An very unique situation with my MacBook Pro - IR cable, Logic, SSD
Hey guys,
So my MacBook Pro unibody 2012 13'' was working perfectly just one day ago. I have put in a new SSD drive for 2 months now, worked perfect. Also installed 8 GB RAM also worked nice for 3-4 days. Then suddenly yesterday everything crashed I got both I a panic (CPU 2 caller) & it keeps rebooting & refreshing in a cycle (can't insert image here, I have a photo).
Nothing was responsive, the recovery cmd -R etc was very buggy. I tried booting my SSD external with a SATA USB adapter, but still very slow and didn't boot.
I then used my brothers MacBook to connect my SSD with and the same SATA to USB adapter and it worked perfectly! I could also use it as a startup device for my system and everything worked perfectly (thank God my data was intact). So I’ve ruled out that my SSD was the troublemaker here!
After some EHBO repairing, I managed to get my system to recognize my SSD externally with the SATA to USB adapter (which I am using now). However when I put my SSD back the system, it get's recognized and boots up, but not everything is working perfectly: Spotlight doesn't search, apps crash, and the system is very slow.
So this is the strange situation I haven't encountered yet online. My SSD works with USB SATA adapter, and the internal SATA connection it also boots but has a lot errors, it's basically not working normally.
I found on the internet some possible causes:
- Third party RAM. However when I install my old MAC ram I still get the harddrive error.
- Bad SATA cable - pretty common - however people with bad cables couldn't get their MacBook to recognize the internal HDD/SSD or not boot it. However mine boots and even starts Sierra, but everything is working weirdly. Spotlight doesn't find anything, google drive gives me an error, very slow.
- It could be my Logic board, but I read that if USB to SATA works your logic board is probably fine.
The only thing I can think of is that my SATA cable is partly damaged, but I cannot see how it manages to boot my SSD internally every time & recognize it.
Is this a good question?