There are few times that users of bitten apple products have been able to experience a situation in which after starting their MacBook Pro computer they have seen how the screen it will be totally black and they couldn't do anything to prevent it. Many of them have put their hands to their heads thinking that a failure of that style can be related directly with a possible hardware failure.
However, in some cases it is not a failure of the hardware of the computer but it is entirely attributed to a software problem that can be easily solved. This is the case that concerns us in this article, since we are going to indicate the steps you must follow in case the Your MacBook Pro's screen goes completely black during startup.
There are already enough users who have experienced this situation with their laptops and that is why in this article we are going to share with you the data that are known regarding possible solutions if it is a software problem.
The first thing to try is to try to restart the system management controller (SMC). On other occasions, this is the solution that has been found to failures related to how the fans work, problems to enter sleep or display. To do this, in any MacBook Pro or MacBook Air in which the battery cannot be removed, what should be done is:
- Turn off the MacBook either the Pro or the Air.
- Connect it to the electrical current using the MagSafe adapter.
- Now we press and hold the keys Shift + Option + Control + Power Button for several seconds.
- We release all the keys at the same time and start later as usual.
However, there are users who after doing the above continued to have the same problem giving a different solution that has consisted of knowing the sequence of keys that exists in all MacBook to be able to enter the sleep states or turn off the system. Oddly enough, with these key combinations the system goes out of the black screen. The steps to follow are:
- Press the on-off key once to bring up the dialog box showing us the options for Restart, Sleep, Cancel, and Shutdown.
- Now we press the key «S» to put the MacBook to sleep. Later we continuously press the power button to cut power to the hard drive.
- After 15 seconds we press the power button again to start the computer.
If you are in one of these situations and have found a new way to get the MacBook out of its black screen, share it with us all.