Running Diagnostics but it starts Internet Recovery instead??

I pressed D on startup to run Apple Diagnostics on my 2017 MacBook Air, and now it’s been stuck on “Starting Internet Recovery” for 4 hours with no end in sight. What is going on here? Is this many hours normal? And why didn’t D begin Diagnostic testing?? Help please!

Posted on Jun 27, 2023 12:57 AM

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WheelieNick

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Aug 3, 2023 2:06 PM in response to Bekistan

That's weird. Internet recovery is normal cmd+R and not D.

You might want to reset the SMC and the NVRAM when the MacBook is ready with trying to start over internet recovery

Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

Reset the SMC of your Mac - Apple Support

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