Reviving a Dead M2 MacBook Pro When the DFU Key Combo Won't Cooperate
My 14" M2 MacBook Pro died after a reboot. It went down, never came back up, and no amount of button-holding would bring it back. This is the writeup of how I got it back from the brink, including why the documented DFU procedure failed me and how a small tool from the Asahi Linux project saved the machine. The symptom The laptop was completely dark. No chime, no Apple logo, no keyboard backlight, nothing on the internal display. The one sign of life: it was pulling a steady ~17W over USB-C according to my inline power meter. ...