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Description
Reinstallation requires Arctic Silver Thermal Paste.
Compatibility
| MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Early 2011 |
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| MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Late 2011 |
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Repair Stories
My PS3 wouldn't turn on.
I repaired the yellow light of death, but when I turned on my PS3 it couldn't connect to the network or accept games..
When buying anything make sure you know everything that could go wrong before you invest any money into it in the first place. Common sense.
Logic board diagnosed bad by local repair shop after got whit screen and nothing to else. I ord Ed a lifetime warranty replacement from IFixit for a good price after reading through repair and seeing I could do it myself. I ordered their tools to make sure I had quality tools I would use again. Tha . . .
The Mac Mini I had was extremely slow and thankfully had the ability to repair the processor, I did so.
It went well, the tools I purchased did the job masterfully.
Be patient, be kind, and use cable ties.
RROD
Repair was easy enough, just followed the directions. May want to watch a video or 2 on the X clips, pretty easy to destroy the whole motherboard if you screw this part up.
The whole process was pretty easy. To do the reflow, instead of initially heating the board with the heat gun, I put it in t . . .
My macbook was getting hot lately (47 degrees on idle and 85+ degrees on final cut rendering)
I changed the thermal paste with help from Ifixit
Yes, It worked and my Macbook is now 35 C degrees idle and 75-80 on final cut
Black screen when turning on computer.
Good.
Just to add how approx. how much thermal paste to use.
A colleague at work had a 2012 MacBook Air that had just died, and had been quoted NZ$900 to replace the logic board. She decided instead l to just buy a new one. I said I'd give it a try to repair and get all her data back so she just gave me the dead air.
I bought a secondhand logic board through . . .
Mac would not boot. Initialized the hard drive, installed a new OS and replaced the battery. I did it all with the 54 bit driver set.
The Mac is up and working again. Quick and responsive.
Apple wouldn't sell me a replacement battery but IFIXIT did. Thanks for the guides, parts and tools.
2011 MacBook with screen of death
I've never even opened a computer before, but now I think I'm Steve Jobs. My Mac has been passed down, so I don't qualify for the logic board replacement & didn't have a grand to fix it. So followed the directions on how to take it apart & reaplied thermal glue. (Als . . .
need toolkit like repair business toolkit
my video card not working give me black screen I open the card and clean it inside at arctic silver and put the card in the oven and put thermal paste I test the video card not working :) and I am very very happy with this toolkit Thank you ifixit :)
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