My partner has an old, disused MacBook Pro, maybe 2013. I've decided to see if I can get it working.
The power button doesn't work. Sometimes when I connect the magsafe, it begins to start up. When I unplug the battery, it will reliably begin startup when I connect the magsafe.
Regardless, it only gets partway through the progress bar before shutting down.
The power button doesn't work. Sometimes when I connect the magsafe, it begins to start up. When I unplug the battery, it will reliably begin startup when I connect the magsafe.
Regardless, it only gets partway through the progress bar before shutting down.
- I've gone through the steps to reset the SMC and NVRAM/PRAM, but no change.
- I've done option-command-R to upgrade the OS. The appropriate screen did appear, the installation seems to have completed, but when returning to the startup screen, it still shuts down.
- I cannot get into safe mode.
- I got into recovery mode, but it shut down on the language selection screen.
- I did the hardware test and it didn't return any errors.
