Mid 2010 Macbook Pro GPU problems (reflow attempted)

[Domaaaas]

Hello everyone

Recently I got a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 13.3" for an absolutely good price, with 250GB HDD, 4GB of Ram and some kind of Core 2 Duo, that's all I know. I think this laptops' Nvidia GPU is partially broken. The hard drive is wiped, and the OS install DVD is inserted. These are the screens I get: http://imgur.com/a/OgR86 

1st image: Just after the chime
2nd image: After several seconds, apple logo appears with a rotating animation
3rd image: After the light blue screen, weird artifacts show up
4th image: After the artifacts, OS install windows shows up
5th image: Pressed enter, I think it manages to proceed the installation, but the screen is very glitchy.

Tried reflowing in the oven 2 times: First, the gpu only, second, the whole logic board. None of these attempts worked. Do You, guys, have any suggestions? Buy a cheap heatgun? Dissassemble the mac entirely ant sell the ram, hdd, cd-rom and the lcd? Thank You very much and sorry for my bad English  

[Firearm2112]

The 13" macbook pro's never had deticated GPUs to my knowledge, always used onboard graphics. I think its the screen, as it already has a huge crack on it

[Sousuke]

Hello everyone

Recently I got a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 13.3" for an absolutely good price, with 250GB HDD, 4GB of Ram and some kind of Core 2 Duo, that's all I know. I think this laptops' Nvidia GPU is partially broken. The hard drive is wiped, and the OS install DVD is inserted. These are the screens I get: http://imgur.com/a/OgR86 

1st image: Just after the chime

2nd image: After several seconds, apple logo appears with a rotating animation

3rd image: After the light blue screen, weird artifacts show up

4th image: After the artifacts, OS install windows shows up

5th image: Pressed enter, I think it manages to proceed the installation, but the screen is very glitchy.

Tried reflowing in the oven 2 times: First, the gpu only, second, the whole logic board. None of these attempts worked. Do You, guys, have any suggestions? Buy a cheap heatgun? Dissassemble the mac entirely ant sell the ram, hdd, cd-rom and the lcd? Thank You very much and sorry for my bad English  

 

Now my machine was an older system with the same issue with an ATi Radeon Card. It was a 2006 Macbook Pro, I used a heatgun on mine. Worked a treat. The only thing was that the right channel audio was damaged.

[Domaaaas]

The 13" macbook pro's never had deticated GPUs to my knowledge, always used onboard graphics. I think its the screen, as it already has a huge crack on it

 

The logic board had 2 seperate chips on it, 1 named "Nvidia" and the other named "Intel". The crack is just the glass only, the lcd is not damaged in any ways.

[Domaaaas]

Now my machine was an older system with the same issue with an ATi Radeon Card. It was a 2006 Macbook Pro, I used a heatgun on mine. Worked a treat. The only thing was that the right channel audio was damaged.

 

Byt why then the oven trick didn't work? I preheated the oven to 200 degrees Celsius, and shoved the logic board in for 10 minutes, then let it cool for 20 minutes. Will it work differently with a heatgun?

[Sousuke]

Byt why then the oven trick didn't work? I preheated the oven to 200 degrees Celsius, and shoved the logic board in for 10 minutes, then let it cool for 20 minutes. Will it work differently with a heatgun?

 

Perhaps the solder has a higher melting point perhaps, not sure.

[Domaaaas]

Perhaps the solder has a higher melting point perhaps, not sure.

 

But You are sure that the logic board needs a reflow?

[Sousuke]

But You are sure that the logic board needs a reflow?

 

It sounds like it I had the issue of a glitching mouse cursor.

[Domaaaas]

Anymore suggestions, guys? Thank You  

[bcredeur97]

too bad u cant change the kernel to disregard the GPU and just use onboard... then this would be a lot simpler...

 

at least u could use your computer...

[Domaaaas]

After a bit of tinkering I installed windows 8.1 on this mac, so far so good, a little little bit of lag, but eh, it's a 4 year old machine, I'm very pleased. Thank You, guys, for Your suggestions.