
If you are religious in any way, this is the moment to do your thing. Take out the device using an oven mitten (important!) and let it cool off. Stare nervously at your expensive piece of machinery slowly roasting, only breaking eye contact every 10-20 seconds to check your watch for the time. For a perfectly golden and crunchy crust make sure you leave it in there for precisely around 7 minutes. Shove the tray in a preheated oven at 170° Celsius.Place the Frankenstein’s-monster-robot on a baking tray. Take the logic board and place it on little legs made out of aluminum foil.You should be left with only the faulty component: the logic board. Take out all the screws and throw them in the same pile (for easier access later).

MACBOOK PRO MID 2007 LOGIC BOARD PC
Putting broken electronics in the oven and magically fixing them is not exactly a new concept for the PC overclocking crowd. Yes, I literally took the broken laptop and shoved it in a hot kitchen oven for what felt like an eternity.

Having tried every trick in the book, there was only one thing left to do: cook the Books.
MACBOOK PRO MID 2007 LOGIC BOARD MAC
Much hope was lost, when a combination of safe boots and PRAM resets resulted in what could only be described as the Mac equivalent of the Blue Screen Of Death.Įven after having spent the whole day scavenger-hunting through the Apple support site and reading pages upon pages of obscure forums with people having apparently similar but in reality completely unrelated problems, I didn’t give up. “Ok, let’s try it one more time buddy, come on, I know you can do it” I tried again, only to be presented by the inevitable gray apple logo, mockingly pointing at me, as if to say “this is what you get for fiddling with my insides”.

This time it got stuck in the “gray screen with slightly darker gray Apple logo phase”. Since I had an SSD, this process would only take a few moments… but not this time. Without a further thought, I pressed the power button and the computer promptly started booting up. Must have ran out of battery or something”. One late night I opened up my trusty MacBook Pro only to find it turned off.
