I’ve got a 2020 MacBook Air with the intel processor. I attempted to install arch linux on it and i guess i messed something up as it no longer boots to MacOS. I have attempted everything everyone says to do included trying to reinstall MacOS through a bootable usb. It just keeps trying to boot and brings me to the apple logo and then shuts off. I’m stumped. I have attempted just about everything i could try. anyone got any tips or tricks or advice?

I have three options in the options menu which is Untitled (I assume is my original MacOS) and then EFI boot (which is ArchLinux) and the installer for Catalina. The Macbook acts the same way between Untitled and Catalina installer.

If anyone would like a video of it boot looping, i can link in comments!!

Hi all So I have an strang issue with my MacBook Pro 16" A2141. I did an replacement of the top case due to some liquid damage and after this the Touch Bar seams dead it that sense that when I touch it the functions seam to be working but there is not light/video in the Touch Bar it self. I tried mounting the Touch Bar from the old top case but it still has the same issue. The Touch Bar DID work prior to the top case replacement so I'm wondering it there might be a fuse or something that has been burned? But I am not able to find any real info using google for this. Can somebody in here might help me to were is should look and maybe measure to see if there is a short of broken fuse some where??

I have problem with macbook. It started with cat chewing up the charger chord so that macbook significantly heated up (it was connected when it happened). Then there was a problem with corrupted OS out of the blue but I have restored it and it was working fine till at some point I have been charging it (with a different cable) and it once again significantly heated up and once again showed that the OS is corrupt. By the corrupt OS I mean that blinking folder with question mark and a link to Apple support site.

After some time it turns on once again without issues.

Question: should I look into electric components? Where should I look? How to pinpoint the problematic part?

hey friends, gonna give the person that‘ll help me 50€.

I use my Macbook for my work (no adobe, or big apps). About 2 weeks ago I had 2/3 of my storage (including ALL files) completely free.

Today I was shocked when I saw the nearly full storage.

Used CCleaner, Cleanmymac and tried the ~/Library… code. Only brought me 2gb more.

Please help me Adrian :-)

2019 16” MacBook Pro A2141

It died and would not recharge or power on. I tried the basic reboot steps and nothing worked so I thought disconnecting and reconnecting the battery might be worth a try.

Upon doing that, I believe I damaged the battery flex cable (cable connecting the battery daughter board to the logic board). I also noticed one of the tiny pins came out of the small chip on the logic board where the battery flex cable connects.

I’m wondering if I should buy a new flex cable and replace it or will that still not solve my problem since one of the pins came out of the chip as I mentioned?

After doing all of this, I plugged my MacBook in and it powered on but only with the cable connected, and it no longer displays my battery percentage. So this confirms that my battery is not connected. I’m not sure if the problem is simply the battery itself, the flex cable, or the chip that the flex cable connects to.

If I replace the flex cable, I might still have the same problem of my battery not taking a charge. I can replace the battery and the flex cable, but I may have the problem of the chip on the logic board.

Thoughts? Is it possible to replace the chip on the logic board?

This is the tutorial I followed

https://youtu.be/dup_Qsdt_h4?si=fihszVtP38aTdx4J

I let my MacBook charge over night. Now it doesn’t turn on anymore. Opened the back and the battery was swollen and a capacitor is blown.

When i press on button nothing happens not even the fan is spinnig.

Will the MacBook work if I switch the capacitor or can I just unsolder it ?

Hey guys,

my Macbook stopped working recently. I’ve been trying quite a few things.

Right now I’m trying to reinstall MacOs High Sierra. The Problem is, that after I accept the Terms and Conditions I need to choose a Volume on which it installs Sierra.

But I don’t have a Volume to choose from.

Does anyone have a fix or a tip for it?

I appreciate it 🤞🏻

Hello,

Does anyone know where the power on pads are on a A1708 board are ? I know the touch bar doesn’t have em , but what about the model with function keys ?

Any help is appreciated !

I've got a 14" M3 MBP with the display removed. It got messed with until it ended up in recovery mode (I'm pretty sure the customer erased it).

Now when it boots, I can see that it's using the external display (the mouse shows up when i move it around), but it seems to be sending the main screen which has the recovery options to the main display - a display which is no longer there.

Both Command F1 and Command fn F1 fail to force it to the external display.

Any help is appreciated!

I purchased a used 2019 16" i7 16gb 512gb 5500m 4gb on eBay. I wanted an Intel MacBook Pro because I really wanted BootCamp with some graphics power, and an M1 MBA would be out of my price range anyway. I spent $350. It seems that an extremely common issue is dead NAND and I'm worried that it will strike as soon as I get it. I don't want an expensive doorstop, I want something reliable to replace my aging base model 2015 13". Are my worries justified or should I just enjoy my new Mac? Thank you for your advice.

