Macbook Pro NO VIDEO Repair!

**The Power Piece: A Critical Component in Your MacBook Pro**

You see your power right here, and this is your whole power piece. This pipe part right here plugs into... a little bit of a nuisance because if you forget and you go to put your board back in, you're like, "Ah, crap." You screw it all down, you know, take it all out again, pain, pain, pain.

**The Problem with Apple's Cooling System**

Here's the plane dilemma with Apple. See right here? Your GPU and CPU are right here. This is it. This little heat pipe is cooling both your CPU and your GPU. So, your video card in your MacBook Pro, and your actual processor, are cooled by this little piece.

I'm gonna be honest with you; I've done a lot of Apple repairs, and every single one of them has had an overheating issue. It just comes down to... user error, and they could be using it on their bed with the back vents blocked. Sure enough, you're going to kill your video card. But that's not the real world; that's not how these things are supposed to be used.

**The Overheating Issue**

This here right here is your GPU, and this is your CPU. So, the GPU right here at the furthest back is our culprit, or so we're hoping anyway, on this unit. I'm going to do a video reflow on it, and we're going to fire it back up with new compound. Hopefully, we'll have this thing back up and running.

**The Compound Issue**

This is exactly what I'm talking about; the compound on it... that's the stuff they use. It's hard to cool, and it doesn't work very well. The stuff that I will put on will stay liquefied at all times, which means it doesn't need a lot of heat to get it to liquify or solidify or start functioning.

**The Reflow Process**

Now that we have the board out, we're going to prep it and get ready for our reflow. Anyone uses a hair dryer for a reflow should get their head upside down; it doesn't work. From Man Tech, I have some special rise and resin... or flux or whatever you wish to call it.

This also has a special adhesive that once the heat sucks it in, it'll actually bond the weld much better than factory. So, I'm going to put that all along the edges here and take it over to the infrared station.

**Putting it Back Together**

So far, I've been lucky; I have never had to do a reball anyway. There's our paste put around the proc or the GPU, and that will pretty much disappear with the heat. So, what's happened here now too is... I've actually heated up the base so the board doesn't warp.

**The Final Check**

I'm putting the GPU temp at 175 degrees, and there we go. Now, I'm not going to bore you with the whole time; it just takes several minutes. I will skip and go back to putting the board back together because this will bore you... seeing the same old thing on repeat.

**The Test Run**

Hand away for a while, and let the board cool down. Let the chip cool off. Everything's nice and cool now. We're going to put some compound on this guy. Nice little coating; not too thick, because once if it's applied properly, it'll squish off to the sides.

**The Final Result**

We have it up and running... that is as simple as that, unfortunately. Without the infrared welder, I guess it doesn't make it as simple for regular home people. But this is how you fix a motherboard in a MacBook Pro.

