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It was a Chinese cheapo station here belongs to a friend of a friend. So you think it might have burnt the CPU? I'll look for a mem slot tester.
I'm not familar with CPU replacement on these macbooks. I also dont see any for sale using the part number off this board. Is this a bad avenue to go...
hmm one stick at a time and one slot at a time, get the same beeps...
using this ram: http://www.corsair.com/en/corsair-memory-16gb-2-x-8gb-ddr3-sodimm-memory-cmso16gx3m2a1333c9
Well I put it back together and in its case, and it turns on, I get a 3 beep and no screen or chime.. I tried reseating the ram in various ways, didn't seem to help
both the GPU and CPU(and only those two) get hot enough to burn my finger within a few seconds of being on. Can you guys think of a power rail that is shared between the two that could be shorted?
Thanks Lewis. The board starting doing what it is doing now before I removed the old 216-0810005 and put the new one on with the rework station. My hope was the problem was related as the GPU was going south, but it seems the problem isn't that. Now once I get it to boot if there are ANY video...
PPVCORE_S0_CPU = 1.09 volts before it overheats and shuts down
The computer was doing the usual overheating and shutdown and occasional pinkish vertical lines...so I knew it was getting time to replace the GPU.
Help me fix my wifes A-1297 that has green light on charger, fan spin for about 5 seconds, then it shutsdown, the CPU and GPU get very hot very quick. I changed out the 216-0810005 GPU with a "new" one I got from china, but of course same issue. Cant seem to find a short to ground but its...