A couple of days ago my 2011 13 inch MacBook Air booted to a white screen. I looked up possible fixes including resetting the PRAM and booting to recovery mode or Disk Utility. The problem is no matter which trouble shooting keyboard combinations I try it just boots to a white screen. Does this mean it is the hard drive or could it be the motherboard as well? If I press the cap key on the keyboard when it is powered on it does not light up so I don't know if that would be a hint that it is not the hard drive.
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2011 MacBook Air Boots to White Screen Question
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White screen but no OS load is a fairly common symptom of a semi-dead drive. Its still recognized enough not to trigger the NO OS question mark, but dead enough not to load anything.
I just replaced the SSD on my 2011 11" with a m.2 sata ssd. It very straight forward. I've seen those drives go for 25-30 quid and about 7-10 quid for the adapter.
I just replaced the SSD on my 2011 11" with a m.2 sata ssd. It very straight forward. I've seen those drives go for 25-30 quid and about 7-10 quid for the adapter.
