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**
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