I was able to boot while holding down Shift, but now my screen is at some ridiculously high resolution, and everything is displayed so small that I can barely see what I'm typing.

The progress bar stalls at about 65% and never gets any further, at least not in the 20 minutes that I waited, twice. The results were not what I was expecting or hoping for. I'm not going to attempt any rebooting or un/plugging of anything until my latest Time Machine backup succeeds, but once it's done, are there more things I can do to try and revive this machine, even if only temporarily?Ĭlick to expand.Thanks! I was able to disable SIP and run dGPU Disabler. Does muting the sound while running also mute the startup chime? It's possible than my previous failures to boot could have been failures of the display, but I also didn't hear any startup chime, but I'd also muted the sound before I put it to sleep last night. Both external displays and the built-in display went dark at the same time.

I deleted a bunch of stuff from the USB Time Machine disk, and I'm attempting a backup now.īut is this display wonkiness something that anyone else has ever seen before? One external display is connected via a TB-DVI adapter and DVI cable, and the other external display is connected to the HDMI port. I was about to give up, and then noticed the fans were still running, so I screen-shared in from my ancient early 2011 13' MBP, and it worked! That's how I'm posting this now. Once booted I connected my two external displays and attempted to get copy some key information off the unit (last Time Machine backup was August 2022), and after being alive for about 5 minutes, all 3 displays gave a flash of despair and then went dark. etc., and then finally got it to boot after 30 minutes of desperation one one false start (Apple logo for 2 seconds, and then dark). I tried a hard shutdown, resetting the SMC, etc. When I tried to wake it from sleep this morning it spontaneously rebooted, and then the Apple logo came up for a few seconds, and then. My mid-2014 15' MBP may finally be dying.

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