**Thank You and Goodbye**

Thanks for watching guys. Please hit share, like, subscribe... all those goodies! If you're not subscribed, please don't hit it again and unsubscribe because that kind of sucks. Well, next time guys, it's game over; we'll run this for a lot longer and make sure it holds up. Send it back to the customer and make one person really happy; they won't have to buy a brand new Mac!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys welcome back to another episode of last game hunter today we're going to fix a MacBook Pro with no video so what happens when you turn it on you get the audio no indication of any video whatsoever no backlight no nothing which usually comes down to the GPU so that GPU is your video card in this case the video cards probably unseated itself solder wise we're going to take this apart infrared welled up GPU back together fire it back up and see if we have it working okay so for this of course you're gonna need some tools because this is mostly a torque base star whatever you wish to call it screw system that Mac uses and in this case I do have this kit I do have other kids to have it all but this is an Apple kit that's supposed to do it all so let's see well guys in this case I don't know if someone's replaced the screws or not but they're definitely the wrong screws and they're Phillips on this one that is really odd I think some Mac's might have used Phillips and then others use torque most of the ones I thought work on have used torque gives you your back screws you don't have to really remember this because your back screws are your long ones and everywhere else are your short ones I love it when the GPU is on top of the board just sometimes I don't have to take the board out if I can get proper hit on it but most cases with Apple the GPU is underneath and the board does have to come out and we're about to find that out right now there's your two fans there's your whole entire motherboard right here and the GPU is going to be either here or here I believe when I take it out we'll see but yeah so this whole entire board needs to come apart unfortunately one thing I hate working on our apples the battery torch now yeah so the motherboards in by Torx put the back panel wasn't you would think they would at least do the other way around and stop you from going inside but whatever with the video you have a flip-up tab that you want to make sure that you're actually flipping up before you pull and try to pull it to tab but be very careful these tabs tend to just bend and fall off real pain in the you-know-what personally I do not like the build of the Apple notebooks very much I find a very crammed and compact and you'll see why in my opinion the video actually died in these and it's mostly because of this cooling design there isn't a lot of room there isn't a lot of movement here I don't think it dissipates heat quick enough also the compounds used I will change to a silver compound because I find that the compounds that are usually used by factory are never as good as the stuff that you can add like an Arctic silver going to remove the cooling system or the fans first see it's actually pretty clean in there too so you constantly like in an in a normal PC a laptop like a Acer HP or Lenovo or whoever it doesn't matter if it's a good brand name or bad brand name one of the big things that you look for is dirt along these areas here and that would tell me that if it's clogged up I could see why it overheated in this case it's pretty clean so I don't know if anybody's taking it apart before me or not which I would hope they didn't because if anybody also attempted a reflow on this I'm gonna have a harder time making this work or making it hold now the fact that this is clean and the fact that I'm pretty certain that no one has opened it before would lead me to believe that this is just a poor cooling system but we're going to take it apart and find out if it has been reflow and if it has then it has been cleaned okay I'm going to lead towards it hasn't been cleaned and as we can see here this is a ring of dirt and I'll show you now it's gone right so that is dirt inside this unit same thing here there was a little bit but not enough for me to have could have been overlooked but clearly I don't think this was opened we're gonna find out for sure 100% but I'm now leaning towards that and there's your power right here so this is your whole power piece this pipe part right here plugs in here a little bit of a nuisance because if you forget and you go to put your board back in you're like ah crap you screw it all down you know take it all out again pain pain pain okay guys here's plane dilemma with Apple see right here your GPU and CPU are right here this is it this little heat pipe is cooling both your CPU and your GPU so your video card in your and your actual processor are cooled by this little piece and I'm gonna be honest with you I've done a lot of Apple and every single one of them just an overheating issue it just comes down to one it could have been user error and they could be using on a bed the back vents are blocked sure enough you're going to kill your video card but that just it just comes down to a couple things yes user error is probably one of the number one reasons they built these things to be laid down on the table and that's other tested and so on but it's not the real world and in the real world this is not exactly a good cooling system and this here right here is your GPU and this is your CPU so the GPU right here at the furthest back is our culprit is what we're hoping anyway on this unit I'm going to do a video reflow on it and we're going to fire it back up with new compound and hopefully we have this thing back up and running this is exactly what I'm talking about the compound on it that's the stuff they use it's hard what is it going to cool it doesn't work very well the stuff that I will put on will stay liquefied at all times which means it doesn't need to take a lot of heat to to get it to liquify or solidify or start functioning this is just absolute garbage okay so now that we have the board out we're going to prep it and get ready for our reflow now I'm just kidding anybody uses a hair dryer for a reflow should get the hairdryer upside the head it doesn't work so from a man tech I have some special rise and our resin or flux or whatever you wish to call it that also has a special adhesive that once the heat sucks it in it'll actually bond the weld much better than Factory so I'm going to put that all along the edges here and take it over to the infrared station so far I've been lucky and I have never had to do it reball anyway there's our paste put around the proc or the GPU and that will pretty much disappear with the heat so what's happened here now too is I've actually heated up the base so the board doesn't warp and I put it at 96 degrees and I'm putting the GPU temp at 175 there we go now I'm not gonna bore you with the whole time it just this actually takes several minutes I will skip and go back to putting the board back together because this will bore you seeing the same on white if you're noticing some trophies there on the side sorry about that that's when I used to race RC cars we used to be pretty heavy into it but those days are gone for me now hand away in a while and let the board cool down let the chip cool off everything's nice and cool now we're going to put some compound on this guy nice little coating not too thick because well once if it's applied proper it's gonna squish off to the sides anyway if the aluminum is actually making the proper contact it's supposed to make okay we'll be right back after we get it back together and let's fire it up we have it up and running that is as simple as that is unfortunately without the infrared welder I guess it doesn't make it as simple for regular home people but this is how you fix a motherboard in a MacBook Pro thanks for watching guys please hit share like subscribe all those goodies if you're not subscribed please don't hit it again and