2012 MacBook Air White Screen Problem

[thepirategamerboy12]

Hi, I just made my account because of this issue that cropped up for me lately:

So, I have been handed a 2012 Macbook Air model A1465 and wanted to do a fresh re-install of the OS since it had all the previous owner's stuff on it. Unfortunately when I tried using the Internet Recovery to re-install Lion, it wouldn't work and I just kept getting a "Can't download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X." message. So, I got a High Sierra DMG and wrote it to a flash drive with a Windows program called TransMac. I booted to the drive on the Mac by holding down the option key, but then it got stuck at an Apple logo for over half an hour. I hard powered it off, and now every time I turn the computer on all I get is a plain white screen. No question mark icon, nothing.

I have no clue what the hell I did to cause this, I never even got far enough to go into the disk utility to touch partitions, etc. I've literally never bricked a device in my life until now. While the newest Mac I've ever had in my hands until now was a PowerMac G3 from 1997, I had no reason to suspect what I was doing would cause this. I have followed all the steps I could find online to reset the PRAM, hold Command+R for recovery (which as I eluded to earlier used to work), etc. Nothing works.

Any help/tips would be appreciated, thanks.

 

[kibepo73]

When any of the Mac systems shows the white screen of death error, you need to resolve the Mac issues before losing your precious data stored on your Mac’s drive. macOS kernel shows the white screen of death error to safeguard its operating system or hardware from damage and resulting data loss. The error might occur due to:

• Incompatible third-party software
• Fatal application error
• Failing Mac hardware
• Failing Mac storage drive

The white screen of death error can be resolved by simply restarting your Mac. If the restart doesn’t help, go through the following troubleshooting methods to fix the error:

1. Boot your mac in safe mode
2. Reset SMC (System Management Controller) settings
3. Reset NVRAM/PRAM
4. Repair the hard drive using the disk utility’s first aid
5. Reinstall macOS

Hope it helps!!

 

[thepirategamerboy12]

When any of the Mac systems shows the white screen of death error, you need to resolve the Mac issues before losing your precious data stored on your Mac’s drive. macOS kernel shows the white screen of death error to safeguard its operating system or hardware from damage and resulting data loss. The error might occur due to:

• Incompatible third-party software
• Fatal application error
• Failing Mac hardware
• Failing Mac storage drive

The white screen of death error can be resolved by simply restarting your Mac. If the restart doesn’t help, go through the following troubleshooting methods to fix the error:

1. Boot your mac in safe mode
2. Reset SMC (System Management Controller) settings
3. Reset NVRAM/PRAM
4. Repair the hard drive using the disk utility’s first aid
5. Reinstall macOS

Hope it helps!!

Thanks for the reply, but I tried all of those things already and nothing worked. Anyways, I don't even have the computer anymore, gave it back to the owner (who got it for free so it wasn't a huge loss at least) soon after I made that post.