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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
MacBook Pro late 2011 pink screen and lines, won’t boot
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1790287" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>I saw a video on Youtube that claimed the issue was not with the GPU or necessarily the solder, but a capacitor on the board. The narrator walked through micro-soldering a replacement cap on the board and showed that the GPU issue was completely solved by that. You might try searching for GPU and capacitor or you can watch this video (Language alert, he's a potty-mouth) about how to replace the cap. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4R_LvDhJb4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4R_LvDhJb4</a> The guy also has another video from earlier where he did more surgery on the board to scrape it, but as this video says, that's not really needed with the new cap he's using in the later video. Not for the faint of heart, but if you know a micro-solderer you know...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1790287, member: 396914"] I saw a video on Youtube that claimed the issue was not with the GPU or necessarily the solder, but a capacitor on the board. The narrator walked through micro-soldering a replacement cap on the board and showed that the GPU issue was completely solved by that. You might try searching for GPU and capacitor or you can watch this video (Language alert, he's a potty-mouth) about how to replace the cap. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4R_LvDhJb4[/url] The guy also has another video from earlier where he did more surgery on the board to scrape it, but as this video says, that's not really needed with the new cap he's using in the later video. Not for the faint of heart, but if you know a micro-solderer you know... [/QUOTE]
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