MacBook help! Repeating restart/poweroff

[visualizeperfection]

I would guess the main issue is the piece of shit is 13 years old.

HT :

I generally use the onboard computer that came factory with my Bugatti, but when I’m in my fourth vacation home I use the 2012 MacBook Schmoe that has been been more dutiful than ESfitness’ Parole Officer.

Luck of the draw perhaps. I don’t generally keep up on technology, for the smaller guys. Hate to support companies like Apple, but they make a great product that keeps working.

Perhaps ESfitness used Narcan to pep it up, to no avail.

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

Far as I know it was completely rebuilt & upgraded, as it was the last year before a troublesome design change... Or something. I dunno (obviously), but this year is desirable. And aside from some minimal wear on the bottom, it looks flawless.

Anyways...

Only had it a few months, there's nothing saved on the hard drive that I would care about losing. Do you mean what the system? And reinstall the OS? It came with a new OS already installed I am completely unfamiliar with Mac OS's what I have to purchase an OS? Like windows or something? Didn't come with any discs or any operating system USBs or anything or any recovery stuff whatsoever. Just laptop and latest Mac OS installed.

*Speaking of discs, there is no optical drive.



*** The odd thing is I could get it to start up and work so long as I was holding down the escape control and option buttons all at the same time. And so long as I was holding those buttons down everything on the computer worked.

Soon as my finger came off one of those buttons for a second I would get that "are you sure you want to shut down" pop up, with the shutdown already highlighted and didn't matter if I could click on cancel restart or the sleep buttons instead.

Doing some reading last night I came across some issues where it was the keyboard and some moisture or something got into some button and created a shortcut to get that pop up to pop up but when they used a USB (or Bluetooth ??) keyboard connected to the laptop they could side step the issue.   

It happened after 11:00 last night so Walmart was already closed so I couldn't pick up any of that compressed air PC duster shit. Maybe that would have helped Who knows...

.. I appreciate the responses though from everybody. Should be getting home in about 10 or 15 minutes to try and turn it on and see if there's any improvement.

Did you not hear what the fuck I said?   Your computer prob has liquid damage...and don't buy into that rebuilt and refurbished shit.  All they do is clean out the insides, scrape off and apply new thermopaste to the CPU and run a system diagnostics and that's really it.  Liquid damage pretty much kills a system because there is no way to fix it other than replace the entire motherboard which would defeat the purpose of selling it for profit. 


BTW, buying a MacBook from 2011 is just plain stupid...you can get away with it on a regular computer because you there are many different operating systems you can use with it.   MacBook only has one OS and you can't update