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My mid 2013 MBP shut off randomly yesterday while i was working. The battery status was "Service Soon" so i assumed it was the battery. Ordered one put it in today. Now it lets me log in sometimes but once it accepts my password the login will continue up to about 3/4 of the bar then will shut down. Ive rest the nvram and the smc but neither helped. Could this be a logic board issue or something else?
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Hopefully only your systems settings got messed up and nothing more.
You'll need to boot up in recovery mode using Command & R keys
Reference: Mac startup key combinations
Then going Startup drive control panel and select your internal drive. Lets see if that fixes things. If not try going into Safe Mode.
Did that work?
Sorry guy sounds like the drive is toast. You'll need to get a replacement.
I would recommend you look at:
Or locate a real Apple SSD on Amazon.
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unfortunately it wont boot into recovery mode
i can get into start up manager and thats it.
Then the drive needs a complete reformat and a fresh OS install.
You'll need to create an OS install drive from a second Mac system following this guide:How to create a bootable macOS Sierra installer drive. Once you have it booted up with the installer run Disk Utility to do a security wipe and then reformat the drive and install a fresh copy of the OS. That should fix it if Disk Utility can't see the drive your drive is toast and you'll need a new one.
Ill give this a try and get back to you
I was finally able to boot into single user mode. i run " \sbin\fsck -fy " comes up with a BUNCH of code twards the middle it says IO fail 13. but at the bottom it shows the disk is "OK"
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Did you let it charge up over night? What is the color of the MagSafe cord LED Amber or Green?
by Dan
when it powered up it showed it was at 65% battery. when it died yesterday it was at 100% and plugged in
by Sam McKennon
The light currently is Amber. Tried booting into my External PC boot. and it boots fine...Looking at the SSD huh?
by Sam McKennon
Now lets step back here you've taking the drive out and plugged it into a different system or are you using Target Disk Mode?
Does the LED get to Green? If not wait till it does (3 - 4 hrs) If it still doesn't then you've got something more going on here.
by Dan
Using targeted disk mode. My windows Bootcamp partition is on an external drive. it will boot fine into that. but not from the internal SSD
by Sam McKennon