Iphoto froze on runway, rebooted and white screen appeared with flashing file and ? mark. Same in safe mode. Tried start up with Shift down,Command S down etc all the same.
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The question mark means your Book can't find a operating system. This is either a failed hard drive or corrupted system. Start up from your system installation DVD by inserting the disk and restarting holding down the "C" key. Go to the second screen pull down menu to Utilities, Disk Utility and see if you can repair the drive. If it won't repair, come back and give us the last three letters of your serial number so we can direct you to the correct hard drive installation procedure.
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Hi @mayer ,
I’ve went into recovery and attempted to repair the drives using First Aid. Result is good. But I’m still getting occasional system reboots, and '?' folder flashing. I’m still able to boot into macOS sometimes. After which there is an error message (I’ve been seeing different errors each time). Some include:
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8004814e67): "AppleS1XController::setPowerState(0xffffff8017a7d800 : 0xffffff7f875dabc6, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100734 ms"@/AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-6153.141.1/iokit/Kernel/IOServicePM.cpp:5296
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f883f0231): nvme: "Fatal error occurred. ID=-1 ARG1=0xffffffff ARG2=0xffffffff ARG3=0xffffffff. FW Revision=5.844.01\n"@/AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/IONVMeFamily/IONVMeFamily-470.100.17/IONVMeController.cpp:5320
Failure code:: 0x01769573 00000031
I suspect that the SSD has failed. Can you help? My Macbook is A1534, last 3 digit of serial is F85. Thanks!
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