Hi everyone! I'm new to Apple products and am hesitant to see how much it will cost to repair my MacBook, so I figured I'd ask for some insight before I take it to the Apple Store.

I got a MacBook Air M2 2022 almost 1.5 years ago, and it has been working fine up until this past month. Some of the keys are not working so I had to get an external keyboard to be able to type. The unresponsive keys go down in a column: 4, R, F, and V. When I hit the number 5, it comes out as 45. When I hit the letter B, it comes out as VB. When I hit the volume up key, it increases the volume but also triggers the ] key for some reason, and when I hit the ] key the volume increases. Previously the right arrow button didn't work and the space bar would be triggered on its own randomly, but now they both work fine.

Mind you, I'm incredibly careful with liquids around it because I'm afraid of damaging it, I don't have that kind of money, so I really don't think it's liquid damage.

I'd appreciate any insight you can offer as to what the issue could be, and some steps I could take to try fixing it on my own before sending it in. Thank you so much!

Hi everyone,

I bought this MacBook at a thrift store more recently so figured I found quite a good deal on this but once I turned it on, this is the screen I got. It seems that the MacOS has been completely erased & windows has been downloaded instead? Does anyone have any ideas for how to restore it to a MacOS? I do have a USB stick with several generations of MacOS that I can use to download the MacOS again but I am unsure of how to get it into recovery mode currently in order to achieve this.

Thank you!

Since I bought my MacBook, it’s been making occasional electric, buzzing-like sounds. There’s no pattern to when they occur—they can happen when I’m not doing anything on the Mac, or while watching YouTube or editing videos. It’s been in for repairs three times, but they haven’t actually fixed anything. You can hear the noise when sitting normally in front of the Mac, but for recording it, I had to hold my phone close to the keyboard.

Here the sound: https://youtube.com/shorts/1sU4UPL45FQ?si=VQX8gsx2hU-YApUp

So I just opened up my mac for the first time in a minute and the first thing I notice is that it won’t connect to the internet. Wifi connection is good, wifi works fine on other devices, and the problem persists when close to my router. I tried turning it off completely and back on a few times which didn’t do anything. The Date is on September 22nd which is probably around when I used it last and the time is behind by a few hours even though the time zone selected is what it should be. Tried updating but it can’t connect to the server. Websites like google and youtube will load instantly but immediately have a no internet connection screen. Does anyone have any ideas?

I rescued a 2020 13" Intel MacBook Air from an local e-waste recycling program. It chimes, and I can enable voiceover and it tells me about the "language selection" table which I can only assume means that the machine is ready to be set up again. The only problem is that the backlight is on, but there is no display whatsoever. An external display will be detected but it will also only produce an illuminated backlight with a black screen. I attempted SMC and NVRAM resets to no avail and I can't get it to show up in Apple Configurator in order to "revive" the t2 chip. I have disconnected and reconnected the display cable and the battery. At this point is where I assume it was selected for recycling. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

While reinstalling mac os on my macbook air m1 2020 A2337. After turning on the macbook it wanted to boot, then imedeatly shut of never to be seen again! Some of the caps are shorted to ground on both sides, i measured the cap closest to the battery connector and read 0 ohm, when i measured some of the other caps they showed the same results. Could someone have an explanation as to why this could be happening because i'm very new to microsoldering/board diagnose and don't know where to go from here.

My screen was damaged and I've been connecting to a TV with hdmi cable.

For some reason it only will display in the closed position and will stop displaying when opened. I don't know why this started. Is there a way to it displaying when open again? I plan to repair screen in future but have been traveling a lot.

Both the keyboard and trackpad are not working, and they are both plugged into a small control board. trying to decide if it's the control board or trackpad that's failed, does anyone know if the keyboard will stop functioning if the trackpad has gone bad? The backlight on the keyboard does work still, but no keys.

will i lose keybaord backlight etc....

hello, so i have had an accident tonight. i am losing it.

i was minding my business making a hot chocolate (literally just milk and cocoa powder put in the microwave because im a simple guy) because i felt like it. and i was going to sit down to drink this hot chocolate with my macbook air m3 in my lap, as usual. it was still hot, so i put some in a spoon and went to blow on it like i usually do so i wouldnt burn my mouth off. by accident i blew just a tiny bit too hard and about a little less than a teaspoon of this concoction flew onto my keyboard, it was basically just a few drops. i wiped it off immediately and looked up what i should do, so i have shut the mac off and put some paper towels in between the screen and keyboard and laid it upside down. but since its hot chocolate and not water, i figure it wont just evaporate. ive already reported it to my insurance company but it said itll take 1-3 weeks to get back to me. this is a CRISIS, i am a student and have exams in a month.

am i cooked???

