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This past week I bought a 17" MacBook Pro off eBay. Reputable seller. 1tb SSD, 16gb ram, running High Sierra.
I received the laptop yesterday and started it up. Booted right up, no problems. I connected a few of my accounts and changed the admin password and then closed it for the night, leaving it plugged in.
This morning I opened it up and installed the Arduino ide and chrome. The laptop informed me it had updates to install, so I let it do that. It took a little while, half an hour or so.
Once it was fine and restarted, I opened chrome to look out some info for the Arduino script I was planning on working on. After 10-15 minutes, the entire screen turned blue with vertical lines and froze. It turned it off, waited a few seconds and turned it back on.
It booted the the apple loading screen. The loading Bay gets to 1/4-3/4 of the way and the screen either goes blank (not off though) or white. Rebooting gets the same result.
So far I've tried:
Booting into safe mode (takes longer for the loading bar to load, but nothing different)
Booting into recovery mode (same thing - still good to the apple loading screen, still white screens)
Resetting SMC
Resetting NVRAM
Internet recovery mode (asks me to select a wireless network and enter my password). Gotta to the apple loading screen.
Booting into single user mode - did fine, I get to root prompt. Ran fsck, found no issues.
Booting into diagnostics (get an error that it can't be run)
Booting into internet diagnostics - tried running the expanded test and the laptop died (battery) because I didn't realize there magsafe adapter wasn't charging.
I've already contacted the seller and he told me he can't troubleshoot remotely, but that I can ship it back and he'll refund my money. But I want this laptop. I'm a little gun-shy now about ordering another used MacBook off eBay. And this laptop seemed to work just fine until the os updated.
Is there anything else I should try before I give up on it and send it back?
I received the laptop yesterday and started it up. Booted right up, no problems. I connected a few of my accounts and changed the admin password and then closed it for the night, leaving it plugged in.
This morning I opened it up and installed the Arduino ide and chrome. The laptop informed me it had updates to install, so I let it do that. It took a little while, half an hour or so.
Once it was fine and restarted, I opened chrome to look out some info for the Arduino script I was planning on working on. After 10-15 minutes, the entire screen turned blue with vertical lines and froze. It turned it off, waited a few seconds and turned it back on.
It booted the the apple loading screen. The loading Bay gets to 1/4-3/4 of the way and the screen either goes blank (not off though) or white. Rebooting gets the same result.
So far I've tried:
Booting into safe mode (takes longer for the loading bar to load, but nothing different)
Booting into recovery mode (same thing - still good to the apple loading screen, still white screens)
Resetting SMC
Resetting NVRAM
Internet recovery mode (asks me to select a wireless network and enter my password). Gotta to the apple loading screen.
Booting into single user mode - did fine, I get to root prompt. Ran fsck, found no issues.
Booting into diagnostics (get an error that it can't be run)
Booting into internet diagnostics - tried running the expanded test and the laptop died (battery) because I didn't realize there magsafe adapter wasn't charging.
I've already contacted the seller and he told me he can't troubleshoot remotely, but that I can ship it back and he'll refund my money. But I want this laptop. I'm a little gun-shy now about ordering another used MacBook off eBay. And this laptop seemed to work just fine until the os updated.
Is there anything else I should try before I give up on it and send it back?
