So I got brave today and decided to try to fix my pawnshop 2006 MacBook Pro. I purchased it from a pawnshop in the fall of 2012. According to the stuff on the hard drive, it had been a one owner machine since new and had been owned by a church. It had been working well up until right before I came out to Korea about a year ago. It started getting really distorted graphics or would get unresponsive and the screen would go white. Some times, if I wiggled the screen, it got better. After a while it just quit and gave me a dull gray nothing.
After consulting PeachMac:"Sorry sir, your 2006 laptop is classified as 'vintage' and we can only sell you memory and hard drives". And a few of the Mac Repair Prophets Of Doom here in Korea: estimates between $150 - $450, no guarantees, and an offer of $50 to buy it off me for parts.
I consulted Google, which then led me to Youtube and about a million "How I fixed my MacBook Pro with a ...." What the hell: it's a paperweight as it sits anyway.
Consulted a few vids (one in French, Oui je parle un peu) and tore the thing apart. My first time knifing up a MacBook BTW. Done a bunch of Windows laptops, so I figured it wouldn't be too weird. Well, they are weird.
Anyway I had to get the motherboard out, clean it, and stick it in a 375 F oven. Yes, an oven. Stunk up the house pretty good.
This also included a trip to the PX for tin foil and to the iPark Mall for a Torx screwdriver.
Slapped it back together, and let the battery charge for a bit.
Turned it on and got another dull gray nothing. I started banging on keys in various combinations (mostly because I was getting irritated and was hoping maybe it would just catch fire). It beeped at me, letting me know those buttons shouldn't be pressed together. Well that's good, at least I didn't screw it up any worse that it was (Farpatchkit: is Yiddish for "I broke it worse while trying to fix it")
I wiggled the screen and now the damn thing seems to be working.
Any ideas? I'm thinking somethings up in the screen bezel. None of the Prophets wanted to believe me.
I've had it on for about an hour and the screen image has shimmied a bit, but a little wiggle and it's fine.
Thoughts?
After consulting PeachMac:"Sorry sir, your 2006 laptop is classified as 'vintage' and we can only sell you memory and hard drives". And a few of the Mac Repair Prophets Of Doom here in Korea: estimates between $150 - $450, no guarantees, and an offer of $50 to buy it off me for parts.
I consulted Google, which then led me to Youtube and about a million "How I fixed my MacBook Pro with a ...." What the hell: it's a paperweight as it sits anyway.
Consulted a few vids (one in French, Oui je parle un peu) and tore the thing apart. My first time knifing up a MacBook BTW. Done a bunch of Windows laptops, so I figured it wouldn't be too weird. Well, they are weird.
Anyway I had to get the motherboard out, clean it, and stick it in a 375 F oven. Yes, an oven. Stunk up the house pretty good.
This also included a trip to the PX for tin foil and to the iPark Mall for a Torx screwdriver.
Slapped it back together, and let the battery charge for a bit.
Turned it on and got another dull gray nothing. I started banging on keys in various combinations (mostly because I was getting irritated and was hoping maybe it would just catch fire). It beeped at me, letting me know those buttons shouldn't be pressed together. Well that's good, at least I didn't screw it up any worse that it was (Farpatchkit: is Yiddish for "I broke it worse while trying to fix it")
I wiggled the screen and now the damn thing seems to be working.
Any ideas? I'm thinking somethings up in the screen bezel. None of the Prophets wanted to believe me.
I've had it on for about an hour and the screen image has shimmied a bit, but a little wiggle and it's fine.
Thoughts?