10.15 Catalina....bricked my Mid 2014 13" Macbook Pro? Blinking file icon

Well nothing could be done apart from a £580 logic board replacement which I declined as I am not paying for an Apple update breaking my Mac.

The Genius Bar did a full diagnostic check and nothing was wrong, in fact it was commented on how little use the laptop had had it’s just the ssd can’t be seen at all now.

has anyone managed to work out a way of repairing, is it even possible or is it just a 1250 paperweight.

I’m sorry but this can’t be a coincidence that drives are failing after an update as there are too many of us.

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Troubleshoot on battery? Had to as update caused EFI issue, would not see charger. Install Catalina while on battery? Of course not, lol.... Update caused issue, check my reply on my post and hope you can figure out what I am saying.

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Well some how mine is part working after not touching it for 2 months.

I’ve gone from the flashing icon to it booted and I managed to get boot camp booting and windows installed and working.

It works and then I reboot and it’s not working, a few boots later it’s working.

Now I am resorting a 10.14 image from last year to see if that cures the booting for good.

I know it looks like a hardware issue but I never ever saw even a crash or freeze in the past, all my issues started with the Catalina update 🤷🏻‍♂️

Completely agree. There are multiple posts regarding this clustered around Oct 1st week,

I wont post the solution here, I don't want my account to be banned. But it will require direct action on the logic board. There nothing an end user can do to solve this.

@DPJ I asked them to check if it was a SSD issue. The same SSD boots on a different Macbook, so it’s not a hard disk issue.

I had the same issue, after Catalina, my MacBook Pro 2015 died... I didn't have any backup, and I've lost all of my research (which is fomented by the government) I`ve lost months of hard work.

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I really agree, but when you pay a ton of money on a computer (mainly here on Brazil) you don't expect that an official update will brick your device. MacBooks are known by being reliable computers, not by bricking after a mere update.

"Don't be fooled, Catalina is halting/crashing when updating the EFI leaving it corrupted."

I'm not fooled by anything. I have a 2018 MBP which I just installed Catalina. It's working perfectly. What does that tell you? Perhaps your setup had some corrupt files that didn't work with Catalina. You can't ignore others that are not having issues simply because you and a few others do. With this being the case then you have to realize that the people having problems either have a setup with corrupt or incompatible files or it's hardware failure. Why would mine and many others be working fine? Also please refrain from insults. I'm not anybody's fool.

"Everyone who is having issues seems to own a 2012-2015 Apple computer. "

Obviously you're wrong. Take a look at the post before mine. Person claims to have an issue with a 2017 MBP. This is a hardware failure. An OS can't damage the system and won't appear bricked unless the install failed or the person didn't take proper steps with the install. I've been on Mac for the past 24 years and never had an install problem.

"You should not equate your experiences to be the only ones that exist. "

Oh the irony! That's exactly what you're doing. People like me that don't exhibit problems with the Catalina install should definitely post so others know the issue is isolated and not widespread. I suppose you prefer for me to keep quiet so that it only looks like everybody is having problems only? SMH.

" but that doesn't mean the ones who are having problems are making it all up. "

And where did I state that people were making up problems? Show me! Go ahead I'm waiting. I said that an OS cannot cause hardware failure and the only reason there would be issues is due to the user's setup as far as select softwares (or corrupt ones) they have installed that are not compatible with Catalina which are generally 32bit apps. I also stated that the install may have been done incorrectly or there was a interruption during the install which makes the system appear to be bricked.

Look, I know most of you here just want to lay the blame on Apple so you can make it look widespread to get a free repair if the solution ends in hardware failure. This is generally what users with new accounts do on this forum as they refuse to accept any responsibility that the problem could somehow be the fault of their own. Very ridiculous.