Mac OS Monterey update fail

Well, I received my "original" apple NVMe 512 GB disk that I bought used on eBay. Apple branded but made by Samsung. I got it but won't have time for a while to go through all the work to do this. I did find something out when I installed Monterey on a 2014 Mac mini.... that is my main iTunes (55 inch 4k Monitor) and 8 TB external media drive.... after installing things run faster if you an believe it... but not a single setting program inside the systems preference will work. They won't open and an error comes up. C'mon Apple... do I dare screw up my production 2013 Mac Pro.... or take a chance doing it... if updating a Mac mini corrupts the system preferences?

I will have to totally wipe that system now.... and try to reinstall.... not very nice right?

Boy, 2021 is the year apple has caused more problems for me than any other. My friends are making fun of this Mac Fan Boy.... "Who's happy they have a Mac Now? !!!!" ugh. ;-(. You know... I don't even let Apple know about this crap... cuz I really think that they will see corrupted system preferences as a one-off...."well, one guy, with one Mac mini..that we sold back in 2014.... has a problem... ha ha.... yeah, not going to worry about it."

;-(. Apple is letting me down big time.

I hope the Apple engineers come up with a solution. This is so un-Apple, but everyone has a bad day occasionally. I'm only wondering if testing is less strict in these days.

Anyways, I invested $37 and a week of wait, but now succeeded installing on my OWS Aura 2 in my Mac Pro.

Back to work ...

Manfred

Same problem. I first tried updating to the latest version of Big Sur, but can't get the final update. It does the exact same thing as this. I have a school computer lab full of the exact same iMacs all with OWC 32GB of RAM but the original apple 2TB SSD and so far (luckily) they have all worked. My work machine refuses to upgrade. Super frustrating. I tried downloading over wifi first, then erased that and downloaded over ethernet in case that makes a difference. Will try installing from an external drive next.

I know that it is several momaths later but wanted to respond. I am a computer engineer who switched to Mac from PC in 2008.

That being said, due to my work I use a PC laptop and docking station thst is so locked down that I cannot change the wallpaper. I hate it! LOL

i have an MSI PC laptop for gaming… and it is a pain to spend 25 minutes updating the graphics driver and Windows “autoCorruptdate” to make sure that it is running ok. Again…. I hate it… but at least I get rewarded with playing a cool game.

i am so much more productive on my Mac and although MacOS does hang and reboot “occasionally” … it is still a thousand times less than a PC.

things are more integrated and they just work. I think I would have a hard time goi g back to

my Windows Xp days… which are better than my Win 3’0 days. Funny… IBM OS/2 ran windows better than Microsoft’s regular Windows install did.

yeah… I don’t want to go back… lol.

Same issue.

Same issue on an MBP Mid 2015 (11,4)

I'm with you. Very disappointed with Apple for not addressing this issue in some way before the release of Monterey. Cannot believe they weren't aware of it.

My Macbook Pro - 2015 and

Boot ROM Version: MBP114.0177.B00

SMC Version (system): 2.29f24

and can not update Monterey with error : Storage Firmware

me too !

if this is the case I would expect a software solution from Apple.

...I have the same problem and I am waiting for a solution from Apple, but they do not act until now. We need updates for all affected Macs very fast please!

I have similar experience, I also installed a 3rd party 1TB SSD and updated to Big-Sur succeed as above procedure! Thanks!

Wonderful! Glad it worked… my Mac Pro is my production system so I will be doing reverting g to my apple NVMe drive to upgrade… hopefully it will go as well as your upgrading went. Thank you!

Same exact issue here, same Mac model, same firmware/SMC versions, same Apple SSD too!

Terrible quality control, Apple.