Early 2011 Macbook Pro won't boot

[Jiordano]

Hi guys,

I'm new to this forum. Found this site while searching for help...

my MBP restarted by itself while in use and it happened a couple of times till it just went dead.

I've poured through tonnes of posts on this and have tried SMC reset, NVRAM reset ,hold down power button for 10 secs with magsafe cable unplugged and plugged it back in, continuing to hold for 10 secs. The battery check button also shows battery is full charged. Magsafe cable shows bright green. Just no sign of life at all. The screen remains black with very faint fade to dark grey. When I press on the power on button, you can see very faintly the screen goes black again. You actually need to look very closely to see something is happening.

I'm in a country with no apple service centre. Any suggestions on how to diagnose if it's a motherboard/ logic board issue or battery issue, now that it won't power up at all? I could potentially purchase a new battery and new board and replace it if I know what might be the problem.

I've replaced the HDD with a 1TB hybrid and replaced the ram up to the max 16mb last year. Everything was working perfectly before the saga and now it won't even chime.

Thanks in advance!

Jiordano

 

[Fishrrman]

Important question:
What size is the screen?

If it's a 15" or 17", then you need to research something called "RadeonGate".

That's a failure of the discrete GPU and at this point it's not worth fixing anymore.

 

[Jiordano]

Important question:
What size is the screen?

If it's a 15" or 17", then you need to research something called "RadeonGate".

That's a failure of the discrete GPU and at this point it's not worth fixing anymore.

[doublepost=1536502820][/doublepost]Hi Fishrrman,

Thanks for your reply.
It's a 13". Would something like this fix the problem?