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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Macbook Pro 7,1 (Mid 2010), OSX 10.8 giving SOS code!
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<blockquote data-quote="johnodd4" data-source="post: 1604964" data-attributes="member: 331386"><p>yep get a diagnostic but you might need to know something about the 2010 macbook pro i do take it is the aluminum model correct??</p><p></p><p>if so i am sorry to say it is your logic board i have had to deal with 50 of these just this month alone you get beep codes or no codes no codes is when the main board in the model is completely dead this means all you hear is the hard drive and cd rom spin up thats it.</p><p></p><p>Now you have beep codes which is not good nor bad the beep codes can mean bad ram or bad hard drive which sounds bad but isn't if its ram just replace the ram and you are good to go if its not ram or the hard drive it is your graphics card that has failed.</p><p></p><p>in this model of macbook pro the Ati / and Nvidia chipsets where rigged into the macbook pros drive controller to help speed up graphics performance all would be well with this model if it where not for nvidia using a unstable graphics card gpu unit in this model when the nvidia fails it sends heat across the heat sink of the graphics processor to the main processor and takes them both out requiring a new logic board apple had a replacement plan in place to fix the problem with this model but no longer it stopped jan of 2013 sorry on that note.</p><p></p><p>However if its the ati unstable problem you might just need new ram the ati chipset in this model just took out ram when it causes a issue so ram might still save the machine</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnodd4, post: 1604964, member: 331386"] yep get a diagnostic but you might need to know something about the 2010 macbook pro i do take it is the aluminum model correct?? if so i am sorry to say it is your logic board i have had to deal with 50 of these just this month alone you get beep codes or no codes no codes is when the main board in the model is completely dead this means all you hear is the hard drive and cd rom spin up thats it. Now you have beep codes which is not good nor bad the beep codes can mean bad ram or bad hard drive which sounds bad but isn't if its ram just replace the ram and you are good to go if its not ram or the hard drive it is your graphics card that has failed. in this model of macbook pro the Ati / and Nvidia chipsets where rigged into the macbook pros drive controller to help speed up graphics performance all would be well with this model if it where not for nvidia using a unstable graphics card gpu unit in this model when the nvidia fails it sends heat across the heat sink of the graphics processor to the main processor and takes them both out requiring a new logic board apple had a replacement plan in place to fix the problem with this model but no longer it stopped jan of 2013 sorry on that note. However if its the ati unstable problem you might just need new ram the ati chipset in this model just took out ram when it causes a issue so ram might still save the machine [/QUOTE]
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Macbook Pro 7,1 (Mid 2010), OSX 10.8 giving SOS code!
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