Try a forced reboot and diagnostics before assuming the MacBook Air logic board is dead.

Signs of a failing logic board are pretty obvious, but a lot of people jump to conclusions.

Common symptoms: random shutdowns or kernel panics where the screen goes gray and says you need to restart, display artifacts or flickering, trackpad or keyboard acting weird, battery not charging even though the system sees it, or the Mac just suddenly freezing dead. But these can also be caused by a bad battery, corrupt OS, or failing RAM (which isn’t upgradeable on Airs anyway, but still).

Before you declare it toast, try these steps: force restart (hold power button 10 secs), then reset SMC (for M1 Air: shut down, plug in power, hold power button 10 secs, release and turn on; for Intel: Shift+Control+Option+Power). Then reset NVRAM (Intel only: Command+Option+P+R at startup). Then boot into diagnostics by holding D at startup and run the test. If it reports no issue or passes, try safe mode (Shift at startup). If the