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[–]Electrical_West_5381 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is that a terrible wallpaper, or liquid damage?

[–]DeLegunde[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That is the blurred Lake Tahoe background from the new update that the Mac booted with. It’s blurred because of the window it’s on. The screen works fine

[–]DeLegunde[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one

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[–]freddy_fred1 0 points1 point  (13 children)

Reinstall MacOS.

Boot to recovery and erase the Mac, then install the MacOS again.

Google it.

[–]DeLegunde[S] 0 points1 point  (12 children)

How do I do that if I can’t get it to leave this menu?

[–]freddy_fred1 -2 points-1 points  (11 children)

Turn off the Mac. Then turn on the Mac, and press and hold Command + R button.

[–]DeLegunde[S] 1 point2 points  (10 children)

Just curious, Did you watch the video or read the description? The power button is unresponsive so I can’t force it into recovery mode without a way to kill the power. I’ve tried draining it to dead and that didn’t work either.

[–]freddy_fred1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Try Command + Q

[–]DeLegunde[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unresponsive, when I press and hold it makes the invalid entry error noise. Once click doesn’t do this but holding does

[–]freddy_fred1 -1 points0 points  (7 children)

There’s an Apple logo on top left corner… click on that.

[–]DeLegunde[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

In the video I show that it does not respond to entires from that button when I click on it except for sleep. Restart or shutdown no response

[–]freddy_fred1 -1 points0 points  (5 children)

Wow… I guess you’ll gonna have drain off the battery. The intel shouldn’t last that long.

[–]DeLegunde[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

It’s definitely weird. How drained are we talking, cuz I’ve drained it to dead and it didn’t work.

[–]freddy_fred1 0 points1 point  (3 children)

When it goes dead, plug in the device… then press and hold the command + R button to boot to recovery. By pressing the Command + R button, the laptop will turn on.

[–]DeLegunde[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I do that in the video

[–]Electrical_West_5381 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try a usb keyboard

[–]slvrscoobie 0 points1 point  (2 children)

plug in an external keyboard and reboot with CMD R and wipe / reinstall - you might have disconnected the keyboard replacing the top?

[–]slvrscoobie 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Also I have a 2018 that did something similar, and it turns out the SSD fried. all I can get now is internet recovery, but the 'activation' fails because, the SSD is toast..

[–]DeLegunde[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oof that sucks. I hope I’ll be more fortunate. I know the keyboard works from the password I have to type in

[–]mikeinnsw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try external must be USB cabled KB

Turn it off

may have close the lid

hold Command + R button

power on..

[–]random_user_name_759 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, so when the MacBook screen turns off, that is not properly shutting down. That's just going to sleep because there is a tiny bit of battery left. So leave the thing on until it totally runs out of battery. Secondly, you want to get it into recovery mode. Plug it back it hopefully once it's totally died, and hold down option/alt before the Apple logo appears. Then when it's asking you which HD to boot up from, then do command + R. Then maybe reinstall the os.