MBP intermittent boot

[lucasjld]

Hi there,
I have a mid-2012 (10,1) Macbook Pro Retina 15" that started behaving weirdly a while ago. I formatted and installed Mojave to see if it was a OS problem but it still persists. My current SSD is an OWC 480GB that I changed 3 years ago. My battery is not at its finest either due to its age. I've used it it virtually everyday from September 2012 till June 2016.

When I boot, it randomly finds the SSD or not. If it blinks "?", I just boot again and it works.

Furthermore, when I open it (wake), it sometimes works or sometimes freezes while I'm typing the password or just after. Then when I restart I get that "computer restarted because of a problem" message with this error report:

*** Panic Report ***

panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff80266b867f): initproc exited -- exit reason namespace 2 subcode 0xa description: none



Thread 1 crashed



[...]



Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 18.0.0: Wed Aug 22 20:13:40 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4903.201.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: DF83AD37-501E-3B4F-B1F0-04F3AC90FE35

System model name: MacBookPro10,1 (Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F)

Root disk errors: "Could not recover SATA HDD after 5 attempts. Terminating."



I can post the rest of the log if you want.



Thank you

 

[Raz0rEdge]

The SSD has most likely failed due to the fact that it is sometimes found and not at other times and the SATA error reported there. You will have to replace the drive (and battery too I guess) to use this machine reliably.

 

[ferrarr]

Maybe the SATA cable?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Maybe the SATA cable?

I'm swinging for the home run and not aiming for the single.

But yes, should start with testing the SATA cable.

 

[MacInWin]

Normally if an SSD fails, it's catastrophic and permanent. I'm with Bob on this one, it sounds more like the cable or connections.

 

[lucasjld]

Thank you for your answers. I ran Hardware Diagnostics (the long one) and it didn't detect anything.
I'll see if using another SSD will cause the same error. If it does, it's almost certain its the SATA Cable, right?

Is this cable replaceable? While opening the back to clean the SSD contacts I really could not see how such thing can be done.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

If another, known working, SSD has similar issues then you can blame the SSD cable or the logicboard for sure. I'm not sure about the cable replacement, follow these instructions to get to the area to see what's invovled.

 

[lucasjld]

If another, known working, SSD has similar issues then you can blame the SSD cable or the logicboard for sure. I'm not sure about the cable replacement, follow these instructions to get to the area to see what's invovled.

Thats a non-retina MBP.

I've look everywhere and I'm almost sure there is no sata cable on this model. Maybe a connector problem then? The SSD sticks directly to a connector that's soldered to the board.