I just got this Mac from my grandma because she said it wasn’t working. It boots and lets me go into recovery mode but crashes in a similar way whenever a loading bar starts. I’ve tried booting every different way and cleared nvram. I didn’t see any clearly visible damage on the logic board, and I’m willing to try any ideas as long as I can keep the price of fixing this under $100.
I’m not sure but I think it’s not supposed to do this.
Forgot to mention it’s a MacBook pro 2020 (A2289) 13’’
This is either a bug with the graphics driver (easy to fix) or a hardware fault with the graphics chip (new laptop time).
Check to see if the graphical corruption only happens in macOS using something like a Linux live USB. If it’s still there, it’s a hardware problem.
If it goes away, back up her information using Time Machine and reinstall macOS.
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My money is still on the logic board having passed away. Apple has been using logic boards that do this for a long time now. It’s one of the first things to die on MacBooks.
Yep it’s this. My iMac did the same thing and they had to replace the logic board.
Whatever the hell that even is
The logic board is what they call the motherboard (and everything soldered to it)
when it happened on my pc two decades ago it was faulty VRAM. It’s because when it’s loading doesn’t use GPU. Need to replace the video card that means send the laptop to the e-waste.
edit: it’s m1 mac so there’s no vram, right? So it’s faulty GPU which means faulty SOC = completely wasted?
Yo op! I found this in my saved items… 4 weeks later: did you get it fixed? Hope so!
Talk to Apple.
This is either a problem with graphics memory or graphics silicon.
That puts it into logic board level repair territory, which will certainly push you past the $100 threshold.
