Hey all I have a MacBook Pro 2016 model with 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports.
My LCD cracked and I am unable to see anything on it. Therefore I bought myself a thunderbolt to HDMI/USB3.0/USB2.0 dongle for it so that I could see the screen on my TV.
Everything worked great. I did the ⌘+R when starting the laptop and heard a faint chime before releasing the 2 keys and was greeted with the recovery menu.
The first time coming to this menu I just did the Reinstall macOS Big Sur. Took 2 hours but everything did re-install BUT did not seem to delete my personal user and my files. So reading up more on how to wipe the HD I came across an article stating to use the Disk Utility to format the drive and remove the volumes.
I used the "-" button one each of my 2 listings under the Internal section. Deleted those just fine. Now this is where I messed up. As the article I was reading said to exit out of Disk Utility and go back to the main menu and choose to re-install. However, the screen on my tv did not show any outer edges enough for me to actually see the tool menu so I just used the mouse and clicked in the area where they were. I chose something and it shut down the laptop. I honestly have no idea what I chose... I was going for exit disk utility's but I do not think I got that.
Upon powering it back up I am now presented with a **louder chime** than the one I first encountered with doing the recovery and what I Think is a white screen (of death?) that it just sits on now. I have no idea what is on this screen or if it's asking me to do something or to type something! I've tried typing in my password and hitting enter thinking it may be asking for that before it proceeds but again, nothing happens.
I then tried creating a bootable USB that has the Moja dmg on it. Using a windows pc and TransMac I did the "save image to disk" option when right-clicking on my USB drive. All of that went well and I proceeded back to the laptop.
I placed the USB into one of the 3 that are on the dongle. Holding down the Options button and hitting the power button. Like I said above, It does a loud chime and its a white screen again. No video signal to the TV via HDMI. Nothing. I tried just hitting enter hoping it already had the USB drive selected. I waited a few minutes and nothing changed. I powered it up again and pushed the right arrow key in case the highlighted one was the mac internal HD and again hit enter and waiting a few minutes. Still nothing.
As a last resort I used my USB-C cable from my Dell 49" widescreen monitor to the thunderbolt on the laptop hoping that would show me something but alas it does not. Same issue as the HDMI.
I have also tried holding the following key combos on startup without any luck:
I've also tried closing the lid while its on that what I presume to be the white screen to see if it defaults the main screen to the external screen and it does not seem to do so. Still has no signal.
At times while I am on that white screen I hold down the power button to force turn it off and sometimes it takes a few seconds for the laptop to go off but other times it takes over ~1 minute.
Any help would be great at this point! Thanks!
NOTE THAT THE ABOVE IMAGES ARE NOT FROM MY MACBOOK. JUST THERE FOR VISUALS.
My LCD cracked and I am unable to see anything on it. Therefore I bought myself a thunderbolt to HDMI/USB3.0/USB2.0 dongle for it so that I could see the screen on my TV.
Everything worked great. I did the ⌘+R when starting the laptop and heard a faint chime before releasing the 2 keys and was greeted with the recovery menu.
The first time coming to this menu I just did the Reinstall macOS Big Sur. Took 2 hours but everything did re-install BUT did not seem to delete my personal user and my files. So reading up more on how to wipe the HD I came across an article stating to use the Disk Utility to format the drive and remove the volumes.
I used the "-" button one each of my 2 listings under the Internal section. Deleted those just fine. Now this is where I messed up. As the article I was reading said to exit out of Disk Utility and go back to the main menu and choose to re-install. However, the screen on my tv did not show any outer edges enough for me to actually see the tool menu so I just used the mouse and clicked in the area where they were. I chose something and it shut down the laptop. I honestly have no idea what I chose... I was going for exit disk utility's but I do not think I got that.
Upon powering it back up I am now presented with a **louder chime** than the one I first encountered with doing the recovery and what I Think is a white screen (of death?) that it just sits on now. I have no idea what is on this screen or if it's asking me to do something or to type something! I've tried typing in my password and hitting enter thinking it may be asking for that before it proceeds but again, nothing happens.
I then tried creating a bootable USB that has the Moja dmg on it. Using a windows pc and TransMac I did the "save image to disk" option when right-clicking on my USB drive. All of that went well and I proceeded back to the laptop.
I placed the USB into one of the 3 that are on the dongle. Holding down the Options button and hitting the power button. Like I said above, It does a loud chime and its a white screen again. No video signal to the TV via HDMI. Nothing. I tried just hitting enter hoping it already had the USB drive selected. I waited a few minutes and nothing changed. I powered it up again and pushed the right arrow key in case the highlighted one was the mac internal HD and again hit enter and waiting a few minutes. Still nothing.
As a last resort I used my USB-C cable from my Dell 49" widescreen monitor to the thunderbolt on the laptop hoping that would show me something but alas it does not. Same issue as the HDMI.
I have also tried holding the following key combos on startup without any luck:
I've also tried closing the lid while its on that what I presume to be the white screen to see if it defaults the main screen to the external screen and it does not seem to do so. Still has no signal.
At times while I am on that white screen I hold down the power button to force turn it off and sometimes it takes a few seconds for the laptop to go off but other times it takes over ~1 minute.
Any help would be great at this point! Thanks!
NOTE THAT THE ABOVE IMAGES ARE NOT FROM MY MACBOOK. JUST THERE FOR VISUALS.
