NVRAM
  • Reset the SMC
  • Tried Safe Boot

For Safe Boot, the loading bar appeared and it started to load. Then, it disappeared and I got stuck with the progress indicator (again) for some eight minutes before I just turned it off.

I need my Macbook for school and all, it has all my work and projects…

Any thoughts? Any input is welcome.

Note: My Apple Care subscription expired < 1 month ago, so… 🙁

Edit

In response to a comment below, I booted up using CMD + V. Here are the results:

...
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
** Root file system
    Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-557~393)
FIPS USER Space POST: Integrity test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: AES GCM test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: AES CBC test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: TDES CBC test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: SHA test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: HMAC test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: RSA test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: ECDSA test success!
FIPS USER Space POST: DRBG test success!
FIPS USER Space POST Success!

And then nothing…

Best Answer

Apple geniuses have a lot of latitude with what they can do. I have gotten a motherboard replacement about 2 weeks after my 3 year Apple Care plan expired. If you go to the store and are honest you could get lucky. I haven't heard of anybody getting service after a month. At the least the genius can tell you for sure what the problem is.

So make a genius bar appointment and see what they say. With Apple it really doesn't hurt to ask.

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