mycomputerhurts

So, this is perfect timing for my macbook to not ******* work. The other night it had some updates for the Operating system (OS X), which in the midst of it restarting, it fell. The fall didn't appear to damage anything. It was still on and fully operational. Anyhow, it restarted and I began to notice it was slow. It would take 5 minutes of extreme lag (as to which programs would stop entirely) to open some applications.

Now, just a minute ago, I was forced to restart the macbook through this lag and now it continues to run on the OS loading screen but never gets further than that. I don't know if I should wipe the harddrive or what. And if I should. I don't know how. I only use this damn thing since my PC's been down for weeks. Waiting for the company to send me a new motherboard I have to rely on this macbook and I'm beyond being "frustrated" right now over this.

sinclair_tm

well, i hate to say it, but it may of mess your macbook up when it fell, hardware wise. as for reinstalling, if that fails, then you will know forsure that you have hardware issues. if you really want to go that route, then you need the cds/dvds that came with the mac. find the one marked os x install and stick it in the drive. now restart the mac and hold down the "c" key. when the installer fully loads, tell it to do an archive and install. this will put the old os in a folder, and leave all your other settings, docs, and apps alone. when its done, make sure that it can't drop when you run the updater. if you still have issues, then the hardware is bad. if it works fine, then the os was bad, and you can delete the folder the installer made with the old os install in it.