Hi All,
I played around with the developer beta of Sequoia to try out games on the new GPTK. I was able to play a few games I couldn't previously so that was cool. Once I was done with that, I formatted, reinstalled sonoma, and loaded up a time machine back up (something I have done a few times before, without beta stuff). The thing is, my mac seems a little wonky ever since. Crashing while using safari, needing to be hard reset and all that. I looked at system info, and I noticed the System Firmware Version is still the same as it was with Sequoia installed, but the iBoot version is still the Sonoma one. In other words, I imagine the firmware version is in a "beta" state itself. I am wondering if there is an easy way to get back to the stable firmware version. I have AC+ and an apple store 15 mins away, so I guess worst case I can run to the apple store and have them roll it back or something, or I could try to see if a buddy can let me use their mac, but I am thinking this is something that should be simple to do on my own. I actually just re-formatted and have Sonoma installing right now from a flash drive (did a recoveryOS restore the first time). That might fix it for all I know. But while I am waiting figured I would ask/maybe someone else will look for this in the future. Anyone been down this road? I have a 16" M3 Pro.
I played around with the developer beta of Sequoia to try out games on the new GPTK. I was able to play a few games I couldn't previously so that was cool. Once I was done with that, I formatted, reinstalled sonoma, and loaded up a time machine back up (something I have done a few times before, without beta stuff). The thing is, my mac seems a little wonky ever since. Crashing while using safari, needing to be hard reset and all that. I looked at system info, and I noticed the System Firmware Version is still the same as it was with Sequoia installed, but the iBoot version is still the Sonoma one. In other words, I imagine the firmware version is in a "beta" state itself. I am wondering if there is an easy way to get back to the stable firmware version. I have AC+ and an apple store 15 mins away, so I guess worst case I can run to the apple store and have them roll it back or something, or I could try to see if a buddy can let me use their mac, but I am thinking this is something that should be simple to do on my own. I actually just re-formatted and have Sonoma installing right now from a flash drive (did a recoveryOS restore the first time). That might fix it for all I know. But while I am waiting figured I would ask/maybe someone else will look for this in the future. Anyone been down this road? I have a 16" M3 Pro.
. I was able to use configurator from that and got my M3 Pro back to the sonoma firmware version and restored from time machine. Assuming now if i have any issues its not at all related to the beta and just coincidentally timed.