MacBook Air wont boot up

My MacBook Air (2017, 13in) won’t turn on and is not showing any signs of life. My MagSafe charger is not displaying its orange/green light, and the screen of the MacBook is black.


Ive tried booting it up, resetting the SMC, NVRAM/PRAM, booting in Safe Mode, and none have worked. About two weeks ago I managed to turn it on (in safe mode) after trying the all of the above. I checked Disk Utility and it seemed that there was some task running that would throttle the CPU, and then the MacBook would crash again.


Since then I have not been able to get the MacBook on again. I’m looking to upgrade to a newer device but I need to get everything I can off of the device before that. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting the MacBook on again, or as a last resort, transferring everything off of it. I thought about removing the ssd but I’m not sure if that would work.


Thanks

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Jun 4, 2025 03:49 PM

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