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    Posted: 19 September 2020 at 2:27pm
Lev, look up Luis Rossman on youtube. If the idea of messing about with it at SMD level sounds like fun, he'll have all the info you'd need
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Originally posted by djeddie djeddie wrote:

Does the Mac run off the mains PSU without the battery being installed?


Nope.
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Does the Mac run off the mains PSU without the battery being installed?
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Originally posted by djeddie djeddie wrote:

And if the battery hasn't been changed already, I'd change that. Apple don't do one any more that will fit, so it will have to be an OEM of some descript.


Non Apple repair shop tried fixing machine, no success.

Something wrong with charging circuit on mainboard.

Put in charged working battery, machine boots, wont't charge battery, then knackers battery.

Advertised machine on FB Marketplace, keep getting contacted by FB numpsies, not reading add, thinking they are getting working I5 2012 MBP for £120.Confused

Taken ad down, problem is new mainboard fitting, will cost more than price of used DELL I5 7450, which is very sexy and capable machine.
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Dunno what you guys are doing but all my macs are still working (going back to Titanium powerbook), whereas windows machines just decide to die on me. My beautiful 2018 top spec XPS15 just stopped working a year in. It's been back to Dell 3 times now, and has supposedly been replaced and still has issus with it swapping between graphics cards continuously. Serves me right for buying a laptop just cos it looked nice LOL 
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And if the battery hasn't been changed already, I'd change that. Apple don't do one any more that will fit, so it will have to be an OEM of some descript.
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Have you tried a PRAM and SMC reset? 
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I have a 2007 MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo, 2.2. Battery life is useless...pretty much get about 45 mins if your lucky. Main problem has been the graphics chip but after I discovered the " cook your Macbook " trick it gets a visit to the oven about once a year and we're back up and running.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqjeKqWbTg4&ab_channel=Tuts%2BComputerSkills


Using it as my daughters home learning comp' and it works really well for all the online video stuff but as it's running OSX El Capitan way back I can't get Zoom installed on it....

Cost me $50 3 years ago.....

I have a Windows Surface Pro as my main device... wouldn't swap it for anything else....!

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Originally posted by levyte357- levyte357- wrote:

...as it does look good, when you pull out MBP on the train. LOL

Bloody poser!!!LOL

But yep, static is a problem. I've always worn my earth strap for 'puter work.
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Originally posted by djeddie djeddie wrote:

May some dumb, but are the connector of the power lead and the port on the side of the MBP clean? Also, what's the condition of the cable near the connector plug? They're pretty fragile. Mine's still as good as the day I bought it... step-daughters 2012 MBP, however, has had to have me get the soldering iron out twice now.

There are loads of YouTube vids on charging faults on MBP's... best thing I found was not to just watch (and believe) just one, watch a few and you'll suss it. Like I said, apart from the HDD failure, I've never had to repair mine but have done repairs for family etc and YT was they way I did it.


Done all that mate, was working fine, problems started when I started interchanging batteries with a problematic machine.

I did hear MBP logic boards are extremely sensitive to static, but I've been building PCs since '88, and never lost a board, or memory, or CPU to this.

Gonna have to bite bullet, and get machine repaired, as it does look good, when you pull out MBP on the train. LOL


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May some dumb, but are the connector of the power lead and the port on the side of the MBP clean? Also, what's the condition of the cable near the connector plug? They're pretty fragile. Mine's still as good as the day I bought it... step-daughters 2012 MBP, however, has had to have me get the soldering iron out twice now.

There are loads of YouTube vids on charging faults on MBP's... best thing I found was not to just watch (and believe) just one, watch a few and you'll suss it. Like I said, apart from the HDD failure, I've never had to repair mine but have done repairs for family etc and YT was they way I did it.
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Originally posted by djeddie djeddie wrote:

Anyway, batteries are a nightmare on Macs; some run at very slightly different voltages, some have different pin-outs on the flylead etc etc. So by getting one from a different model will invariably do damage. I know when I replaced my battery I had to make sure it was for my model, the one from a few months earlier and the one from a few months later would not fit and work. You can only be sure by making sure the 'A' number is correct in the model number. On an MBP it's shown on the base, near the rear in small writing. Mine's an A1278, btw.

Just took another look at my el cheapo MBP, did a serial no search using:

https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup

And verified it is an A1278, even though 2009.

So my £120 MBP 2009, won't charge battery, won't come on even with mains attached.

Will take it to Mac repair dude, and if diagnosed fix is > £50... Ermm
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