Thank you.

⟐ Answer accepted May 22, 2013 at 9:22 pm -0700

I want to know if this replacement part sold on ifixit would resolve this issue so I don't have to use the redneck shielding method? Does anybody know if it's shielded well enough to handle the 6G bandwidth and not get interference from the other cable?

MacBook Pro 15" Unibody (Early 2011/Late 2011) Hard Drive...

⟐ Commented May 20, 2013 at 5:17 pm -0700

⟐ Answered May 16, 2013 at 8:56 pm -0700

I do not know why.

help me !!!!!!!

⟐ Answered May 16, 2013 at 3:54 pm -0700

⟐ Answered May 10, 2013 at 8:32 pm -0700

⟐ Answered April 30, 2013 at 12:10 am -0700

This is my second liquid offense against my beloved Macbook. You think I would've learned my lesson the first time I spent $900 to fix it!

I spilled some coffee on my desk and it got on the bottom half of the laptop (the coffee was behind it). I quickly picked it up, but the screen was already black. I quickly powered off. Right now it is upside down with the bottom case off.I don't seem to have any of the right equipment to take off the small little screws. There was still some residual liquid on the inside. I dried it off. I do not plan on turning it on for at least 48 hours.

Anything else I can do right now to help save it?

⟐ Answered April 20, 2013 at 8:36 am -0700

After putting in the SSD and restoring from a time machine backup, everything seemed to work fine.

However, after putting the hard drive in, I couldn't find it under "Devices", probably because it wasn't formatted. I wanted to use Disk Utilities to format it. I tried the method with the "Erase" button as well as the "Partition" method, but every time I tried, a window would pop up telling me: "Unable to write to the last block of the device."

I called the manufacturer of the hard drive and they told me it might be the hard drive itself. So before I'm sending it back, I wanted to know if it might be something else. Can anyone help me? I hope this is the right place, since I'm not sure if it's a hardware problem.. Thank you so much

⟐ Answer accepted April 17, 2013 at 12:33 am -0700

⟐ Commented April 10, 2013 at 6:45 am -0700

I recently found one of the screw securing the back of my macbook on my floor.

Turns out the thread which is holding it it is dead ( I probably didn't screw it well last time I opened the macbook).

Luckily the parts where the thread is located is easily changeable. It's just under the aiport/bluetooth bracket.

Un-luckily, I don't know where to find this piece. If someone can help me out, it would be much appreciated !

Thank you everybody !

⟐ Comment deleted April 5, 2013 at 11:50 am -0700

I probably blew the audio circuit in my MBP by connecting the output of an amplifier to the mic input of the MBP. ;-(

I know this is really stupid but I was using a software oscilloscope to test the amplifier and got carried away by the sine waves.

Now the MBP doesn't show any input or output devices anymore. Just as if the circuitry was absent. I suspect that the audio circuit got overloaded and burnt up.

Is there a remote possibility that the audio circuit has a protection (i.e. fuse) that could be replaced ?

Than's for your insight.

⟐ Commented March 4, 2013 at 12:46 am -0700

⟐ Commented March 1, 2013 at 11:30 pm -0700

So far, this is what I have found out:

1. The computer will only exhibit this behavior if used as a portable. If it sits on the laptop stand on my desk and is not moved, then the wifi works perfectly. Once it is moved, everything fails.

2. If the computer is started up with battery power only AND not moved, the computer will not recognize the wifi card at all ("no hardware installed").

3. I have wiped the hard drive and installed different versions of OSX on the computer, but the issue still persists.

4. I have opened up the computer, made sure all the connections between the logic board and the Airport card and the antennas are secure.

5. Even when wifi fails, the bluetooth still works. If I am correct, wifi and bluetooth are on the same card.

6. And of course, I have tried multiple PRAM resets, SMC resets, anything I could think of.

Any help is appreciated!

⟐ Commented February 27, 2013 at 11:45 pm -0700

a/b/c case have damage, hao can i replace all of them. i need a detail course.

i come form china, do not spake english well, but thanks for your helps.

⟐ Answered February 18, 2013 at 11:30 am -0700

⟐ Commented February 6, 2013 at 3:02 pm -0700

Will it fit in the Macbook Pro? If it doesn't fit in the main bay, will it fit in the SuperDrive bay?

⟐ Commented January 5, 2013 at 7:46 pm -0700

⟐ Commented January 5, 2013 at 7:43 pm -0700

The magsafe is giving the green light.

When I press the power button it does not start.

Is there any pads I can short to check if the logic board in turning on.

⟐ Commented January 2, 2013 at 8:06 pm -0700

⟐ Answered December 19, 2012 at 1:26 pm -0700

After my macbook pro had liquid damage the keyboard and trackpad will not work when the computer boots into it's primary or recovery partitions.

They will work, however, when holding down the option key and having my boot options come up. After I select a boot partition they no longer work.

USB keyboard and mouse do work when booted.

Any insight??? I know my way around but this doesn't make sense to me.

⟐ Answered November 12, 2012 at 8:06 am -0700

So, I've split coke on my macbook. I did my best to recover. I waited 5 days to dry. Now the macbook turns on, USB working fine, but the keyboard doesn`t work fews keys and appear that the right click on trackpad is always on. I`ve bought a external keyboard, and works good. except if I push any keys on macbook keyboard, the right click back to turns on.

I don`t know what to do, if it is a logical board issue, is going be expensive, isn`t it?

Thank you.

⟐ Commented November 5, 2012 at 6:44 pm -0700

⟐ Answered November 5, 2012 at 6:07 pm -0700

⟐ Comment deleted November 4, 2012 at 6:11 am -0700

Only options here on site are for total LCD replacement nothing for the top glass only?

