I just got this Mac from my grandma because she said it wasn’t working. It boots and lets me go into recovery mode but crashes in a similar way whenever a loading bar starts. I’ve tried booting every different way and cleared nvram. I didn’t see any clearly visible damage on the logic board, and I’m willing to try any ideas as long as I can keep the price of fixing this under $100.

  • antidote101@lemmy.world
    15·
    7 months ago

    My money is still on the logic board having passed away. Apple has been using logic boards that do this for a long time now. It’s one of the first things to die on MacBooks.

    • nick
      3·
      7 months ago

      Yep it’s this. My iMac did the same thing and they had to replace the logic board.

      Whatever the hell that even is