![]() ![]() After this, you can plug back in your hard drive and reboot your computer. Now, once you've managed to boot, the FIRST thing you have to do is go to the Startup Manager and set the firmware to boot off your whatever startup medium is (otherwise, upon reboot you'll be in the same S*ITuation). voilá! There you get your little spinning animated icon and, eventually, the Apple's apple the startup disk will boot and there you are anew to life. Then, and only then, if there is NO hard drive where to try to boot off, the firmware is programmed to look for some other medium: USB stick, external DVD, network. Believe me: with the right screwdriver, it's very easy to do and even you can do it. ![]() How can you wake it up from this coma? Simple: remove the back cover and disconnect the hard drive. The Apple engineers are so smart!!īut it's actually not dead: neither your motherboard nor your drive is dead. BUT, when the actual boot setting is "hard drive" and, for whatever reason, the data is corrupted or something is wrong with the boot sector, then the computer will NOT try to find any alternative device, or a network, where to boot off: it will keep forever trying to boot off the hard drive, and thus you get the dreaded white screen of death. When the actual boot setting is any other than the hard drive, then, at boot time, the firmware will look for the instructed medium to boot off, and if for whatever reason it doesn't find it, then it will try to boot off the hard drive as a "last resource". This option can be set in the OS's Startup Manager. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but, as far as I've guessed and investigated, it works like this: Your MacBook Air's firmware (probably also any other MacBook system, but I can't be sure about that) is always instructed to try to, in the first place, boot off certain piece of hardware: be it the hard disk, an external DVD unit, the installed USB stick, or a network boot server. Probably you can solve the problem by yourself, spending only a few -very well invested- dollars in a pentalobed or a Phillips #00 screwdriver, plus maybe a Torx T5 one. don't panic! And, unless still under guarantee, don't take your computer to an Apple center for them to steal you yet more money by making you pay for a new logic board and/or a new hard drive. I have good news for you: if you ever get the white screen of death. *ExpressKeys™ support coming later in 2022.Well, folks: I finally found out what went wrong, and I'll try to explain it as well as my ignorance of Apple hardware, OS-X software, and firmware, and computers in general, allows me.īut first things first. ![]() The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License. Pen must be used with the tablet to function with Chrome OS. Android, Chromebook, and the Works With Chromebook badge are trademarks of Google LLC. Google is not responsible for the operation of this product or its compliance with safety requirements. This product works with devices capable of running the latest version of Chrome OS and has been certified to meet Google's compatibility standards. And to make sure you’re always able to get the most out of every project, downloadable creative and education software is available, too. Simple to setup and with natural pressure sensitivity, there’s nothing holding your creativity back. Explore new ways of getting creative, with downloadable software and natural-feel precision pen. Wacom Intuos* also Works With Chromebook. ![]()
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