What Kind Of Thermal Paste For Mac Pro 2010
April 27, 2010 by Filed under:,, Well, it’s taken me a little while to get this post up—not to mention the fact that its taken me a long while to get any posts up—but I thought this one was worth it just as an encouragement for anyone else who might be dealing with a fried MacBook Pro logic board that is out of the AppleCare warranty coverage. I also needed to get this post up before I forgot most of the details. As a little background, I put my MBP (17″ 2.5GHz-early 2008, Model A1261 to be exact for you that are searching) to sleep by closing it up for the night, which I’ve done for the past 2+ years with no problems. The next morning I noticed that the glowing power light on the latch release was off and thought it strange and then went to open and wake it and nothing happened. After futilely trying to wake it by varying degrees of banging on random keys and quickly pressing the power button I waited several minutes before I committed to powering it down. After powering it down, I tried to start it back up.
While I could hear the hard drive spin up and the optical drive go through its start-up whirrings, there was no start-up chime and no effort to display anything on screen. I tried all the start-up key combinations to start in safe-mode, reset PRAM, start diagnosis—nothing worked. Tried to insert original system install disk and boot from that, all to no avail.
Earlier MacBook Pro models (2009-2010) have a single heat sink covering both the CPU and GPU chips (like in my example). Newer models (2011-2012) have separated heat sinks or only one CPU heat sink. When the motherboard is out, turn it upside down and remove spring. Hi Kerry, I bought my 13” MacBook Pro in mid 2010. I have since pushed it to the limit by upgrading in phases. So, the RAM is 8 GB, swapped the optical drive with the HDD and installed an SSD. Mac Pro (Mid 2010) Mac Pro (Mid 2012) Mac Pro Server (Mid 2010) Xserve Xserve (Early 2008) Xserve (Early 2009) Xserve (Late 2006) Xserve G5; Xserve G5 (January 2005). Paste, Thermal, Pkg. Price: $19.00. Click to enlarge. Pictures may not represent the actual product. Manufacturer Part Number: 922-4757. 60 day warranty included. Home; Macbook MacBook (12-inch, Retina, Early 2015) MacBook (12-inch, Retina, Early 2016) MacBook (12-inch, Retina, Mid 2017) MacBook (13-inch Early 2008).
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After going through the Apple Support boards, I could not determine a culprit and since there are no Apple Stores closer than the 330 miles to Seattle yet (soon in Spokane I hear), I resorted to taking my system to the only certified Apple Repair shop in Spokane. We were hoping that it would fall under the Nvidia Graphics chip issue so that Apple would cover the replacement (note to self: on future MacBook Pro purchases: Get the full three-year AppleCare coverage!). Since the system would not even get past the initial boot phases, there was no way to even diagnose any other problems. Which AppleCare concluded that it would not fall under the Nvidia replacement program. Which that meant it would be in the neighborhood of $1000-1200 to replace logic board ($800 logic board + labor)—which is not much less than the $1200-1400 my system in good condition was going for on ebay. I’ve since gathered the necessary courage (and tools) to do it myself, so I could save the labor charges in the future. I also found a resource that I might consider as well if I had to face the issue of replacing the logic board again; claims they can replace my model logic board with a refurb for $450.
Maybe next time I was faced with trying to sell the dead MBP on Craigslist or ebay whole for $600 or try to recover more by dismantling it out and selling the parts on ebay and maybe be able to make up to $800. I determined that the time and effort involved in managing that many auctions wasn’t worth it and posted it on Craigslist. I got exactly two calls on it—one by one of the techs at the shop who diagnosed it originally to ask if I’d ruled-out the Nvidia issue (doh!) and the other by a guy who was tempted to buy it to try to fix it, but just didn’t have the time—he asked if I had considered “baking the logic board”. He quickly countered my skepticism with a plea to Google the term and that I’d find a plethora of advice on how to do it. (Update: when I wrote this, I couldn’t find the contact info for him but just recently found it. Here’s his link: ) So I did and he was right-there’s a bunch of crazy gamers out there resurrecting dead graphics cards, Xboxes and logic boards.
Yes, they are used interchangeably and people generally accept both. In the real world?
