At wits end

2012 MBP 10,1 I cannot for the life of me get this thing to root patch. For a while, everything was fine on Sonoma, but after the battery died and I replaced it, for some reason it lost its graphics drivers. I was able to repatch it once and it was ok for a bit, but after the battery died recently it happened all over again. Now I'm stuck where I cannot complete root patching because it thinks there is a pending update.