I just got this Mac from my grandma because she said it wasn’t working. It boots and lets me go into recovery mode but crashes in a similar way whenever a loading bar starts. I’ve tried booting every different way and cleared nvram. I didn’t see any clearly visible damage on the logic board, and I’m willing to try any ideas as long as I can keep the price of fixing this under $100.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•7 months ago

    This is either a bug with the graphics driver (easy to fix) or a hardware fault with the graphics chip (new laptop time).

    Check to see if the graphical corruption only happens in macOS using something like a Linux live USB. If it’s still there, it’s a hardware problem.

    If it goes away, back up her information using Time Machine and reinstall macOS.

    • Unimalion OP
      2•7 months ago

      I’ll try booting it from a live USB but I’m not very hopeful given how it also freezes in recovery and safe mode. Thank you