macbook pro early 2011 13 logic board failure

Horizontal banding, some weird color issues. But then, I noticed the display would 'glitch'. First off, it was using a slow 5200 RPM hard disk after replacing that with a nice, fast SSD, and ensuring she had 8 GB of RAM in the laptop, I was pretty pleased with my work, and was about to shut down the laptop and send it on its way. My sister just turned over her 2011 15' MacBook Pro, which she said was running slow, and I dug in. I've handled three 2011 MacBook Pros (none of them my own-I had an Air back then), and all three of them were scrapped because of the GPU issue. The problem was so rampant, Apple was forced to set up a free repair program for affected MacBook Pros-though the 2011 model has since been dropped from that program. There was a major flaw in the AMD Radeon GPUs included with that model year's logic board which seemed to cause GPU failure either due to overheating, internal chip problems, BGA solder joints getting broken, or a combination of the above. The 2011 MacBook Pro has, for almost a decade, been the exception to that rule.

Repair Guides: Click to go to our Free Instructional Guides page.I've been a Mac user for years, and I've repaired hundreds of different Macs, from the early II series to the latest 20 model MacBook Pros, iMacs (and other Apple hardware to boot!), and there is almost never a hardware situation where I've thrown in the towel and told someone to ditch their Mac. Products sold as non-working carry no warranty. This product includes a non-working option. We do not have an exact history for each of the boards to know what individual issues were in the past. Please note there may be evidence of corrosion, liquid damage and dirt. Many of the components on the board will be good, but as this is a non-working board, we can make no guarantees about the condition or presence of specific components on the board. The board is not repairable and for that reason is being sold for scrap for harvesting components.

This is a NON-WORKING logic board that is being sold strictly for parts in as-is condition. NON WORKING FOR PARTS SOLD AS IS NOT RETURNABLE Manufacturer Part #:īrand: Apple Compatible With: N/A Suggested Items for Installation:

Macbook pro early 2011 13 logic board failure