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Shuts down RANDOMLY USUALLY right after powering up

Ok so I’ve seen a lot of people post about a caption issue with the mid 2010 Mbp 15” unibody and although that may be the issue I’ve included a screenshot of what I was able to get from the shutdown report. I followed the directions Apple posted to reset the cpu in order to help with power fluctuations and it ran for about 20mins before I tried opening one of my DAWs and it immediately went black screen and tried to restart itself.

Wondering if you could direct me to someone who could fix this because if it’s a cheap fix I’d like to get it done and upgrade the laptop instead of shelling out a couple thousand for a new one with all of the software and programs I had.

Also if there’s a fix to just get it to turn back on so I might be able to back up my hard drives I’d be interested in that as well.

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As it turns out this is very fixable!

You have a capacitor failure (C9560). Here’s a great vid by Louis Rossmann that gets into the repair Macbook Pro 2010 kernel panic GPU issue repair: SOLVED! C9560 and here’s the needed part C9560

As to putting it in you really need to have the proper tools. See if you have someone local that has the skills and proper tools.

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