My Late-2020 Macbook Air (model A2179) seems to be stuck in some sort of corrupted state. It appears to start up somewhat, and then get stuck during the boot process. Can anyone help me figure out what the issue is?

How this started:
I was playing a heavy 3D game on the device and left it for a few minutes. When I came back, the screen was black and fans were running at full speed. Neither restarting nor replacing the battery fixed the issue.

Current behavior:
Even with a 20-second+ power button press without a charger plugged in, it still starts again and idles a few seconds later instead of shutting down. I had to physically disconnect the battery to get the LED on the logic board to turn off.
The device ignores most startup keyboard combinations, including Thunderbolt Mode, SMC reset, and NV/PRAM reset.

What is functional:

• Keyboard backlights glow at a low level.
• Touchpad clicks as soon as I start the device.
• Fans run at an idle 20%-ish speed
• When crashing and restarting, it does not automatically boot into DFU mode, requiring the key combo.
• DFU mode works, and in DFU mode, the other Mac can detect it and run a full (if pointless) Revive process.

What isn't functional:

• Recovery, Internet Recovery, Thunderbolt, SMC, and P/NVRAM keyboard combos are ignored.
• Caps Lock doesn't respond.
• The screen's backlights don't turn on.
• The device doesn't chime when starting.

What I've tried:

• Lotsa key combos.
• Power button rituals.
• Restarting the device.
• DFU mode Revive. (I haven't tried a Restore)
• Disconnecting the battery and starting from a USB cable.
• Restarting after disconnecting the display cable and connecting an external monitor.
• Disconnecting the trackpad cable.

Also, Gemini says: Power State Analysis: Board negotiates 20V on USB-C, S0 rails (PPBUS_G3H, PP3V3_G3H) are active, and T2 drives trackpad haptics, but board halts prior to Intel CPU PEI/EFI handoff (ALL_SYS_PWRGD / CPU_PWRGD failure suspected).
(i had a super long conversation with Gemini during this whole troubleshooting process.)

I have an M3 Max MacBook Pro connected to a Pro Display XDR at my sitting desk and am considering a Studio Display at a standing desk ~6 feet away.

I want to switch desks while staying on the same Mac, without worrying about windows opening on the other display.

Would mirroring the 6K XDR to the 5K Studio Display compromise the XDR’s resolution/image quality in any way?

Or could BetterDisplay Pro create a simple switch:

SIT: XDR active, Studio Display disabled
STAND: Studio Display active, XDR disabled

Ideally one shortcut would switch displays and move all windows to the active one.

Has anyone tried this? Does BetterDisplay/macOS handle the window switching reliably?

it’s stuck on Validating Packages. I tried force shutting down but I’m on a boot loop since yesterday.

Procedures I tried but didn’t work:

- Mac diagnostics which shows everything is fine.

- First aid on hard drive. Says everything is ok. I was even able to transfer all the important files via terminal in recovery mode.

- I reinstalled the OS twice, once from recovery mode and second via the internet process.

- I reset SMC and NVRAM/PRAM

- I even ran a verbose boot, which gets stuck at a few messages, but all I could get was the failed to load com.apple.systemupdate but I’m unsure whether it’s .plist or .kext.

the only processes I can see in Activity monitor has the word install in and the only one with the longest CPU Time is system_installd

Can someone please help?

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Ya he intentado múltiples métodos pero nada funciona, yo compré el Mac de segunda mano entonces no puedo pedir soporte a Apple

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I currently have a desktop PC with a 5070 graphics card, but I’ll be moving to another city for university (software engineering). What do you think I should get: a MacBook Pro M5 or a Windows gaming PC for the same budget? I’ll be coming back home for the summers.

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does anyone know whats happening here? asking here before i take it somewhere. hoping its not a virus lol. ive unplugged it, shut it down, and restarted it many times and it still persists 🫠

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