Never, ever offer to fix someone's MBP!

[Marty62]

Well ... I did, it's a 2008 C2D 2.16 MBP, very similar to my last one.

Story was, won't boot suddenly, no damage and been sitting around for a year.

So over it comes :

Keyboard / whole top is loose and disconnected from the lower case !

DVD bay removed !

HDD not screwed in, just "flapping around" in it's bay !

Well .. at least my initial "access" was quicker

Wouldn't boot, did all the obvious stuff managed to get a "chime" once but that's
as far as we got.

Wouldn't boot from an external or a spare HDD with system ( 10.6.8 ) as it's a
10.6.x Mac.

Could see his internal HDD on my MBP so data is there and the drive "worked"

I suspect that the Logic board or cables have issues, NOT surprised as it was carried
over to me with the bloody HDD flapping around in it's bay and those internal
cables are not the sturdiest things !!

Oh well I tried .... but won't be doing that again in a hurry !!

Marty

 

[maflynn]

At the point of seeing how things were flapping around, I'd give it back to the person and tell him/her that its too poor of condition to do anything

 

[snaky69]

Well ... I did, it's a 2008 C2D 2.16 MBP, very similar to my last one.

Story was, won't boot suddenly, no damage and been sitting around for a year.

So over it comes :

Keyboard / whole top is loose and disconnected from the lower case !

DVD bay removed !

HDD not screwed in, just "flapping around" in it's bay !

Well .. at least my initial "access" was quicker

Wouldn't boot, did all the obvious stuff managed to get a "chime" once but that's
as far as we got.

Wouldn't boot from an external or a spare HDD with system ( 10.6.8 ) as it's a
10.6.x Mac.

Could see his internal HDD on my MBP so data is there and the drive "worked"

I suspect that the Logic board or cables have issues, NOT surprised as it was carried
over to me with the bloody HDD flapping around in it's bay and those internal
cables are not the sturdiest things !!

Oh well I tried .... but won't be doing that again in a hurry !!

Marty

2008? C2D? Won't boot?

Quick fix: new logic board, I'm 99% sure his/her GPU fried.

 

[Marty62]

At the point of seeing how things were flapping around, I'd give it back to the person and tell him/her that its too poor of condition to do anything

Almost did that ! ... but he's a "Pal" so I mentioned the "condition" and did my
best !!

He's off to a pro repair shop with it, just to see what they say & how much €'s

M.

 

[Roman2K~]

Quick fix: new logic board, I'm 99% sure his/her GPU fried.

Not what I would call a "quick" fix . You're suggesting to replace the whole guts, a single part but the most expensive one of the machine.

 

[snaky69]

Not what I would call a "quick" fix . You're suggesting to replace the whole guts, a single part but the most expensive one of the machine.

Well, the swap itself is pretty quick, and is the only thing that'll bring it back from the dead.