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My lovely wife recently dropped my MacBook on carpeted floor. We found out as it was dying that the charger was not working. No light on the magsafe. The computer didn't even know I had plugged anything into it. So it died.
I took it to the Apple Genius who said it was definitely the logic board and they would fix that and anything else for 320 bucks. I decided to try to fix it myself. Looking on these forums I found out that there is a magsafe logic board and a main logic board so I bought a 30 dollar magsafe logic board to give it a try. I broke it down and replaced the board then I got really confused...
After I hooked everything back up I plugged in the charger and viola! We have power! But no light on my magsafe... Hmmmm. The mouse was slow and glitchy and the computer took forever to start up. When it did no menu bar on the top of the screen could be found. I decided to try a SMC and PRAM reset, but once I shut it down it wouldn't do anything at all... I tried it again this morning and it did the same thing except now it shut down without me doing anything before I could even log in. Any thoughts?
I took it to the Apple Genius who said it was definitely the logic board and they would fix that and anything else for 320 bucks. I decided to try to fix it myself. Looking on these forums I found out that there is a magsafe logic board and a main logic board so I bought a 30 dollar magsafe logic board to give it a try. I broke it down and replaced the board then I got really confused...
After I hooked everything back up I plugged in the charger and viola! We have power! But no light on my magsafe... Hmmmm. The mouse was slow and glitchy and the computer took forever to start up. When it did no menu bar on the top of the screen could be found. I decided to try a SMC and PRAM reset, but once I shut it down it wouldn't do anything at all... I tried it again this morning and it did the same thing except now it shut down without me doing anything before I could even log in. Any thoughts?