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Macbook Pro 2013 Black Screen but can hear the chime
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1665077" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Ok…all this sounds fine.</p><p></p><p>If I understand correctly…you mentioned that the original HD was removed…a 2nd different HD was installed…and then the original HD was reinstalled. And now the display is black.</p><p></p><p>One thing to keep in mind is…a bad hard drive (or crashed hard drive) would not cause the screen to go black. But possibly…if something is messed up on the hard drive (from an OS or software perspective)…maybe this could cause the display to go black.</p><p></p><p>But. If the computer is booted from an OS install disk…this takes the hard drive "out of the loop". So if nothing else is wrong with this computer…it should be able to boot from the Snow Leopard disk (and the display should certainly light up).</p><p></p><p>Here are some things I can suggest:</p><p></p><p>1. Try an SMC Reset:</p><p><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295</a></p><p>2. Try an NVRAM/PRAM reset:</p><p><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063</a></p><p>3. Try booting the computer from the Snow Leopard disk. Make sure you press & hold the "c" key when doing this.</p><p>4. If the display is still dark after all this. You may want to try attaching an external display to the computer (to see things).</p><p>5. Finally. I don't think you mentioned what OS was installed on this computer before. If it was OS 10.7 or newer…you can try booting the computer into the Recovery Partition. To do this…you reboot the computer…and quickly press the 2-key combo…command + r.</p><p></p><p>HTH,</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1665077, member: 56379"] Ok…all this sounds fine. If I understand correctly…you mentioned that the original HD was removed…a 2nd different HD was installed…and then the original HD was reinstalled. And now the display is black. One thing to keep in mind is…a bad hard drive (or crashed hard drive) would not cause the screen to go black. But possibly…if something is messed up on the hard drive (from an OS or software perspective)…maybe this could cause the display to go black. But. If the computer is booted from an OS install disk…this takes the hard drive "out of the loop". So if nothing else is wrong with this computer…it should be able to boot from the Snow Leopard disk (and the display should certainly light up). Here are some things I can suggest: 1. Try an SMC Reset: [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295[/url] 2. Try an NVRAM/PRAM reset: [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063[/url] 3. Try booting the computer from the Snow Leopard disk. Make sure you press & hold the "c" key when doing this. 4. If the display is still dark after all this. You may want to try attaching an external display to the computer (to see things). 5. Finally. I don't think you mentioned what OS was installed on this computer before. If it was OS 10.7 or newer…you can try booting the computer into the Recovery Partition. To do this…you reboot the computer…and quickly press the 2-key combo…command + r. HTH, - Nick [/QUOTE]
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