Trying to downgrade from Sonoma, now Mac will come on then shut off

Upgraded to Sonoma. Mac would see Screen through Blackmagic ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4k but screen would not come through ATEM.


So I now have tried to down grade From Sonoma to earlier OS.


Now Mac will get a 1/4 way through loading and shut down.


have tried control R for recovery mode. Tried loading from Time machine, Have tried loading High S again, and I have done disk repair as well (no errors on all drives).


Now it seem to continue to make a new partition with every attempt to Load OS.



iMac 27″, macOS 14.1

Posted on Nov 29, 2023 11:40 AM

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Posted on Nov 30, 2023 9:53 AM

1st Found this link in support for The OS issue of not reinstalling Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac - Apple Support

Actually had to use the Option-Command-R and it took Found a web connection and Download Recovery files from apple thankfully. I had to take time to run Apple first Aid on every hard drive to make sure things were good. I had kept getting a OS corruption Notice on a previous Version that came with the computer. It still would not instal. Had a message of failure every time. The last ditch effort was to try the combination of Option-Command-R which worked this time thankfully.


Unfortunately the only thing now is I could not downgrade from Sonoma, had to reinstall Sonoma which has gotten the Mac back now.


Now back to the original problem at hand...

Mac Screen output recognizing Screens, but Blackmagic ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K not allowing/receiving the output of the Mac to be seen in the Switcher.


I will comment again with what response from BM support, as well as trying to setting options on video output with Mac OS Sonoma that may or may not be there depending on which article you read on here. Ok here is to the next step. Good luck to anyone having the same issues.

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Nov 30, 2023 9:53 AM in response to bailingwire

1st Found this link in support for The OS issue of not reinstalling Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac - Apple Support

Actually had to use the Option-Command-R and it took Found a web connection and Download Recovery files from apple thankfully. I had to take time to run Apple first Aid on every hard drive to make sure things were good. I had kept getting a OS corruption Notice on a previous Version that came with the computer. It still would not instal. Had a message of failure every time. The last ditch effort was to try the combination of Option-Command-R which worked this time thankfully.


Unfortunately the only thing now is I could not downgrade from Sonoma, had to reinstall Sonoma which has gotten the Mac back now.


Now back to the original problem at hand...

Mac Screen output recognizing Screens, but Blackmagic ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K not allowing/receiving the output of the Mac to be seen in the Switcher.


I will comment again with what response from BM support, as well as trying to setting options on video output with Mac OS Sonoma that may or may not be there depending on which article you read on here. Ok here is to the next step. Good luck to anyone having the same issues.

Nov 30, 2023 11:08 AM in response to bailingwire

It is ALWAYS are VERY bad idea to downgrade OS's. If you are having a problem after installing an OS update you should address the problem. It is almost never ever Mac OS causing the issue!!!!


Before you take any more steps, please take the Mac to your local Apple Authorized Service Provider to have it serviced, if you ignore this advice you are only making your problem worse!!!!!!!!!

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