MacBook won‘t turn on after Monterey install

Worth trying and this is what my technician did in my Apple Store and I think my laptop works like before with Big Sur but now with Monterey. I know that in another country one acquaintance was told to have new hardware and pay for a lot like some people in this thread. It’s so crazy nothing has been done to stop brick laptops and they have not instructed Apple Stores to give the least inconveniencing solution for users. If there is a hardware problem caused by this update it’s their responsibility to fix it for free.

I upgraded MBP 2018 to Monterey and set a time machine back up after. While backing up it made a cracking noise, followed by burning smell and it doesn’t turn on any more. This is so weird. This MBP was barely used over the past three years.

I have the same issue, called Apple support, we toiled and labored, pressed all sorts of buttons, reset all sorts of things, still blank screen, an no click when I press the trackpad. Appears completely dead.

Have to go to the Apple store.

(it's a 2020 MacBook but I just bought it - new - about a month ago).

Apple employees suggests purchase $399.99 Apple Care+ for their products to get repair in the store. However the problem is many 2017, 2018 consumers are still ineligible because it would be expired by today.

Well for those interested I have an update on my particular issue. I don’t have a T2 chip, so revive didn’t work. Tried a new power supply, did not work. Found an iMac on eBay with a busted shell and screen. Logic board seemed to be in good working order. Bought it. It arrived yesterday. Stripped all the parts and pieces. Installed the new logic board. Plugged Catalina thumb drive and hit the power and option key. Unfortunately my keyboard was dead so it booted into windows. I can work with that, *pumps fist in the air*. Plugged keyboard in, booted into recovery. Deleted that Monterey update by formatting the the apple drive and hallelujah it’s installing. So $200 later it looks like I’m back in business. Good luck to everyone having issues and thanks for all the input.

I feel sad for all of us here but I don't think we can do much about it. I've visited multiple authorized service providers, endless emails to apple support, spoke with 4 different "apple senior advisers", raised a complaint in consumer forum. At this stage i've lost all hope of getting it repaired from apple without paying ~$900. Apple is really scamming their customers and many of them are apple loyalists who are too deep in their ecosystem.

Unless there is a program from apple to repair/exchange these devices, we've to pay out of our pocket.

Have you tried the Safe Mode method ? Still zero affect ?

It’s a desktop so that doesn’t work. I did disconnect the power cord. Pressed the power for about 30 sec then reconnected and same result…nothing seems to be a 21.5 in paper weight atm

Hi, So far, Two ppl got their macs repaired/replaced from free, most of them revived their laptops and others either have a brick or paid out of their pocket.

did u get a refund from apple. ?