El Capitan has COMPLETELY BRICKED my machine.

[Xiaoluobo]

Brand new 2015 Macbook Air 13 inch stock.

Normal usage when downloading. Download finishes. Click install. Says will restart in 30 seconds. Screen goes blank 15 seconds early. Thought it was normal. Nothing happens. Wait 5 minutes. Nothing happens. Try to power on the machine. Nothing happens. Reset the SMC then try to power on. Nothing happens.

It's dead. Anything else I can do?

 

[mariusignorello]

Reboot into recovery (CMD + R) and click Reinstall OS X.

 

[Mac... nificent]

Says will restart in 30 seconds.

Ignore what it says. Ours said 7 minutes but actually took over an hour to configure/install.

 

[T5BRICK]

If pressing the power button doesn't turn to computer on, something else is wrong. OS X didn't break anything that wasn't already broken.

Take it in to Apple and utilize your warranty.

 

[simon lefisch]

Brand new 2015 Macbook Air 13 inch stock.

Normal usage when downloading. Download finishes. Click install. Says will restart in 30 seconds. Screen goes blank 15 seconds early. Thought it was normal. Nothing happens. Wait 5 minutes. Nothing happens. Try to power on the machine. Nothing happens. Reset the SMC then try to power on. Nothing happens.

It's dead. Anything else I can do?

Can you boot into recovery?

 

[garirry]

If you can boot into the machine, reinstall OS X and (maybe) try again. If you can't, then it's not El Cap's fault, it's probably your computer. Charge it, reset PRAM/SMC again, or maybe bring it to the AS if you can't do anything. When installing Mavericks, my hard drive sorta broke, while I blamed on Mavericks, it turned out to be just my hard drive that was dying.

 

[RabidMacFan]

Plug the power cable in and try again

 

[Xiaoluobo]

Thanks for the help all. Strangest thing happened...around 30 mins after my first post, I hit the power button again on a whim, and lo and behold, it boots right up like nothing happened. I was even still in the install El Capitan screen. So I exited out of everything, deleted the downloaded image, restarted, redownloaded, then installed without a hitch.

Very, very strange. I still don't know what happened.

 

[philipk]

If you can boot into the machine, reinstall OS X and (maybe) try again. If you can't, then it's not El Cap's fault, it's probably your computer. Charge it, reset PRAM/SMC again, or maybe bring it to the AS if you can't do anything. When installing Mavericks, my hard drive sorta broke, while I blamed on Mavericks, it turned out to be just my hard drive that was dying.

(Hate to say it, but you are probably right.

My 2009 MacBook Pro was on its last legs. I suspected hard disk problem. Since it didn't work will anyways, I tried the update. Bricked machine. Disk utility shows no apps, videos, files, etc. Only other on hard drive.)

Ignore

 

[philipk]

Went into terminal and the date was wrong (2000). Set date and doing clean install. It appears to be updating.