Adventures in troubleshooting: Replacing a MacBook Air's faulty SSD<article>
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The first time my MacBook Air crashed on wake, I didn’t think much of it.</p><p>
But after about the fourth or fifth time within a couple weeks, I started getting concerned. Not only did it seem to crash a goodly fraction of the time I woke it up (sometimes with a black screen, sometimes with a spinning beachball, other times with a frozen login box), but on first restart it started giving me
the dreaded folder with a blinking question mark.</p><p>
Not good.</p><p>
I tried Apple’s suggestions for combatting that issue: resetting
the NVRAM—where your Mac stores many of its settings when it’s off—and the
System Management Controller (SMC), but no solution ever seemed to take. It might offer a day or two’s worth of respite, but just as often it was right back to the same old problem. I repaired my disk—and my disk permissions—and ran the meager diagnostics accessible via the
Apple Hardware Test. Everything claimed the system was working fine.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2096800/adventures-in-troubleshooting-replacing-a-macbook-airs-faulty-ssd.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Adventures in troubleshooting: Replacing a MacBook Air's faulty SSD
