early 2008 macbook pro logic board replacement

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I have tried resetting PRAM/SMC, all dat obviously to no avail. I have no clue why these two things are connected. It was working IN Catalina with 2gb of RAM installed, and then once I installed more RAM - POOF - NO MORE BACKLIGHT. I am shocked that a 12 year old system can be so useable in 2019.

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There is full multi-touch gesture support with the trackpad and the Nvidia 8600Mgt makes all of the UI animations buttery smooth. Paired with the beautiful display and amazing speakers (seriously, these speakers rival the newest 15 inch pros - no joke.) Using this system has been an absolute pleasure for day to day tasks.

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I have no problem writing basic code, browsing the web, watching 1080p content, and making this Reddit post on the system. Knowing what I know now, these older Penryn MacBook Pro Systems are absolutely gorgeous in my opinion and honestly still can be used as daily use systems so long as your tasks are not too intensive. SATA I Kneecapping the Kingston SSD inside The PATA speeds on the other bay interface very well may have stopped the system from gaining any real speed benefits anyways. I ended up not being able to do RAID because of the hardware not recognizing issues, but oh well.

I attempted a RAID 0 and bought a second PATA to SATA drive caddy for the system, but I think there is either something wrong with that specific bus on the logic board or the connector, because it would not recognize any drive and even when the original disk drive was in it would provide power, but no data whatsoever. It still feels fast, just not super fast - apps take maybe a half second to second more to open than on my other SATA III SSD machines. As expected, the SATA SSD has done WONDERS for making this machine feel zippy, however it is still limited to those 1.5 Gigabit per second speeds as dictated by SATA I. Once on Catalina, I was able to run some benchmarks and take a look at what the real world usage would be like for this machine. I later updated this to 6GB (max for Penryn machines) Half way through, one of the RAM sticks went bad and I was forced to use 2gb of memory with the OS upgrades.

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With this new information - I made a usb ISO image of 10.6 and started to work my way up. Because Apple is Apple, The firmware on the system needs to be sequentially updated from the original OS all the way to your desired level. On top of this, the MacBook must have been in a time capsule because the firmware was so old on the system that there was no internet recovery as well.

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I purchased a basic 240gb SSD from Amazon not too concerned with speeds considering the system would come nowhere near saturating SATA III speeds anyways.īUT - APPLE MAKES ALL OF THIS A PAIN IN THE ASS.Īfter hours of trial and tribulation (and cryptic google searches on obscure forums from a decade ago) I was able to learn that my system would not simply boot into a newest patched version of macOS - no no nooo. Next, came actually booting the system into an OS. Minimal tiny scratches, perfect screen, even the little plastic bezel around the aluminum on the body and screen were perfectly intact.

When the system arrived, it was CLEAAANNNNN. It already had 4gb of ram and I was happy with running an older version of OS X as I had no idea how little support there actually was for anything in the 10.7-10.9 era anymore. My original plan was to slap an SSD in it and call it a day. I submitted an offer for $111 + the shipping

MacOS Catalina (Patched with DosDude patcher).

240GB SSD (Raid0 attempted - more on that below).

After a little research I jumped on the laptop and I am so glad I did! It was sold as 'Parts/Not Working' with no HDD and a faulty disk drive. The listing indicated that it was a top spec model with the LED Backlit High Resolution 1920x1200 Display, and it appeared to be in decent condition. I stole found a 2008 A1261 Penryn MacBook Pro off of Ebay for only about $130.

Early 2008 macbook pro logic board replacement