#Check Price Refurbished: Apple MacBook Pro 15 A1286 Mid-2010 2.4 GHz Core i5 (I5-520M) GeForce GT 330M MC371LL/A Laptop Today#!! Product Refurbished: Apple MacBook Pro 15 A1286 Mid-2010 2.4 GHz Core i5 (I5-520M) GeForce GT 330M MC371LL/A Laptop benefits and look points when you are interested in a lot more feature about Computers-Tablets _ Notebooks. If you're feeling ambitious and are comfortable with rework and soldering equipment, you can replace this capacitor and see if the problem goes away.Refurbished: Apple MacBook Pro 15 A1286 Mid-2010 2.4 GHz Core i5 (I5-520M) GeForce GT 330M MC371LL/A Laptop If you do go the board repair route, make sure that they know what they're doing. One thing to note though, is that "reflowing" the graphics chip with heat (which is a "repair" that many places do) will temporarily keep the issue from happening, but is not a proper fix as the issue will conveniently come back again after your warrantee expires. This isn't an easily diagnosable issue though, due to it's intermittency and the fact that most people think the "GPU" is at fault.
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You can either get a new motherboard and install it, or you can get the board repair and pay less. If the GPU's voltage drops along this voltage rail, it stops working, resulting in the kernel panic, and sudden restart. This results in the frame buffer voltage rail dropping in voltage every once in a while. One of the decoupling capacitors on this voltage rail is a poly-tanalum capacitor, which isn't very reliable when subjected to many heat cycles. There is a voltage rail that supplies the frame-buffer, which acts as a short-term memory bank for the graphics processor.
Hey Jared, this is sadly a common problem with A1286 15" MacBook Pros from 2010 - I have an exact same MacBook Pro with the exact same problem :(Īnyway, the issue is most likely caused by a faulty capacitor on the motherboard. The character count and spam blocker of this website was quite the nuisance when trying to post and give adequate information about the problem I'm having. Thank you for your time and help in advance! I'm unfamiliar with the logic board issues. The temperature does not seem likely as the computer does not seem very warm via touch or when utilizing TG Pro or Coconut Battery. I've read several articles talking about overheating issues, logic board issues and other such problems, but not sure if these actually apply to my situation. I've never encountered this problem before, and not sure what action to take next. I have downloaded Coconut battery which gives the following stats: I have since reformatted the computer, and the problems persist. The computer recently started having problems approximately 2 months ago. I also replaced the original RAM 4 GB to 8 GB I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 250 GB SSD last christmas. Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB.
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and then will allow me to put in my password and restart. The sequence of events that most often occurs is the computer will crash without warning. Provided as much as the crash report as possible. com.apple extensions were not permitted as they were pegged as spam. Some of the information above regarding the. What can I try to make this situation go away? It occurs more often when running off of just battery supply, even with the charge at full. The computer has a nasty habit that has developed out of the blue where it shuts down and restarts whether it is running off of power supply or battery supply. Need some assistance with my Macbook Pro 15'' Mid 2010.