MacBook won‘t turn on after Monterey install

yes! integrated intel chip

 Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro16,1

  Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Core i9

  Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 8

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 16 MB

  Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

  Memory: 16 GB

My issue as well. Mine doesn’t have the t2 chip so the the Genius Bar tried the configurator but without success. Tech suggested trying a power supply. Don’t think that’s the issue but I have one on order. If it works it’s $40. If not I’ll be shopping for a logic board. Will keep ya’ll updated.

I’m interested in what their engineers say. I know some feel this is malicious, and I just don’t see that as the case. That being said it’s really sad that machines are being killed by this update. I personally will always by apple because I think it’s the best bang for the buck, I just hope they figure out a fix for these older machines.

It's more inept than anything else. There's a few problems here. Clearly there are hardware issues with a variety of MacBooks--quality control seems to be one problem. The OS update is clearly pushing some MacBooks to the limit too--where's the testing here? My biggest problem is the customer service, which has zero intention of getting to the root of the issue. The default answer for most people is pay up to continue using their products.

Why would I pay $500 for something that could break again on the next update? I'm a huge fan of Apple. Their computers are simply the best looking too. But all I got now is a year and a half old paperweight. Maybe I should have paid for Apple Care, but I wouldn't even want to pay the fee to repair this problem--this is entirely a problem of Apple's making.

So they acknowledged the problem for t2 chips. What about all the other MacBooks that were bricked and don’t have the t2 Chip? I have 2016 MacBook Pro 13 with Touchbar. I don’t have the t2 Chip and my MacBook is dead?! Is Apple going to do anything about those?

Same thing has happened to me in yet another part of the planet - and to my amazement, 2 conversations with Apple Support on Saturday 6th November, think they're in the Ireland, claimed that I was absolutely the only person that had reported this problem to them, they hadn't heard from one other person who'd had any problems with the Monterey update! Can this possibly be the truth?

After they revived the T2 chip, do you get the original hard disk back? or all things in hard disk are gone? Thanks.

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My experience with Monterey Upgrade, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253322166

No, I didn't think I would have been. No, I don't recall being given the person's name, I received a callback after having been onto the online chat. Even though I was on a landline the connection was very poor and it was very difficult to hear. It was a male and it was just before noon yesterday, Saturday, 6th November - but I'm sure there would have been lots of people fielding calls at that time.

Well at least my support agent here accepts that it's a known issue and i'm not at fault. But they don't have any info. from upper management and can't fix it unless there is a service program.

Have you sent a feedback at https://www.apple.com/feedback ?

I have but will send another feedback.

I've also been in touch with the retailer from whom I purchased the device and they've advised: "This seems to be a very recent issue and after speaking to our apple rep in the branch he has advised in the first instance, calling apple support again as they now have more information on this than they may have had yesterday." This is why I tried Apple Support again - but no, they still don't appear to have any information at all on this - they even said they'd checked their "resources" whilst we were in touch and there was nothing - unbelievable, but what can you do? I'll just have to keep plugging away and hope I get somewhere in the end.

Call, ask to talk to a Senior Support Advisor, say the forums are flooded with cases, say you can link the cases to them. Say that news websites already reported on the issue, send the link to those as well.

And say ask if an exception to your case can be granted as it can take long until Apple launch a repair program.

Update. Took my 2020 MacBook Pro to the “Genius Bar”. They couldn’t fix it there, wanted to keep for a day or two. Today got a call saying that their efforts have failed, they have to send it somewhere and get it “refurbished”. Mine is still under the limited warranty, so it will cover the repair.

That Monterey update was literacy da bomb. 🙄

This definitely hurts. I spoke with two different senior advisors and both declined to authorise a repair/replacement without paying. I was asked to leave a feedback at apple.com/feedback and if there is a service program, they'll call me back. It's so frustrating. I went to two different Authorized Service centers for them to get a second opinion.

Even i brought up this forum twice and i've informed them that 3 ppl got their macs repaired without charge. But they are replying the same to me that unless apple starts a service program we cannot authorise a repair free of charge.

I've raised a complaint in the consumer court as a last resort. If that doesn't work out, i'll have to repair it out of pocket and stop buying macbooks in future. It's really sad that a software update can brick our laptops and the senior advisors cannot authorize a repair knowing and accepting the fact that the laptop is bricked because of faulty os update.

BTW, I get this error when trying to revive/restore the mac. https://imgur.com/a/MCvMbmR

(AMRestoreErrorDomain error 6 - failed to handle msg type StatusMsg) 
[AMRestoreErrorDomain - 0x6 (6)].

Does anyone know what this error means and any known fix.