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I bought a used 2010 MacBook Pro 17’ in Dec. its been upgraded to a 1 TB toshiba solid state hard drive. It has every know program you can think of including a complete WINDOWS operating system you can switch to- software alone is about 3 or 4 grand. Problem is mother board went. Is this worth fixing it. Will I encounter other problems. Before it went had a lot of overheating problems but turned out the first shop who claimed they fixed the mother board just a put a penny under the video card to get going. Anyway I only paid 700 for it and its a nice machine> Can anyone tell me if its worth saving or should I try and simply recover the hard drive and use the software on another new laptop?? Helpppp
Whether it is worth saving totally depends on what it will cost to fix it, and what you are willing to spend on it. Keep in mind with software, if it is on the OSX side, that you can use migration assistant. I am not a fan of Apple hardware or software, but this is where Apple shines. The best feature of Apple’s operating system is the ability to seamlessly migrate applications, settings, software, and more. Simply take your drive out of the machine, plug it into a SATA enclosure, then plug it into another machine. Go to go, applications, migration assistant, and you can copy everything over. This process is made smoother if the new machine has the same OS as the old machine. Mavericks in particular is very picky about what it migrates, you’ll get that 157 KB to migrate nonsense where it is telling you it sees nothing. Other versions of the OS do not do this. In terms of the motherboard status. It “went.” Went where? Bad LVDS MUX? Bad MCP? Or just a basic power circuit issue? One way to find out. Are you willing to give more information on the problem? Explain what it is doing, what its behavior is, if there is any behavior at all. Tell us if you have the time or inclination to open it up, go measuring, etc. Also find the people who put a penny on the GPU and beat them within an inch of their life. They give this entire craft a bad name through implementation of ignorant asinine solutions. I think you mean a copper shiv though. Not a penny. A penny would not have fit. This is still a retarded solution because the heatsink is not the issue, the $@$*!& thermal paste, tiny fans, and lack of intake vents are. The heatsink itself makes perfect contact with the CPU & GPU.
The 17" models are highly sought after. So I would say yes fix it. Then if you really want a newer system (remember 15" or smaller now) sell it to someone who whats the larger display. Yes, its an older chip design (Core 2 Duo) but for many surfing and light apps it will be more than enough.
I’ve had great success baking a couple of the 17" boards. Both had overheated, fans were clogged. You have nothing to loose if you intend on replacing it. Other option is to send it out to be repaired, cost lest than a board.
I have a Macbook pro 2010. The battery was swollen. Replaced it. But it was swollen very bad. Anyway when i replaced it the screen will go to login and thats it Ant suggestions?
