Fix black screen on startup MacBook Pro issue



Macbook Pro is one of the stylish, slim and light weight notebook. It comes in two screen sizes including 15-inch and 17-inch. It works faster and powered by Intel Quad-Core/Dual-Core i5 /i7 processor. Unfortunately it sometime doesn't respond well. When you start your notebook, you see black screen on startup Macbook Pro. You will notice HDD spinning but nothing else is displayed on screen.




When you restart your Macbook pro, you still receive the same issue. This is generally caused by hardware problem or crash of Mac operating system. In order to resolve black screen on startup Macbook Pro, you need follow the following troubleshooting steps:

  • Try rebooting your Macbook Pro in Safe Boot. To do this start your notebook while holding down the Shift key.
  • You can also try running the Apple Hardware Test. To run hardware test, boot your computer from installation DVD disc by holding down d key.
  • Remove the RAM and reinstall properly in its slots.
  • If you are yet receiving black screen on startup Macbook Pro then you can try reseting SMC and PRAM.

In case after you followed the above steps and still have the same problem then you can try starting your notebook with external display. If the notebook works fine in external display then there may be graphics hardware or driver problem. Therefore, you need to install latest and compatible graphics driver.


If the problem yet exist and couldn't be fixed by any of the methods then you need to reinstall Mac OSX in your Macbook Pro. If you have backed up your data, restore it after reinstall else you can go for Mac data recovery software to recover lost/missing data from formatted Mac volumes.


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