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My Macbook 2011 i7, wont turn on when pressing the power button. There is no chime, fan or any indication its alive. Theres greenlight in the magsafe when plugged to machine but no orange. I’ve tried the ff, reset SMC, holding the power button for 10sec, unplugged the battery and pressed and hold the power button for 10sec, and press again, but no luck. Ive tried to power it up also thru power pads direct in the logic board, but it ddnt light up. Im was thinking to replace the DC board but I want to learn first what is alternative to do. How would I know if the failure is on its battery, keyboard, ram or worse is on its logic board? Btw, just a segway, I was having GPU failure before this problem, I was lucky to repaired it by reflawing and re-applying the thermal paste. I was able to power it up and loaded the screen successfully. But on the 2nd or 3rd try, it suddenly ddnt load up, and completely dead.
Did you buy the computer directly from Apple?, and how long has it been in your possession for?
watch Luis Rossman on YT - as he is Apple pro technician - as he says - ALL MacBook Pros 2011 15" WILL die soon or later as poor thermal design + to get worse those Radeons are tend to overheat. All it is possible to do is just slow the process of dying like install app to speed up fans and apply the best thermal paste on CPU / GPU and not use MacBook for gaming nor anything what uses GPU.
