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Bad RAM or SSD?

Hi Everyone,

Ok so my mid 2014 13” retina macbook pro had that crazy screen issue and then crashed, now the dreaded 3 beeps. The very strange thing is when it first crashed I tried to reboot it, which it did, then crashed pretty much immediately with a weird screen. I think it rebooted one more time and crashed even quicker. Then when I tried to reboot it would give me either one beep OR it would make a chime but no screen action. I think that happened maybe three times. I then tried all the different key configurations, nothing. I cleaned up the inside of the laptop, nothing. I used a hairdryer, nothing. I then baked the logic board, nothing. All the same three beeps break three beeps. Dos not respond to anything.

I am not too concerned apart from getting a few things off of the SSD. Now I then put my SSD into my partners 15” mid 2015 retina, I hear the chime but then just a blank screen? Also it needs to be plugged in to power to work or it just tells me the batt is dead (which it isn’t).

Once I put back in the original SSD bank into the 15” it works perfectly again….could this mean I actually have an SSD issue with my 13”?

Thanks,

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“ I then baked the logic board, nothing “ What??? What did you do ?

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It's a thing. Reworking the solder.

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It is up to you, of course, but after 35 years working with computer hardware I wouldn't dream of doing this.

Is this the model with soldered in RAM, by the way?

Have you tried connecting SSD to an external USB to test?

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Ya soldered in. I understand that. This technique has worked for me twice before with a mac and xbox. Anyway, putting my SSD into the other laptop what should I expect? Could my SSD be corrupt? Anyway to test this? Thanks

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If your SSD is corrupt, you can try removing it and then inserting it into another computer. You can then attempt to repair the drive, etc.

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Sadly the three beeps is a RAM error as you can see here: About Mac startup tones

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Hi Dan. Thanks yeah. I guess my main question now is the install of my SSD in another Mac to recover files. Any advice in this?

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I use OWC - Envoy Pro SSD case. You might want to look on eBay or Amazon for a unit as well. Often times once someone uses it they turn around and sell it.

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Cool thanks. I was aware of this unit and will most likely order one, just where I am it will take a while to arrive and wondered how putting my SSD in another MacBook would work out as work wise getting those files ASAP would be great. I should probably try booting in recovery mode and see if I can access it.

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If you have access to a second Mac system which you can connect your system to via Target Disk Mode that might work here.

References:

● Mac startup key combinations

● How to use target disk mode to move files to another computer

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Thanks a lot mate!

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