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    iM 4,1-14,4 Cant get Windows fully working iMac 10,1

    Hello everyone! I have an iMac 10,1 (Late 2009, 21.5 Inch, Core 2 Duo E7600, ATI Radeon HD 4670) and I can't get Windows fully working on it. I've already tried a plethora of methods for install for which none of them works completely. The main issue at hand is that after following the...
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    Black screen on 15" late 2013 to mid 2014 logic board swap

    Hi! I just replaced my late 2013 15" MBP 2.3GHz logic board to a mid 2014 2.8GHz (661-00680). The replacement board looks mint, like new. The charging light on the cable works, the fans are spinning up, but I'm getting nothing on the screen and no boot up sound. I tried a SMC reset, PRAM...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro 3,1 OCLP Monterey. 24" LED Cinema remains black after NVRAM reset.

    Hello, for many years my early 2008 MacPro worked very nicely under El Capitan. After being unable to synchronize my iOS devices I decided to test OCLP and made a direct jump from El Capitan to Monterey. That worked nicely but I wanted to fix the WIfi and bluetooth issue and changed the stock...
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    How to fix black screen on dropped MacBookPro ?

    MacBookPro 2012 15” A1398. No visual damage was found. Mac was inside of suitcase and it was inside of a bag. Mac boots up,I can hear the chime,but the screen is totally black,not even “light” black. Caps lock light doesn’t work. I tried SMC,PRAM reset, didn’t work. Reconnecting screen...
  5. Tadros

    iPhone 15 Pro Max Screen Unresponsive

    So last night, I placed my iPhone 15 Pro Max on the wireless charger I have from Belkin, as I do every night. I have the phone set to charge only up to 80% since I am home most days anyway. When I woke up around 6:30 AM ET, my screen was not lit. I keep the always-on display on, but it only...
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    MBP 1,1-10,2 MacBook Pro 13" late 2012 A1425 dead after battery change

    Hi, I am not an electronics' specialist. A week ago I replaced the battery in my old but perfectly working MB Pro. This was its second battery change since purchase. The new battery was aftermarket but listed as "original"! After connecting the charger, the LED on the Magsafe lit up green...
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    Black screen while working and external monitors are fine

    TL;DR; I'm using a MacBook Pro 14" M1 Pro and I have 2 external Dell U2520D connected via USB-C. I also power my MacBook Pro from the same USB-C. Every once in a while when I plug in my MacBook I end up with three black screens. Long story: When I connect my MacBook with the two USB-C cables...
  8. Lysak

    Mid 2010 17 inch MacBook Pro 6.1 No Display

    Hey, this thread is an updated version. My previous thread had stated issues about many things but I have corrected most of them. Last of the issues are that there is no backlight but shows the desktop when light is flashed through the apple. I did find the fuse F9800 and found it to be faulty...
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    MacBook Pro 2009, charging but black screen on startup...

    Hi, My Mac was working fine yesterday but today the battery indicator on the side does not display anything until plugged in. It appears dead when not plugged in. When I do plug it in the green indicator lights display and the charger light on the charger is there but the laptop doesn't turn on...
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    Black screen on 4K monitor with unsupported Mac Mini 2011 and OpenCore Legacy Patcher

    Hello! I have an old Mac Mini 2011 that I upgraded to Monterey thanks to Opencore Legacy Patcher. It works perfectly with HDMI on a 1080p monitor, but on a 4K monitor it shows a black screen :-( The signal seems to be received by the 4K monitor, since it doesn’t show ”No signal”. Does anyone...
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    HELP! MBP Retina 15" Mid 2012 Black Screen on Boot up.

    Hi all, I am having issues with my MBP. I would say it has been an intermittent issue now for a couple of months and now seems to be getting worse. Initially i would close the laptop and when coming back it had shut itself down quoting it had shut down due to an issue. The battery needed...
  12. Mymindisempty

    Black screen after login, no admin account found in recovery

    My M1 mac mini (16 GB) has been running smoothly since it arrived in early 2021 until the latest MacOS update (12.5 I think), which I installed recently. Something must have gone wrong during the installation, because now things has gone black. The Mac mini seems to boot up normally and shows...
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    iMac 2017 27" nightmare

    So I think I killed my iMac.... Its an 2017 A1419 27 inch it came with i5 3.8GHz - I wanted to upgrade to an i7-7700, plus 1TB nvme Got all the parts, watched all the videos Big day comes - have al my fixit instructions printed out, go through it step by step, have my screws and parts...
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    MacBook Pro 15 2015 black screen

    I have a 2015 15 inch MacBook Pro, the Radeon M9 370x model. If anyone has any expertise with the below I’d be very grateful for help! Please see all facts and testing so far: It started turning off to a black screen with the fans high. When it rebooted it would give an error log, panic(cpu 6...
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    iPhone 13 Pro Bottom Half of Screen Black

    My wife's iPhone 13 pro, which has worked flawlessly since purchased last September without issue, is black on the bottom half of the screen as of this morning. The phone has not been dropped, no water has been spilled on it, nothing that should not happen to a phone physically has happened. It...
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    iMac 2638 (late '13 21.5") - new SSD/RAM but black screen

    I have had a lengthy repair starting with trying to upgrade to a SSD and upgrade the RAM on a late '13 21.5" iMac. Unit starts up; i.e. I can hear the fan spinning and after several seconds I hear a start-up chime, but the screen stays black; no apple logo. I have checked and the LED lights on...
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    MacBook Pro 8.1 2011 - Thunderbolt 2.0 display not working under Win11

    Hello! =) First post here! Just acquired a (reasonnably priced, cheap) MacBook Pro 8,1 , early 2011 13" (Dodged a bullet lol, didn't knew 15 and 17" had dGPU issues hehe). This is my first Mac (I have been using Hackintoshes since 2014 but it was a challenge/educational thing more than any...
  18. pabloalcaraz

    Kernel Panic and Black Screen iMac G4 (No OS)

    Hi everyone, I have a iMac G4 that I change the HD, so now has a clean HD new. I changed the battery I switch on and does nothing, sometimes appears the logo and gets kernel panic, sometimes I enter to Open Firmware with "Invalid access memory" message. But the most cases is black screen. I...
  19. foleyo10

    Stuck asking for firmware password?

    Hello guys, I recently changed the thermal paste on my MacBook, it was working perfectly for a week or so, even running 10-15 degrees cooler. Unfortunately yesterday my screen + touchbar suddenly cut out to black. At this point I tried all the usual resetting smc, pvram, etc - all to no avail...
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    MP 6,1 MacPro Late 2013 6,1 Booting issues -- Black Screen

    Recently I experienced some issues booting. I sent it to Apple they replaced the GPUs, Logic board, and a few cables. I got it back yesterday and it still is having issues booting correctly. The boot issues are the following, it boots perfectly fine into Windows 10. If I restart my computer and...