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How to stop buying a faulty MacBook Pro i5 2010 15 inch?
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<blockquote data-quote="Audit13" data-source="post: 1768074" data-attributes="member: 394746"><p>The problem with the 15" 2010 MBP is not the graphics card but a single capacitor that was used on the motherboard. More specifically, it is capacitor c9560. The capacitor can/will eventually fail and cause sudden grey screens or kernel panics when the MBP switches from using Intel integrated graphics to the nVidia gpu. Google MBP 2010 capacitor c9560 for more information.</p><p></p><p>A good way to test the machine would be to run the Cinebench r15 benchmark test. If the capacitor is bad, the test will fail before it even starts and the machine will kennel panic and restart.</p><p></p><p>I also have a 2010 15.4" MBP and had the capacitor replaced with a more robust capacitor than the original and it has been working perfectly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Audit13, post: 1768074, member: 394746"] The problem with the 15" 2010 MBP is not the graphics card but a single capacitor that was used on the motherboard. More specifically, it is capacitor c9560. The capacitor can/will eventually fail and cause sudden grey screens or kernel panics when the MBP switches from using Intel integrated graphics to the nVidia gpu. Google MBP 2010 capacitor c9560 for more information. A good way to test the machine would be to run the Cinebench r15 benchmark test. If the capacitor is bad, the test will fail before it even starts and the machine will kennel panic and restart. I also have a 2010 15.4" MBP and had the capacitor replaced with a more robust capacitor than the original and it has been working perfectly. [/QUOTE]
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