drb5
Prominent Member
Can anyone help me please?
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro, which I bought from Apple as a refurbished unit back in 2013, so I am the only owner since then.
I hardly ever use it now, but it's handy for working from home, so I attempted to start it up and the following is what happens..
- I get the start up tone and a grey screen which flickers a bit
- it then turns black and doesn't do anything more
- plugged in a monitor and the screen briefly shows a grey box that I can select the language then goes black again
- if I remove the wire for monitor it shows the grey box again for a split second and goes black again
- if it works well enough I can select a language, press return it will then show a password reset screen(provided of course that I continue plugging in and removing lead
I have tried removing the rear casing, disconnecting the battery and hard drive, also tried resetting pram etc, but nothing has so far worked.
Is there any way I can reset/erase the laptop without it going into recovery mode, as I simply can't see the screen enough to complete that kind of task?
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro, which I bought from Apple as a refurbished unit back in 2013, so I am the only owner since then.
I hardly ever use it now, but it's handy for working from home, so I attempted to start it up and the following is what happens..
- I get the start up tone and a grey screen which flickers a bit
- it then turns black and doesn't do anything more
- plugged in a monitor and the screen briefly shows a grey box that I can select the language then goes black again
- if I remove the wire for monitor it shows the grey box again for a split second and goes black again
- if it works well enough I can select a language, press return it will then show a password reset screen(provided of course that I continue plugging in and removing lead
I have tried removing the rear casing, disconnecting the battery and hard drive, also tried resetting pram etc, but nothing has so far worked.
Is there any way I can reset/erase the laptop without it going into recovery mode, as I simply can't see the screen enough to complete that kind of task?