Recent content by jommoner

Hi! Sorry for not getting round to this; I removed the board yesterday to check the voltages, connected the charger, and it gave a flashing green light (solid green with super brief orange flashes). Connecting the battery resulted in a green light that went orange. I replaced the DC-in board for...

I think there is only one 17" Mid 2012; it is basically made from a 15" Mid-2012 and a 17" 2011 MBP. It is still an early prototype that I made but it works (the cooling is better too!). Interestingly, the brightness slider works on the motherboard from the 2011 (even with the discrete GPU fully...

Apple now only supports TB3 for eGPUs, having depracated past support; however I know TB1 can be used with a patch - I was wondering how the 'Thunderbolt' port itself was affected by disabling the discrete GPU (from a hardware perspective). I guess as long as the 13" unibody is supported, there...

A related but slightly off-topic question - not worthy of a new thread though; When the video port is lost by this repair, is that the standard video out, or is it the full Thunderbolt functionality (e.g. I was wondering if an eGPU could still be used with the appropriate hacks?) Also, the new...

So, I have a Macbook Pro mid-2012 13" i7 2.9GHz. I have downloaded the schematic and the boardview file. I bought this secondhand over a year ago; it is a nice little machine, it has a major dent next to the magsafe connector, and the bottom aluminium panel doesn't fit, because, near the corner...