Baked my Apple... or, reviving an utterly dead MBP

[mcbob]

My 2009 17" MacBook Pro died last week, cause unknown, diagnosis was a bad logic board. Well past warranty, insurance won't cover it, general story: "hah hah sucks to be me."

The Good Lord and the Internet somehow led me here:
http://russell.heistuman.com/2010/04/27/cooking-the-books-or-baking-my-macbook-pro-logic-board/

So I horked out the logic board and put it on a baking sheet just after my wife was done with some cinnamon rolls... 375F for 7.5 minutes.

Now I have a working(again) MacBook, an awesome wife, and fresh cinnamon rolls. Doesn't so much suck to be me.

Funny how things turn around. Hopefully this can help someone.


Supposedly the fix is temporary (~6 months to a year or until it overheats again) and I'd be silly to continue to rely on this as my sole machine, but it was a good impetus to finally upgrade and awfully nice that I still have a secondary computer for other business or family tasks.

 

[arniepix]

Glad you're not too hosed. Yet.

One of my mantras: Backup early, backup often.

I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup once a month or more, whether I need to or not. (hint: if you need to backup, its too late to do so)

 

[mcbob]

I've been doing regular backups since the late 90s... I reckon in could boot MacOS 8 (not 10.8) and relive college if I installed a PPC emulator (and if those CDs still work)