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2011 MacBook Pro won't boot after High Sierra update
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<blockquote data-quote="virtuesplea" data-source="post: 1809793" data-attributes="member: 401481"><p>This past week I bought a 17" MacBook Pro off eBay. Reputable seller. 1tb SSD, 16gb ram, running High Sierra.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>So far I've tried:</p><p>Booting into safe mode (takes longer for the loading bar to load, but nothing different)</p><p>Booting into recovery mode (same thing - still good to the apple loading screen, still white screens)</p><p>Resetting SMC</p><p>Resetting NVRAM</p><p>Internet recovery mode (asks me to select a wireless network and enter my password). Gotta to the apple loading screen.</p><p>Booting into single user mode - did fine, I get to root prompt. Ran fsck, found no issues.</p><p>Booting into diagnostics (get an error that it can't be run)</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Is there anything else I should try before I give up on it and send it back?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="virtuesplea, post: 1809793, member: 401481"] 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? [/QUOTE]
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