What the fuck would cause my macbook to spontaneously die during sleep mode?

What the fuck would cause my macbook to spontaneously die during sleep mode?

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Let me guess: High Sierra?

High Sierra bug. It's frustrating af.

macOS has slowly been going to shit for years now.

So you can buy a newer model dumb goy

I guess? I don't know, it was up to date.

I woke up to the thing making a loud clicking noise that I thought sounded like it was coming from the disc drive and when I opened it the keyboard and screen were lit up but just an unresponsive black screen. So I force shut it down.
Now when I boot it up, it's still making that clicking noise but it just stays on a white screen.
Is my hard drive fucked?

Probably, yes. Assuming it's a mechanical hard drive of course. If it is, then your mac is fairly old and so would your HDD be, which makes sense that it failed.

Get an SSD, enjoy your upgrade.

bring an Apple product may do that. The machine is just reminding you how retarded you are.

Is there any way or chance to recover anything? There's a couple files that are important to me but I don't have any backups.

Low battery

But it was plugged in

>Mac
>Not running Fedora, or other GNU
Found your problems

>What the fuck would cause my macbook to spontaneously die during sleep mode?
planned obsolescence

Try resetting SMC and NVRAM both then...
During boot:
Press and hold the Command key and R while powering on to boot into “online recovery” mode, and you can use disk utility to inspect the drive. There’s a toggle to turn on “show all devices” in order to see the drive object, initially it shows sub tree partitions only.
You can try first aid, it’ll probably fail.
You can close disk utility and from the app menu you can launch a terminal with root privileges that’s very useful.
Shutdown boot again:
Hold alt while booting to boot into other OS. You can use a USB of Linux to scan your hard drive with badblocks, to physically scan sectors, you might be able to rescue data with rsync, and if it’s a MacBook Pro from about 2011ish, with those spinning drives, you can replace the hard drive with just a regular small Phillips screw driver

A high exposure to environmental soy.

>What the fuck would cause my macbook to spontaneously die
buying a macbook in the first place

I dont know what a macbook is or does, sorry

I'm glad I haven't updated from Sierra yet. At this rate, I probably won't ever.

>TFW OSX will never be as good as Snow Leopard ever again.

Install a USB with Ubuntu on it, boot into live USB mode, mount the hard drive and your second drive, and transfer anything with rsync.
Use a terminal for this part 100% and type
rsync -av /path/to/mountedpartition/ /path/to/mountedexternal/“backup of macbook”
Rsync copies your files but it collects a record of all the files to copy, and cross references it when you run it so it so if it fails to get something, and you run the same command again, it quickly attempts to copy just the missing files only, and will read an error on any files it can’t get every time, if it can’t get it twice, it won’t get it though.

To avoid confusion, don’t install Ubuntu, I mean insert a USB with Ubuntu installation media on it.
If you can get the backplate off, the hard drive is easy to access. Figure it out.
Easiest way to do everything is to leave it (more spinning the disk more damage), get a new ssd, and a sata to USB cable online or from a repair shop or some shit. Install the SSD/HDD, use online recovery to install MacOS high Sierra clean on it. Connect your old drive to the MacBook with the sata to USB cable, and you mount it and run rsync on MacOS. It only runs rsync in a full install live environment tho, the recovery and single user mode don’t have rsync...

Nah, I get what you mean. Thanks for the info. I just have to buy an external hard drive now

OPs problem has nothing to do with High Sierra. HDD failure can happen with any OS

>no backups
>important files

Consider this a learning experience. No matter what OS you use or what computer sudden data loss is always a possibility. Keep backups of your shit. MacOS makes it seamless with iCloud documents. Not to mention Dropbox, Google Drive, Time Machine, a fucking USB stick or SD card etc. Always keep backups.

If the HDD failed then the Macbook would have said "HDD not found" and shown a picture of a frowning mac at the boot screen.
OP said it died, blank screen.

>If the HDD failed then the Macbook would have said "HDD not found" and shown a picture of a frowning mac at the boot screen.
Huh, really?
What's happening for me is that when I try to boot it, it just stays on a blank white screen and makes a bunch of scary whirring noises that sounds like it's coming from the disc drive (for whatever reason) but the problem is the disc drive is also really close to the hard drive so it's hard to tell. But the thing is, I can also hear the sound of the hard drive reading stuff that it has always made during normal operation

If the HDD/SSD was trashed then you'd get this screen on boot. (It's not sad mac any more, I forgot they changed it)
What you have sounds like the firmware got skullfucked or something.

I would try (in this order)
1. Reseting the PRAM/NVRAM. Do this by holding Command-Option-p-r on boot.
2. Resetting the SMC. Do this by shutting the Macbook down and then holding Shift+Control+Option and the Power button for about 10 seconds.
3. If the Macbook still doesn't boot, hold Command-Option-R to enter internet recovery mode while turning on. This will give you the option to reinstall Mac OSX.

Optionally, you can hold Command-Option-D on boot to enter a diagnostics mode and try check if you had a hardware failure.

Oh weird. Try disconnecting it or opening the disc drives chassis to see if stuff is inside.
Honestly if you get the bottom off and watch and look closely inside while the system runs its easier to tell.

Diagnostics mode is really bad tho lol but it can work. It froze for me testing bad ram, memtest was better.

Not assuming but in general, keeping it always plugged in is not good.

I booted it again and listened to it more closely. It's the hard drive making the noise. That screen just showed up too.
Mystery solved, it's the hard drive.

HDD failed. replace it with an SSD.

Apple does not make HDDs, seagate makes HDDs, yet Sup Forums will blame apple for some reason

I’ve seen an old af 80gb drive that outlived it’s macbook and it had an apple logo on the label. But it was probably rebranded

If the HDD failed the Macbook would have said so.
OP isn't describing the symptoms of a failed drive.

