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Mac starts up to error -5101F

A few days ago my macbook air didn't turn on and it just stayed on the apple screen. I entered recovery mode, but it showed the following error message -5101F, please could you check.

MacBook Air (2018 – 2020)

Posted on Apr 1, 2023 1:56 PM

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Posted on Apr 1, 2023 3:02 PM

This mostly means that the computer is trying to boot from internet recovery, but it is failing to do so Try to press cmd+R on startup to enter normal macOS recovery instead of internet recovery.


You can also try and press option+cmd+R to enter internet recovery manually and to see if that works

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Mac starts up to error -5101F

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