I did a search for this but didn't seem to find what I was looking for, so I figured I would ask.
Mt work was selling some old computers, they had a 2014 MBP they were selling and two others they were authorized to recycle/ give away. They had taken them to Apple and the repair cost was too high. I ended up with a 2014 MBP , a 2015 MBP, and a 2016 MBP with touchpad all 13". The 2014 and 2015 ones I managed to get working again, no problem. The issue is with the 2016 - it must have been dropped at some point. The keyboard is completely unresponsive, the touch bar does not light up or seem to work, and the screen has some wierd liht hining through it on the left part of the screen. However, it does boot up into the recover mode and I am stuck at the "Enter your apple ID" part. I have a usb C to A adapter on order to plug in an external keyboard, I am guess it will work just fine.
My question is it looks like the keyboard and touch bar are both toast, but the power button still seems to work. I was thinking that I could replace the top case, swap in my touch pad which also seems to work just fine, and have a mostly good machine. The procedure looks annoyingly difficult but not impossible, after looking at iFixit.
For more context it looks like this machine has apple care on it too - so if I can get my apple ID on it I might take it in to apple - however, the woman at work also apparently did this and said apple quoted her $1400 to fix. Even replacing the top case and display would not be that much at ebay prices - I can get a top case for around 200-300 bucks looks like.
I was curious about one thing - in order for the touch bar and all that to work, I heard I might need to have apple run AST 2 on the computer to sync everything back up. Is that correct?
Anything else I should try first? If the external keyboard works I will try reseting the NVRAM and all that as well.
Thanks in advance!!
Mike
Mt work was selling some old computers, they had a 2014 MBP they were selling and two others they were authorized to recycle/ give away. They had taken them to Apple and the repair cost was too high. I ended up with a 2014 MBP , a 2015 MBP, and a 2016 MBP with touchpad all 13". The 2014 and 2015 ones I managed to get working again, no problem. The issue is with the 2016 - it must have been dropped at some point. The keyboard is completely unresponsive, the touch bar does not light up or seem to work, and the screen has some wierd liht hining through it on the left part of the screen. However, it does boot up into the recover mode and I am stuck at the "Enter your apple ID" part. I have a usb C to A adapter on order to plug in an external keyboard, I am guess it will work just fine.
My question is it looks like the keyboard and touch bar are both toast, but the power button still seems to work. I was thinking that I could replace the top case, swap in my touch pad which also seems to work just fine, and have a mostly good machine. The procedure looks annoyingly difficult but not impossible, after looking at iFixit.
For more context it looks like this machine has apple care on it too - so if I can get my apple ID on it I might take it in to apple - however, the woman at work also apparently did this and said apple quoted her $1400 to fix. Even replacing the top case and display would not be that much at ebay prices - I can get a top case for around 200-300 bucks looks like.
I was curious about one thing - in order for the touch bar and all that to work, I heard I might need to have apple run AST 2 on the computer to sync everything back up. Is that correct?
Anything else I should try first? If the external keyboard works I will try reseting the NVRAM and all that as well.
Thanks in advance!!
Mike