Hello All,

I was trying to diagnose the board (it pulls 5V and 0 Amps) and I have stumbled upon, that the board is missing a bunch of resistors and capacitors which are in the board view.

Is this is normal phenomenon or are they needed?

https://preview.redd.it/jb6gzv1jk4zd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9be772bb6b3d493c5f0ac32bb3d4ecc613d5bc5

Hi!

I am getting some vertical pixelated lines on my MacBook. Sometimes, it goes completely black, or it is pixelated or completely normal if I sort of adjust the angle of the screen.

I heard that if the screen assembly is replaced by a third party, I won't get truetone anymore compared to an LCD-only replacement.

I don't need truetone but I do need night shift.

Will night shift continue to work if the screen assembly is replaced by a third-party repair shop?

Thanks!

Battery needs service, as the health is on around 75%. Few days ago the problem started. When closing lid and after a while opening it, it said it was restarted due to unexpected error. That lasted for a few days. I somehow accidentally plug it in into another type c charger for a day or two, not sure if this worsens the problem. One day the boot loop problem starts. I tried PRAM, NVRAM, SMC reset, and it does not help. I got into safe mode one time, but did not take the chance to do any diagnostic tests... silly me. Thinking that it might be the third party applications that causes it to restarts, I decided to wipe off the MacBooks and reinstall OS X. I did that using recovery mode disk utility. I don't care about the data anyways. I believe I had disk partitioned and OS X Yosemite installed. The internet recovery download and install was smooth. But when it starts to run the system, the apple logo showed, white bar loads to a specific point, curser appears and then boot loop again! Now I am stuck. Safe mode causes loop too, there are white text at the corner though. PRAM, NVRAM, SMC reset does not help. Recovery mode shift option command r brings me to internet recover download. Download is good. After that when I choose the language in the prompt, it lags a little and it restarts again.

Is it worth it to try changing the battery? Or is there anything to do with the iCloud protection, as I did not delete the account before recovery? Chance of hard disk issue? Or is it bricked?

Hi there. I can’t say that I’m rookie in this, but sometimes I meet strange things…

So, 2015 MacBook Air A1466. It starts and loads to macOS. Nobody knows pass. So macOS reinstalling is required.

I can’t do it because every time MacBook just starts already installed macOS. I start it with pressed Option to load from USB, with pressed Command + R to run recovery. It seams that SMC reset probably works, but I’m not sure. However NVRAM reset doesn’t works, like another keys combinations. So, standard methods don’t work.

I’ve tried a few not standard things…

1. I had keyboard replacement, so I’ve connected it instead original. All the same. So keyboard isn’t a reason. Actually I thought I’ll just replace top case or keyboard and all will be solved. But not

2. I’ve removed SSD. I tried to start it with pressed C (I am not sure it it worked), but I’ve started from USB with macOS installer. I’ve run Safari in installer and I’ve tested a keyboard on some site (something like testkeyboard.com). Keyboard is fully working.

3. I’ve installed SSD in similar A1466 and started macOS installer. I’ve erased SSD, started installing. Installer started, copied all needed files, MacBook was rebooting. I’ve turned it off and back SSD in this MacBook with this faulty keyboard. Installing resumed and stuck at “less than 1 minute”.

So… I can back SSD in another MacBook and finish installation. But i guess I’ll just get working laptop with same problem - can’t do anything with pressed keys at start.

Do you have any idea?

I gave in and decided to start developing such a programmer, named in the title.

I made a proof-of-concept earlier this year for programming iPad Air 5 displays based on an RP2040 because I was not aware of any commercial programmers at that time. Since that, I learned that JCID has released one. That was a simple project in contrast to this task, because these drivers have built-in flash contents too.

I am planning on probing the parade display driver chip under linux on my main machine first for any extractable firmware, but eventually I'll need working DP855As and EEPROMs to flash, so I can test my findings. I got my hands on an M1 14" for this project, which has physical damage to the driver ic. (And only that, what are the chances? The previos owner got the lid bent by a nail. The panel is pristine, and the backlight also works with anoter LCD attached.)

So if anyone has any of these working chips pulled from a dead macbook's screen, I'ld love to get my hands on them. Either if they are from aliexpress screens or pulled from dead screens. Already found blanks on TaoBao, but it'll take more than a month to get here and probably they won't be as useful as the pre-programmed ones either.

I changed my MacBook Pro 1706’s screen yesterday after the former owner hadn’t turned it on since 2022.

The touchbar display is functional, but it’s completely numb to the touch.

Any solutions ?