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3 MacBook Pro 17" laptop w/bad logic boards HELP PLEASE
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Prep: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Cooking time: 6-8 minutes
Method:
Preheat oven to 200C (380F). For the tastiest results (which won't involve a kitchen full of smoke), remove all components and heatsinks from the Logic Board. No additional seasoning required.
Cook the Logic Board for about a minute every quarter pound and leave to cool overnight.
Disclaimer: I'm not actually joking. If you search for "Reflow motherboard" there'll be a few guides. It's an extreme measure but it might work.
Cooking time: 6-8 minutes
Method:
Preheat oven to 200C (380F). For the tastiest results (which won't involve a kitchen full of smoke), remove all components and heatsinks from the Logic Board. No additional seasoning required.
Cook the Logic Board for about a minute every quarter pound and leave to cool overnight.
Disclaimer: I'm not actually joking. If you search for "Reflow motherboard" there'll be a few guides. It's an extreme measure but it might work.
It's only a temporary fix...and that depends on the year. The 2011 MacBook Pros have bad radeon GPUs, and AMD never released a revised one, so you would end up replacing the GPU with another faulty one.
The 2010 has a capacitor issue and can be replaced with a better capacitor, which would stop the crashing.
Psh, if you want a boat anchor, I have an alienware 15 r4. Weighs almost 8 pounds and needs a 17" laptop bag even though the screen size is 15.