DiskWarrior and SMART Utility are the main tools. But there are a few tools that the Pros use that actually DO stuff. If that is the case, then there must be SOME kind of utility somewhere that can see these errors? There are plenty of utilities out that that have fancy 3D interfaces, but do absolutely nothing (tech tool etc). So what could be causing this? The only thing I can think of is SATA bus errors that only happen intermittently (on a scale relative to the amount of i/o calls a hard drive does). JUST like a hard drive with lots of bad blocks. They just hang for a while randomly, then come back. Computers with bad cables don't crash, or freeze. I called OWC/MacSales and explained my problem and the representative quickly replied: 'Oh, your HD cable is defective.' I never would have suspected that. I replaced the hard drive with an OWC SSD and, alas, the old MBP still wouldnt work.
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But that's not how things go in the out-of-warranty world of independent Mac repair. JA recent previous order of a replacement internal hard drive for my old MacBook Pro didnt fix the problem. Then I boot it up with Cmd + R, close the lid as usual so that the display goes onto the external monitor, and I wipe the hard drive. So I take it, hook it up to a Dell docking station with external mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc, and back it up. BestBuy will give us 175 as trade-in value, but needs to be reset. I know the official way to diagnose a problem is to start replacing parts until the computer is fixed, and that last part was your problem. Girlfriends Macbook Pro 13' 2017s display stopped working. I know all about Apple service procedure. because, there's no way to directly confirm the cable is the problem. I never really know if it's going to fix the problem or not though. New Original A1708 WiFi Antenna Cable For Macbook Pro Retina 13" A2159 2016 2017 2019 Years. But I've replaced a lot of these drive cables and I'm doing another one tomorrow. You might think "come on, how often does a simple cable really go bad?" Well, I've never had a traditional desktop style SATA cable go bad. This is a much harder problem to diagnose, because it generally acts just like a system with a failing hard drive, but the drive will pass a real SMART test with flying colors. That's the little flat ribbon cable that connects the hard drive to the logic board. So unlike the Genius bar, I can quickly diagnose a bad hard drive without having to infer the problem through symptoms.īut one problem that I've noticed really being on the rise lately, is a failing hard drive cable in MacBook Pros. Apple has identified a specific population of MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports) units requiring both solid state drives and the main logic board to be replaced when either has a. While Apple's own tools (hardware test, Disk Utility) do almost nothing to positively confirm a failing hard drive, there are several other tools (SoftRaid, SMART Utility) that can read the SMART data and tell you for sure that a drive is failing. By far the most common thing I do is replace failing hard drives. I've been fixing Macs professionally (not through Apple) for well over a decade now.
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