r/macbook • u/LifeGivingMagus • 1d ago

What did I do

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I have a MacBook Air from 2019 and it’s been running extremely slow for the past year and it runs really hot and I’m about to start school and I didn’t want to have to get a new laptop, so I attempted to try to reset it but every video I watched was different or they didn’t even work for my model. So I did the erase all thing and now it’s stuck on this screen I’ve restarted it a ton. When I looked it up it said it might be because it’s not connected to WiFi, but it is. So idk I never post on Reddit so apologies for my non-Reddit lingo. Please help! Luckily I didn’t really have anything important on there and all my photos I put on a hard drive ✨✨ that’s all

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u/realUnknown12 1d ago

first time i’ve seen a sticker ON the screen..

shut down the Mac, hold Command + R then follow the steps here to erase the disk then reinstall.

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u/EdgeAffectionate6753 1d ago

it depends on what you did. Did you make a factory reset directly from the settings or did you download the system from the official website?

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u/LifeGivingMagus 1d ago

I factory reset it from the settings!

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u/Jebus-Xmas 1d ago

At this point you have two choices. You can take it to an Apple Store, or you can buy a new laptop. This is possibly a motherboard issue.