It's not as though the LCD is glued to the glass like the new Iphones and Imacs so just wondering why or where I could find such a part without the unnecessary LCD.

Thanks,

Michael C.

⟐ Answer edited October 27, 2012 at 7:26 pm -0700

⟐ Commented October 25, 2012 at 8:11 am -0700

I just got back my macbook after having spilled some coffe on the keyboard (the A-CMD-CTRL area). I went to the assistance, they opened it and told me that the system was ok, but there were just some not working keys. With my happy surprise, the keyboard works perfectly, but the only thing that seems not working is the camera. The laptop does not recognise it, also in the system profile is not recognised. So my question is the following: is it possible that the coffee damaged only the camera cable, and anything else, or is there the possibility that they did not connect the cable? I would like to open the case and just take a look, but I am quite afraid to damage something else.. moreover, if the assistance was so incompetent to forget about it, i would ask them to fix it.

every idea welcome

⟐ Answered October 24, 2012 at 4:06 pm -0700

⟐ Answered September 11, 2012 at 7:10 pm -0700

thanks!!!

⟐ Answered August 2, 2012 at 2:31 pm -0700

Upon my first attempt to power up, I got to the login screen with the keyboard back light on but the keyboard was unresponsive so I could not log in (the trackpad did work, though).

I examined the keyboard ribbon connection and reconnected it in the way that seemed correct this time. When powering on this time, the process got stuck at the gray, spinning wheel screen. I've tried several times with the same results. Disconnecting the keyboard ribbon altogether and powering up that way still produces the same gray screen result.

Any ideas?

⟐ Answered July 29, 2012 at 10:03 am -0700

⟐ Answer edited July 5, 2012 at 2:38 pm -0700

I have bad keys and need 2 replaced

⟐ Answered July 2, 2012 at 9:06 am -0700

⟐ Answered June 27, 2012 at 12:23 pm -0700

My laptop has a huge dent from a fall..... everything works fine the dent is next to the charger port ...... i was wondering how easy or difficult it would be to replace the whole bottom portion and put the whole computer into a new cover...... thanks.

⟐ Answered June 25, 2012 at 12:30 am -0700

My question is this: what is the typical noise of a MBP fan. I never really noticed it before, but theres a slight fan hum when the computer is idle that accompanies the spinning hard drive noise. I'm a little paranoid of everything since the spill, so maybe I'm overreacting!

⟐ Commented June 23, 2012 at 1:51 pm -0700

⟐ Answer deleted June 9, 2012 at 8:30 pm -0700

Context : I left my closed MacBook near my bed. When I woke up, I put one foot on it (at back of the screen assembly, where the apple is), with little pressure, as I was sitting at my bed and as I immediatly felt the MacBook under my foot.

Symptoms : Since then, when a black (or very very dark) color is displayed on the MacBook screen, there's a diffuse dark brown patch in the center, looking like dust patch the keyboard might left on your screen when it's left closed and opened later, except it doesn't dissapear with some cleaning.

Question : how can I make this patch disappear, or what piece of the display assembly can I change to repair that ?

I tried to clean the screen panel with a duster, I also tried to apply presure on the screen panel with my finger where the patch appears and I tried to run various software based dead-pixel fixers. Without any effect.

⟐ Answered June 6, 2012 at 10:39 am -0700

⟐ Answer accepted June 1, 2012 at 8:48 am -0700

⟐ Answer accepted May 31, 2012 at 5:37 pm -0700

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5020311/4s/Photo...

⟐ Commented May 22, 2012 at 12:49 pm -0700

I would like to know if its possible to remove the glass from the trackpad on macbook pro unibody

My main goal is that I'm trying to color my macbook like colorware does. only they are not available at my country so I decided to do it myself (half way done //colored the entire body and back of the screen) but i have no ideas how they do it on the trackpad.

from what i have figured so far is that the trackpad is colored(originally) much like the glass parts of the iPhone 4/4s.from the other side of the glass)

i don't know if its possible to remove the glass of the trackpad from the sensor pad it attached to and color it (without losing the sensitivity) but i do know that colorWARE does it somehow!

maybe on top of the glass ??

any thoughts and suggestions would be highly appreciated

⟐ Commented May 10, 2012 at 10:58 am -0700

I replaced the Magsafe card since there was no light when I connected a charger. The MBP starts up now and works fine - on external screen only. The internal screen is black.

I then purchased a new LVDS (video) cable and changed it. Cleaned the connector on the logic board. No luck. I even tried with a known working display. Internal video is just black.

So I guess there is no use to buy a new LCD? Does anyone know if the logic board can be damaged in a way that external video works but internal does not?

⟐ Answered April 19, 2012 at 9:13 am -0700

⟐ Answer accepted April 7, 2012 at 6:09 pm -0700

My Macbook Pro powers down completely, instead of going to sleep, after running out of battery. This last time it didn't even have time to save memory to disk and when I pressed the battery meter button on the side of the macbook, no lights appeared.

Is this usually related to a faulty battery or is it the logic board?

Update

Hi to all that replied and thank you so much.

The last 3 letters of my macbook serial number are V7L.

The system version is 10.7.3 All firmware updates are up to date to.

I have reset the SMC and PRAM.

Also I have reinstalled the system software from scratch.

I purchased this macbook on the 13 of January of the current year.

I don't have the macbook with me now but I remember that I have already made 30 cycles on the battery.

I have at least 100GB free on the hard disk.

Maybe it's the power management settings that got corrupt but I remember resetting them.

Again thank you all so much

⟐ Edited March 7, 2012 at 7:53 pm -0700