So who has Yosemite Installed? Whats your thoughts?

[vansmith]

Yes, yes it is.

Lisa, want to send some of that magic/luck this way? I'm still fighting to understand what's happening.

 

[RavingMac]

. . . I'm still fighting to understand what's happening.

I'm just glad that for once this is a fight I managed to stay out of (at least for now).

Once the dust settles I will be installing Yosemite, as I am confident the bugs will get worked out in fairly short order.
Till then, hope you and the others with issues get some quick relief.

 

[chscag]

C'mon Mike, look at all the fun you're missing out on. (You know the old saying... "Misery loves company")

 

[cwa107]

Do keep us posted on this if you help him. I would hate to blame an OS for this but like you said the timing sure is interesting! There is another I am helping in another thread here and since Yosemite everything is dying on him. I am going to search around and see if I can find more strange issues.

I'm waiting to hear back from him. He is convinced it's a bad logic board and set about doing a solder reflow in the oven <gulp>. The last I'd heard from him, he was baking his MacBook Pro motherboard in a 415 ºF oven for 7.5mins. He said nothing melted....

 

[cwa107]

It appears that I spoke too soon. The solder reflow evidently did the trick and the machine is back in business, surprisingly!

 

[vansmith]

I'm just glad that for once this is a fight I managed to stay out of (at least for now).

Nah, come on, it's fun over here!

C'mon Mike, look at all the fun you're missing out on. (You know the old saying... "Misery loves company")

See, chscag knows it's fun.

It appears that I spoke too soon. The solder reflow evidently did the trick and the machine is back in business, surprisingly!

I never would have guessed that this would work. Note to self: bake broken computers. Haha.

 

[lclev]

I'm waiting to hear back from him. He is convinced it's a bad logic board and set about doing a solder reflow in the oven <gulp>. The last I'd heard from him, he was baking his MacBook Pro motherboard in a 415 ºF oven for 7.5mins. He said nothing melted....

OMG! What a brave person..did he bake the whole thing or just the logic/motherboard?

I am assuming this baking allows the solder to reach the 370 degree melting point and hopefully refill in any areas of looseness??? Kinda random but it seems to have worked for him.

Lisa

 

[cwa107]

OMG! What a brave person..did he bake the whole thing or just the logic/motherboard?

I am assuming this baking allows the solder to reach the 370 degree melting point and hopefully refill in any areas of looseness??? Kinda random but it seems to have worked for him.

Lisa

It's a technique I've heard of before, but never personally tried. Apparently there is a YouTube video out there that demonstrates the procedure for this vintage of MacBook Pro (2008).

The logic board is removed, all heat sinks and fans are removed, all heatsink/thermal compound is removed, all paper labels are removed. You crumple up a few balls of aluminum foil to act as stand-offs, set them on a cookie tray. Place the board on top of the stand-offs and cover the whole thing with foil.

 

[cradom]

It works (sometimes) but you need to regulate the temp very closely. There are articles about it on Hack-A-Day.
Hackaday

 

[Slydude]

I'm just glad that for once this is a fight I managed to stay out of (at least for now).

Come on over to the cutting, or in this case bleeding, edge. All the cool kids are here. You know you want to try it.

 

[lclev]

Years ago I had an IBM-AT that I could not get to work and I needed it to desparately. My brother spent several hours re-soldered the board then washed it in my sink using regular dish detergent. He then put it in my oven to bake it dry. I think it was at 200 degrees but I am not sure it has been many moons ago. But it worked. I finally retired the computer because it became obsolete.

Lisa

 

[RavingMac]

To all trying to entice (or harass) me . . . I may give in and sacrifice my 2007 MBP to see how it goes. I mean installing Yosemite, not oven baking.

 

[vansmith]

Does your 07 MBP make the system requirement cut? If not, yeah, you're going to have a terrible time.

 

[RavingMac]

Does your 07 MBP make the system requirement cut? If not, yeah, you're going to have a terrible time.

Mid 2007 15 in MBP
6 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD

EDIT: I'm in the middle of the iOS 8.1 update. Will check my specs to see if I am Yosemite compatible in a bit

 

[dtravis7]

It appears that I spoke too soon. The solder reflow evidently did the trick and the machine is back in business, surprisingly!

Glad that worked. I know there are solder reflow machines but they are not cheap. I would cringe putting it in just a normal oven but hey, it's fixed!

 

[midway40]

I have heard of the oven trick too though I would be too timid to try it.

BUT, putting your iPhone in the microwave does NOT recharge the battery

 

[cradom]

PLEASE tell me you didn't actually try that?

 

[midway40]

LOL, give me a little credit. I laughed out loud when I first read about it and wondered how many fools fell for it. The oven thing reminded me of it and I had to joke about it.

Only things that go in my microwave is food.

 

[dtravis7]

LOL, give me a little credit. I laughed out loud when I first read about it and wondered how many fools fell for it. The oven thing reminded me of it and I had to joke about it.

Only things that go in my microwave is food.

Motherboard A la Mode!

I thought the same thing when I read the post! Food!

I wonder if some people out there would fall for what I have told people jokingly and plug 120V into the Lightning port to charge! Grin

 

[chas_m]

Van,

After turning off the LCD font smoothing for a day, I think that should fix your "blurry" issues. It will probably be my recommendation for non-Retina monitors going forward.