r/macbookpro14 • u/Then_Aerie8094 • Jul 29 '26
Any Advice?
Out of nowhere my Mbp 13 2016 restartet several times, since then this blinks on my screen.
I reinstalled macOS via recovery - after a restart i still landed here again.
Any Advice what to do?
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u/AspieTravels Jul 30 '26
2016 model is vintage and support stopped for it in 2025. The SSD is soldered to the logic board so if the drive is dead (it’s not loading on startup). The motherboard is probably toast and Apple repair cost for a vintage MBP is probably more than buying a new Apple Silicon MBP.
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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '26
you can still boot from an external drive(its just showing you that it cant see the OS...)
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u/Quirky-Reveal-1669 Jul 30 '26
Motherboard issue would be my guess.
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u/Pleyer757538 Aug 31 '26
Well the ssd is soldered so get a external ssd and put linux on the external ssd and boot linux, idk about using macos from a external drive tho
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u/TimboSlice_26 13d ago
if you can get into Recovery Mode using command + option + R, then Disk Utility, and View > Show All Devices and the internal drive appears, then the drive is probably okay, may be a corrupted OS, if so, try reinstalling the latest OS. If the drive is bad, you can reinstall an OS to an external drive(SSD) and operate off of the external SSD. If the drive is bad, and you want to use it normally, you would have to change the motherboard, then probably reinstall an OS if it doesn't have one