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mateus

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Sep 30, 2007
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Fitted a new Western Digital Black SN750 in a 2015 MacBook Pro and performed a fresh install of Monterey via the online macOS recovery.

Mac boots from power off within a few seconds, no errors, performs perfectly, and powers down fine too. But, if a restart is performed, the Mac hangs on the POST.

Screen is black (but LCD back light is on), no errors, no sounds, no logo. Verbose boot mode shows the macOS shuts down fine but it doesn’t seem to be getting past the POST on restart, there's nothing on screen to indicate why.

Conducting a PRAM reset seems to fail because nothing happens. SMC reset hasn’t helped. Tried another clean reinstall of Monterey too.

Fitting the old Samsung drive or the original Apple drive restores the ability to restart. So it seems to be the SN750 that’s causing the problem.

Any ideas why?
 

mateus

macrumors regular
Original poster
Sep 30, 2007
101
2
Fixed! Turned out to be a problem with the old NVMe adapter. Just fitted a new Sintech adapter and the Mac can now restarts as it should, and PRAM resets are working again too.
 
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