![]() ![]() ![]() One way to extend the life of an old iPod (or enhance your current model) is to turn it into a maintenance tool. Since an iPod can function as a hard drive, it can do things that other hard drives can do. An iPod may not be able to compete with a dedicated, automated backup system, but it’s a great use for old hardware. The search on 2011’s and SSD drives leads me to believe that cable may be the problem which makes a lot of sense.Depending on your iPod model, you may have room for only a handful of files-or you may have room for many gigabytes of photos, music, and videos. I’m pretty sure the clean install helped as it restarted 20 times easily after I finished. When they opened it up, same white screen! They’ll bring it back today and I’m planning on opening it up to see if possibly one or more cables is pinched and causing some of the troubles. After the reinstall, which took forever and stopped several times, and then doing the same recent update which was not on the usb install, it worked great- until I turned it off and closed it up and my neighbor took it home. I then backed it up to an external hard drive, wiped the current hard drive using target disk mode with another MBP also running High Sierra (I had to install the update to that computer first as disk utility had a glitch before the recent update), and then made a usb boot disk of High Sierra (all very time consuming). I got it working enough to get everything off of it by using the fsck and after “volume appears to be ok”, typing “reboot” (this was the only way to get it to boot up normally as none of the other key prompts would work). I’ve spent the last 2 days troubleshooting my neighbor’s MBP late 2011 with the same problem after they had it in the repair shop 3 times for $500. I'm noticing that the computer is getting unusually hot, roughly where the fans are (i.e. Booting over Firewire from another computer in Target Disk Mode: No difference. What in God's name is going on here?Īlso tried: Apple Hardware Test, extended testing: No trouble found. I have tried: Booting in Safe Mode (no indication that that took effect), zapping the PRAM (seven reboots in a row to be sure), resetting the PMU (twice), Verbose mode (which works, until it goes to the white screen of death), Single User Mode (which works just fine, but all I know to do from there is to fsck the disk, which returns no errors), unplugging the battery for 30 seconds or so, resetting the RAM in its slot, and, as I said, repeatedly attempting to boot from an emergency drive. ![]() When I boot to my Protogo, it shows a line of random colors in the upper portion of the screen for a second before it goes to the white screen. When I went to Recovery or Internet Recovery (after it downloaded the installer), it would go to a horrible blue screen, that looked like some kind of awful graphics error-it hurt my eyes. Once it immediately turned itself back on after I forced to turn off by holding the Power button for six seconds. However, last night it would sometimes do that, and sometimes go to the white screen and then shut down, and sometimes spontaneously reboot, over and over. It will show the Apple logo and the loading bar, then go to an all-white screen and stay there. Not only to the new internal drive, but to the Protogo, or to the original drive, or to the Recovery partition, or to Internet Recovery. Everything worked fine I installed the drive, booted with a Techtool Protogo USB stick with the High Sierra installer on it, formatted the disk with Disk Utility, installed High Sierra onto it, waited for it to reboot, plugged the old drive in via a Universal Drive Adapter, and restored all the data using the Migration Assistant built into the initial startup sequence. The original HDD was drastically slowing down and giving SMART errors, so I replaced it with a (somewhat smaller, but still big enough for all the data with room to spare) SDD. I was doing a routine hard drive replacement. Resetting PRAM, PMU, Safe Mode, and booting from external drives all have the same result. Tl dr No matter what I do, I get a white screen on startup after the Apple logo. ![]()
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