Q: Cooking the MacBook Pro Logic Board

I have seen a couple of post regarding this procedure.  Do a search of the discussions.  I suppose it is worth a try if there are no other options, but I still remain skeptical.

Ciao..

Glad to hear your newly baked/roasted Macbook Pro works for you.

Well done - now I know who to send a message to if I need my logicboard baked/roasted.

cheers.

Solder will start melting at about 360 f so that your temperature increase was apparently the proper action.  Just this morning I had a discussion this very subject and I now am somewhat less skeptical than when  I first answered you.  In the end, results count.  I was told that first thermal paste should be removed prior the operation and the reapplied after completion of the 'meltdown'. 

Good luck.

Ciao.

Hi,

Have many people had any luck getting their faulty 2008 macbook Pro repaired or replaced recently.
Two months ago my 2008 Macbook Pro's screen started to freeze and was garbled. I took it to a local authorized repair centre who said that they ran a test and it would cost €700.00 to replace the logic board.
I rang Apple to say that I had heard there was a known issue with these Mac's. They said that they would ring me back.
A Customer service agent called me back to say that there Was an issue with some graphics cards but my fault was the logic board.
I said that it would cost me €700.00 to repair it, and it was more or less making the device beyond econimical repair.
I sent a few emails to Apple customer service hoping for a positive result.
I asked that I hoped Apple would either:

Cover the cost of the known reapir.
Apple collect the laptop and themselves check the fault.

Apple partially pay towards the repair.
Apple responded by saying that "as you mentioned You could have the machine checked somewhere else". ( Note I didnt request that I check it somewhere else).

A lot of these "high end" machines were sold with faulty components. I find it a sad day that as someone who has macbook pro, imac, ipad and has has three iphone to threat their customers like this is a let down.

I am taking Apple to the small claims court as a common sense is not prevailing this time.
Thank you Apple.

I just wanted to add, I tried this on my 2007 Macbook Pro today and it totally worked. I was so impressed. I used 375 degrees for 7.5 minutes. I also added new thermal paste.

I had a previous issues where I was getting a wavy distortion in dark areas of the screen. This has now been fixed as well

Thanks for all the suggestions.

As a last resort, I did the bake method again (did it once before) and it came back again.

I doubt this is going to last very long, but at least it's once again functioning.

I'm wondering if there is anywhere that can proffessionally resolder the GPU to the board to fix it properly.

I did it today to with my 2 years and 9 months old 17" MACBook Pro early 2011 and the AMD video card came back to life. :-)

I baked the Logic Board on 180 degree for 7.5 minutes in a pre heated oven. A few points before you start this procedure:

Remove all Cooling Pasta with Aceton and lots of swabs.

Make the print dust free with compressed air.

Create a few small holders from aluminium foil so that the print can rest on it. I placed the holder equal with the screw holes on the outer-site (4 pieces).

The oven should have a wel circulated air flow.

You should have a technical background how to unmount and mount electronic stuff properly.

Proper Apple repair Tools.

An Apple repair manual that covers the model in question.

Google example cases (Logic Board Oven).

Some luck. ;-)

Peter.   

I did this last night with my early 2011 15" Macbook Pro.

I placed the MLB GPU side down, elevated on  aluminum foil balls and positioned two balls directly beneath the exposed GPU chips.

Then baked @ 375F for 7.5 minutes in a pre-heated convection oven.

I'll be damned - it worked!

bye-bye grey screen...

Hello I have baked my MBPro and it seems that it is functioning ok exept from the fact that the display is not clear enough in high resolution and it changes colors. To be honest I didn't follow the guidance precisely  (as it has to do with the temperature degrees). I don't know if it is something simple that has been damaged and can be fixed or not but as I said  apart from that everything else seems to function properly I left it powered on for three days with enough programmas opened plus i played batman asylum (heavy game) enough videos on YouTube and it did not crash as it had been done before baking.

That's 180C not 180F?

What do you do with the cooling pasta after? Garlic and sundried tomato come to mind.

this is amazing. i tried on my macbook pro 2012 13" and it worked like charm. i was bit suspicious so i shoot a video before i start doing it. it worked so i've uploaded A video on YouTube. Here is the link if you're interested. https://youtu.be/lCHTgYkBXoY