Besides, the Macs the did use HDDs had Hitachi HGST drives.

It's the hard drive
I also looked it up and found a sound clip of what the "click of death" sounds like and that's it. Guess I'm fucked

you should have replaced with an SSD a long time ago. it's minimum requirement for the past few versions of macos. if you are using a 2011 or newer then it will breath new life into your macbook.

>apple
found your problem

>it's minimum requirement for the past few versions of macos
Shit, really? Couldn't that have made it so I couldn't install them in that case?
By the way, it's a mid-2015 model

What year/model is the macbook? If it were the HDD you should still be able to boot into recovery mode.

not literally, but you will have a bad time without an SSD. it's like night and day.

You might want to reset all these things and see if it helps:

macworld.com/article/2881177/macs/how-to-reset-your-macs-nvram-pram-and-smc.html

You already have a SSD.
The last MBP to use a HDD was the 2012 non-retina.

>you will have a bad time without an SSD.

No you won't. Sierra will run quite happily on a HDD.
Yes a SSD is nice, but a HDD is perfectly fine

>mac
Found your problem.

It says to listen to sound cues for the NVRAM which is hard to do since I have it muted.
The only search results are can find are for the retina version having an SSD. Mine isn't retina. And I'm pretty sure it's an HDD

If you disable spotlight it will run manageably, but you are definitely not going to have a good time.

The last non-retina model was made in 2012.

Had same shit as well on mid 2012 retina, might have something to do with degraded battery. Go to preferences and disable all energy saving function, this also happens when I leave MacBook in sleep mode over night.

>macbook
>spontaneously die
SAD!

Ok, I feel like an idiot now. It is mid 2012. I don't know why I'm thinking 2015

Sounds like a you problem.
I'm running it off a 1tb HDD, no lag or anything, spotlight enabled.

The only complaint I could make is that it takes a little bit to boot.

>said absolutely no one who went from hdd to ssd

considering how memory management works in macOS (i.e. heavy use of pagefile), running with SSD offers a massive performance boost.

No, sounds like you're just used to your computer being slow.

IT
JUST
SHITS THE BED

MACSHIT
NOT EVEN ONCE

>mid 2012
That's why it died. Your discrete GPU probably failed or is intermittently failing. Macbooks don't last more than five years.

hiv

what said. It's 2018. Buy a dang SSD.

Runs every bit as fast as every other computer I own.
I think you're just trying to rationalize having a shitty 128gb SSD.

See

thistbhfam

Gimme a benchmark, like time to search a folder or something so I can prove you wrong.

Reboot your fagbook and time how long it takes.

I literally said that's the only thing that's noticeably slower.
Besides, I don't go about rebooting my computer every hour so that really doesn't matter.

>that damage control

from 2010, as you are likely a poorfag still running a core 2 shit fagbook

osxdaily.com/2010/12/22/macbook-pro-ssd-vs-hdd/

HDD literally gets shrekt. Obviously performance gap will be even larger with every version of macOS after 2013 being designed around an SSD being in the fucking machine.

>Runs every bit as fast as every other computer I own.
Sry I don't believe you. Granted I went from an ass old 5400rpm HDD to a samsung 850 Pro, but it was like buying a new computer.

>What the fuck would cause my macbook to spontaneously die during sleep mode?
It's working exactly as intended.

every other computer he owns is likely as big of a piece of shit as his old as fuck macbook

>Launching 48 applications at the same time
In what way does that represent normal use?

>implying

>he doesn't immediately play a glissando across the dock when he boots up
lmao what an iPleb

You asked for benchmarks faggot and you got them. If all you do is check out Grindr.com and CL for gay hookups listings then it shouldn't matter how fucking slow your piece of shit computer is.

There is an easy fix for this

>step 1: install gentoo

You know what?
I just launched 35 applications (I don't have 40 installed) and it only took 50 seconds for all of them to load, including Firefox updating itself.

Nice fucking benchmark faggot.
Keep telling yourself that your tiny SSD was so worth it.

>mac

>thinks an SSD is expensive

35 bookmarks to gay porn sites don't count as separate applications. also it would have been faster on an SSD. also LOL

So it's at least 3x slower than an SSD?

who told you it was okay to post pictures of my wife?

>Paying 8x more for only a ~3x performance boost.

8x more than what? you would have to go out of your way to find a mac with a hdd nowadays and old as fuck macs like core 2 garbage belong in the trash, not on your desk.

2012 non-retina has an i7-3820qm, 16gb of ram, a 1tb HDD, and useful ports.
Compare that to a recent macbook which has a 256gb SSD and one USB-C port.

>mac

>I dont know what a macbook is
I don't like Macs, but how are you this retarded

even the cheapest 12" macbook is faster than your antiquated piece of shit. an IB mbp barely gets 6h battery life new. how butthurt were you when the haswell models landed with effectively double the battery life?

...

>mactoddlers bragging to each other about speed
>newest 7700HQ memebook gets BTFO by a 6600U

How will mactoddlers ever recover?

Respond to this post or your macbook dies in her sleep tonight

>What the fuck would cause my macbook to spontaneously die during sleep mode?
>mac

There's your answer.

don't want to take any chances

your warranty ended probably

AIDS

it's called "apple care" because they "care"

>mac

fight me cunt she is me waifu

Do you have any USB shit connected to it? If yes, I'd see if you still get the problem without any of it (including external display, except maybe power source).

>mac

You deserve it for using a toy os in an overpriced package

>died in sleep
blessed

What bug is that specifically? I'm running it on a old MacBook Mid 2010 and I haven't noticed it dieing while I put it to sleep. It's usually always in sleep mode when I'm not using it.

I have a mid 2009 mbp that did this. Replacing the hard drive cable did the job.