unsubscribe because that kind of sucks well next time guys it's game over gonna run this for a lot longer and make sure it holds send it back to the customer and make one person really happy they don't have to buy a brand new Machi guys welcome back to another episode of last game hunter today we're going to fix a MacBook Pro with no video so what happens when you turn it on you get the audio no indication of any video whatsoever no backlight no nothing which usually comes down to the GPU so that GPU is your video card in this case the video cards probably unseated itself solder wise we're going to take this apart infrared welled up GPU back together fire it back up and see if we have it working okay so for this of course you're gonna need some tools because this is mostly a torque base star whatever you wish to call it screw system that Mac uses and in this case I do have this kit I do have other kids to have it all but this is an Apple kit that's supposed to do it all so let's see well guys in this case I don't know if someone's replaced the screws or not but they're definitely the wrong screws and they're Phillips on this one that is really odd I think some Mac's might have used Phillips and then others use torque most of the ones I thought work on have used torque gives you your back screws you don't have to really remember this because your back screws are your long ones and everywhere else are your short ones I love it when the GPU is on top of the board just sometimes I don't have to take the board out if I can get proper hit on it but most cases with Apple the GPU is underneath and the board does have to come out and we're about to find that out right now there's your two fans there's your whole entire motherboard right here and the GPU is going to be either here or here I believe when I take it out we'll see but yeah so this whole entire board needs to come apart unfortunately one thing I hate working on our apples the battery torch now yeah so the motherboards in by Torx put the back panel wasn't you would think they would at least do the other way around and stop you from going inside but whatever with the video you have a flip-up tab that you want to make sure that you're actually flipping up before you pull and try to pull it to tab but be very careful these tabs tend to just bend and fall off real pain in the you-know-what personally I do not like the build of the Apple notebooks very much I find a very crammed and compact and you'll see why in my opinion the video actually died in these and it's mostly because of this cooling design there isn't a lot of room there isn't a lot of movement here I don't think it dissipates heat quick enough also the compounds used I will change to a silver compound because I find that the compounds that are usually used by factory are never as good as the stuff that you can add like an Arctic silver going to remove the cooling system or the fans first see it's actually pretty clean in there too so you constantly like in an in a normal PC a laptop like a Acer HP or Lenovo or whoever it doesn't matter if it's a good brand name or bad brand name one of the big things that you look for is dirt along these areas here and that would tell me that if it's clogged up I could see why it overheated in this case it's pretty clean so I don't know if anybody's taking it apart before me or not which I would hope they didn't because if anybody also attempted a reflow on this I'm gonna have a harder time making this work or making it hold now the fact that this is clean and the fact that I'm pretty certain that no one has opened it before would lead me to believe that this is just a poor cooling system but we're going to take it apart and find out if it has been reflow and if it has then it has been cleaned okay I'm going to lead towards it hasn't been cleaned and as we can see here this is a ring of dirt and I'll show you now it's gone right so that is dirt inside this unit same thing here there was a little bit but not enough for me to have could have been overlooked but clearly I don't think this was opened we're gonna find out for sure 100% but I'm now leaning towards that and there's your power right here so this is your whole power piece this pipe part right here plugs in here a little bit of a nuisance because if you forget and you go to put your board back in you're like ah crap you screw it all down you know take it all out again pain pain pain okay guys here's plane dilemma with Apple see right here your GPU and CPU are right here this is it this little heat pipe is cooling both your CPU and your GPU so your video card in your and your actual processor are cooled by this little piece and I'm gonna be honest with you I've done a lot of Apple and every single one of them just an overheating issue it just comes down to one it could have been user error and they could be using on a bed the back vents are blocked sure enough you're going to kill your video card but that just it just comes down to a couple things yes user error is probably one of the number one reasons they built these things to be laid down on the table and that's other tested and so on but it's not the real world and in the real world this is not exactly a good cooling system and this here right here is your GPU and this is your CPU so the GPU right here at the furthest back is our culprit is what we're hoping anyway on this unit I'm going to do a video reflow on it and we're going to fire it back up with new compound and hopefully we have this thing back up and running this is exactly what I'm talking about the compound on it that's the stuff they use it's hard what is it going to cool it doesn't work very well the stuff that I will put on will stay liquefied at all times which means it doesn't need to take a lot of heat to to get it to liquify or solidify or start functioning this is just absolute garbage okay so now that we have the board out we're going to prep it and get ready for our reflow now I'm just kidding anybody uses a hair dryer for a reflow should get the hairdryer upside the head it doesn't work so from a man tech I have some special rise and our resin or flux or whatever you wish to call it that also has a special adhesive that once the heat sucks it in it'll actually bond the weld much better than Factory so I'm going to put that all along the edges here and take it over to the infrared station so far I've been lucky and I have never had to do it reball anyway there's our paste put around the proc or the GPU and that will pretty much disappear with the heat so what's happened here now too is I've actually heated up the base so the board doesn't warp and I put it at 96 degrees and I'm putting the GPU temp at 175 there we go now I'm not gonna bore you with the whole time it just this actually takes several minutes I will skip and go back to putting the board back together because this will bore you seeing the same on white if you're noticing some trophies there on the side sorry about that that's when I used to race RC cars we used to be pretty heavy into it but those days are gone for me now hand away in a while and let the board cool down let the chip cool off everything's nice and cool now we're going to put some compound on this guy nice little coating not too thick because well once if it's applied proper it's gonna squish off to the sides anyway if the aluminum is actually making the proper contact it's supposed to make okay we'll be right back after we get it back together and let's fire it up we have it up and running that is as simple as that is unfortunately without the infrared welder I guess it doesn't make it as simple for regular home people but this is how you fix a motherboard in a MacBook Pro thanks for watching guys please hit share like subscribe all those goodies if you're not subscribed please don't hit it again and unsubscribe because that kind of sucks well next time guys it's game over gonna run this for a lot longer and make sure it holds send it back to the customer and make one person really happy they don't have to buy a brand new Mac