So ive been using this macbook for almost 6 years now it was doing fine until yesterday it would’nt start. It is a mid 2012 macbook air, hd graphics 4000, 4gb ram.
The power supply still shows a light meaning it does have charge. At one point it decided to boot but it was turning on then turning off imediatly until it decided to turn on for good. i decided to play a game and mid game it just completlh closed. It was connected with an adapter on an external display a usb split with mouse and keyboard and an external hard drive. then after a while i turned it on again but with evrything disconnected and it did turned on and start the os i played the same game and eventually i connected my external hard drive and my mouse, it didnt crashed i eventually went to eat and decided to test by reconnecting evrything even the external display. When i came back from dinner it had closed (no app was running when i leaved for dinner) and woulndt turn on for the whole night. Then i tried it again the following day without anything connected and it did turn on it was a bit slow (the boot up is really fast usually) and eventually it did got on the recover password mode i coudn not get the password to reset because it could not connect with the server so i just reset it and this time it did start i let it open for serval hours amd mothing unusual hapkened when i came back eventually i replugged it to all my things and it did work normally i even rebooted and it did worked fine i also eventually reset its p ram by pressing option command p and r i let it do it 4 times. It worked all night perfectly. So i leave it like that for the day and i just got back from work and it started like normal until In the process of entering my session after the charge bar, it closed again to a complete stop after a few second it did like it would turn back on on its own the fan is running and it gives power to my external drive and keyboard but nothing else happend the screen us not turning on and thes no boot sound i leaved it run for about 15 min then did nothing so i pressed the power button for a few seconds to cose it and it did. I did disconnect all my things exept for the power supply and teies to turn it back on but absolutely nothing happens i tried with no supply nothing happend i replugged it and let it rest for about 20 min nothing still i leat it rest with no supply the retried nothing the retried with the supply in nothing.
Adutional thngs i did
I tried a new power supply while it wasnt working nothing exept the fan
I did update its os while it was working
I did try to twist tre supply wires while it was working nothing unusual happened
While it was working i did try to shake it, close the lid and open nothing bad gappened nothing seemed lose. I did a system report check on the battery plugged and unpluged while fully charged nothing changed and/or out of the ordinary.
Things to keep in mind.
The battery is never being changed ir the laptop open it dosnt smell burnt and isnt unusually hot while its running
Or trying to boot while not working.te battey capacity is very small as the battery is old and wont remain open for more than a minute unplugged if nothing runs. If domething running and its unplugged the screen goes black but if replugged fast enoug will eventually reopen with evrything running as it was exept slow on memory. If tve lid is turn off the laptop moved replugged then the lif reopened it will turn on with evrything running still and smoothly. All this is normal the battery is old. I would appeciate any input on the problem if you have some and ideally a fix solution.
The power supply still shows a light meaning it does have charge. At one point it decided to boot but it was turning on then turning off imediatly until it decided to turn on for good. i decided to play a game and mid game it just completlh closed. It was connected with an adapter on an external display a usb split with mouse and keyboard and an external hard drive. then after a while i turned it on again but with evrything disconnected and it did turned on and start the os i played the same game and eventually i connected my external hard drive and my mouse, it didnt crashed i eventually went to eat and decided to test by reconnecting evrything even the external display. When i came back from dinner it had closed (no app was running when i leaved for dinner) and woulndt turn on for the whole night. Then i tried it again the following day without anything connected and it did turn on it was a bit slow (the boot up is really fast usually) and eventually it did got on the recover password mode i coudn not get the password to reset because it could not connect with the server so i just reset it and this time it did start i let it open for serval hours amd mothing unusual hapkened when i came back eventually i replugged it to all my things and it did work normally i even rebooted and it did worked fine i also eventually reset its p ram by pressing option command p and r i let it do it 4 times. It worked all night perfectly. So i leave it like that for the day and i just got back from work and it started like normal until In the process of entering my session after the charge bar, it closed again to a complete stop after a few second it did like it would turn back on on its own the fan is running and it gives power to my external drive and keyboard but nothing else happend the screen us not turning on and thes no boot sound i leaved it run for about 15 min then did nothing so i pressed the power button for a few seconds to cose it and it did. I did disconnect all my things exept for the power supply and teies to turn it back on but absolutely nothing happens i tried with no supply nothing happend i replugged it and let it rest for about 20 min nothing still i leat it rest with no supply the retried nothing the retried with the supply in nothing.
Adutional thngs i did
I tried a new power supply while it wasnt working nothing exept the fan
I did update its os while it was working
I did try to twist tre supply wires while it was working nothing unusual happened
While it was working i did try to shake it, close the lid and open nothing bad gappened nothing seemed lose. I did a system report check on the battery plugged and unpluged while fully charged nothing changed and/or out of the ordinary.
Things to keep in mind.
The battery is never being changed ir the laptop open it dosnt smell burnt and isnt unusually hot while its running
Or trying to boot while not working.te battey capacity is very small as the battery is old and wont remain open for more than a minute unplugged if nothing runs. If domething running and its unplugged the screen goes black but if replugged fast enoug will eventually reopen with evrything running as it was exept slow on memory. If tve lid is turn off the laptop moved replugged then the lif reopened it will turn on with evrything running still and smoothly. All this is normal the battery is old. I would appeciate any input on the problem if you have some and ideally a fix solution.
