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MBP fried?

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jterrorc

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Hi. I have a MBP 13 mid 2010. A decade old but running great. I have updated the drive. Changed the dvdrom to another drive. Added 8gb ram. Wish it take more. That was all manageable. Macs been running great for the past 4 or 5 years after those upgrades but now it’s dead.

What ate me up was a blown speaker. While installing a new one I failed to disconnect the battery. Didn’t realize while trying to pry the speaker connector & accidentally shorted a tiny fuse of some sort next to it. Also broke off the whole connector. I’m not completely illiterate but I know it’s too small for me to replace myself. I will add a pic of what I think my shortage is. Could there be something bigger than this I don’t see?


Worst case, my board is fried, can I just replace it? If so where can I buy one? Worth taking to Genius Bar? Kind of ashamed. 🤦🏻‍♂️
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

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You could check eBay to see if there are any logic boards available there. I bought a fully upgraded logic board for my 2010 MacBook Air at the beginning of 2020, and that ran me about $55. Used iFixIt videos to guide me in replacing the board.
 
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Thank you all for your suggestions. I will try & find a board to replace. If I can’t then another older Mac will have to do.

Who is Louis Rossman?
 
brianmowrey said:
A replacement board will run you ~$500. Turn your loss into opportunity. For $300-$400 you can shop around for a mid-2012 machine that you can plop your drives into, plus bump to 16GB RAM
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Will both my drives fit & work properly? Plug & play style?
Also. Will a 15” work with my drives. I haven’t researched the difference there. Maybe a difference in the roms carrying case for the drive.
 
jterrorc said:
Will both my drives fit & work properly? Plug & play style?
Also. Will a 15” work with my drives. I haven’t researched the difference there. Maybe a difference in the roms carrying case for the drive.
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2.5” SATA drives will swap to any unibody/2nd gen mbp model, as will your current 2nd drive caddy.

If your current first drive is SATA 3 capable, then your 2010 logic board has been throttling it to SATA 2 (presuming it’s an SSD). A 2011 or 2012 will bump that drive to SATA 3 speeds, which should give you quite faster booting (whereas the optical drive connection is still SATA 2 on those models).
 
brianmowrey said:
2.5” SATA drives will swap to any unibody/2nd gen mbp model, as will your current 2nd drive caddy.

If your current first drive is SATA 3 capable, then your 2010 logic board has been throttling it to SATA 2 (presuming it’s an SSD). A 2011 or 2012 will bump that drive to SATA 3 speeds, which should give you quite faster booting (whereas the optical drive connection is still SATA 2 on those models).
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I’m not sure what sata it is. Looking at the description it says sata 6 GB/s. Not sure if that’s what you’re referring to. Also says. 1 TB 3D NAND Sata 560 mb/s

hallux said:
Just Google his name, he's not hiding. I'm not going to advertise for him, but it's not hard to find him.
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Whoa. Subscribed. Lots of info.

I found a drive for around 150. Wondering if that’s a decent price.

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jterrorc said:
Looking at the description it says sata 6 GB/s. Not sure if that’s what you’re referring to. Also says. 1 TB 3D NAND Sata 560 mb/s
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That's SATA 3. Throughput is 500-600MBs. But the primary (and optical) drive connectors on 2010 MBPs are still SATA 2, which is half the throughput. If it's an SSD, it will be twice as fast just moving to the primary drive of a 2011/2012 MBP (but optical/caddy drive is no change).
 
Used MacBook Pros are in very short supply in my area because of WFH and SFH. My 2008 MBP 17 died in 1018 - so getting ten years out of one of these things is already pretty good. I'd look for a 2015 MBP but those are unicorns these days. I'd also look at a 2020 MBP 13 if that's an option.
 
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