We offer a 6 Month Warranty covering the work we carry out only. If you want to go ahead please try our online booking system, email or call us. Our online repair portal will keep you updated with pics and diagnostic information throughout the repair process. The issue sometimes causes display artifacts as you see above, but it can also cause kernel panics with a sudden restart, screen going black during use, and a few. Above is a picture of a 2010 MacBook Pro with a graphics chip issue. If you drop it off a day before the next batch is worked on for example we should have it ready to collect in 2 -3 days once it has been tested fully. A1286 MacBook Graphics Issue (UPDATED 2021) November 9, 2021. We tend to do these in batches every 2 weeks.
If you are still running a slow 'spinning' hard disk we can combine this repair with an SSD upgrade and offer a deal for both at once. This a 2008-2010 Component level repair and so we charge £179.00 inc VAT We remove the faulty capacitors and extend the solder pads on the logic board allowing us to mount larger, more modern capacitors which are much more reliable. This is a MacBook Pro 15' Unibody 2.5GHz replacement Logic Board for the Late 2011 model.
and were mainly used as a compromise to free up space between components. The instability is caused by failing capacitors which either perform less efficiently in their old age or even partially short and cause a high resistance. More specifically the Frame Buffer Power Rail which switches power states depending on how much power is required by the GPU.
Its actually caused by one of the power rails to the GPU becoming unstable. Unlike the 2011 graphics fault, the 2010's issue is not actually with the graphics chip (GPU) itself. If your 2010 Model has started randomly restarting with Kernel Panics or is suffering from graphical anomalies its most probably suffering from a graphics issue. These older MacBooks are getting long in the tooth but add 8GB and an SSD Upgrade and they are a surprisingly capable machine. MacBook Pro 15 Inch 2010 A1286 Graphics Repair