Before I replaced my screen following these instructions, I knew the problem was the ribbon cable that I'd damaged trying to remove the Macbook Pro strip at the bottom of the screen - so I knew the computer was fine.
I followed these directions to the letter, but ended up with a computer that wouldn't power up nor charge by the end of the job.
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After taking the computer to a professional, I learned that I'd unknowingly blown a number of chips on the logic board because I didn't adequately ground myself before doing the job. So, I saved a couple hundred bucks replacing the screen myself, but had pay hundreds more to get the chips replaced at a "non Apple certified" repair shop, and the "authorized shop in town was just going to send it back to the Mothership to get the job done cheap and easy for the flat Apple fee.
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After taking the computer to a professional, I learned that I'd unknowingly blown a number of chips on the logic board because I didn't adequately ground myself before doing the job. So, I saved a couple hundred bucks replacing the screen myself, but had pay hundreds more to get the chips replaced at a "non Apple certified" repair shop, and the "authorized" shop in town was just going to send it back to the Mothership to get the job done cheap and easy for the flat Apple fee.
The local shop did the work and fixed the problem, and was able to maintain all the data on my hard drive. Apple was going blank it out 100%.
So, lesson here is to ensure you ground yourself before doing any job you see here in iFixit.
Before I replaced my screen following these instructions, I knew the problem was the ribbon cable that I'd damaged trying to remove the Macbook Pro strip at the bottom of the screen - so I knew the computer was fine.
-
I followed these directions to the letter, but ended up with a computer that wouldn't power up nor charge buy the end of the job.
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I followed these directions to the letter, but ended up with a computer that wouldn't power up nor charge by the end of the job.
After taking the computer to a professional, I learned that I'd unknowingly blown a number of chips on the logic board because I didn't adequately ground myself before doing the job. So, I saved a couple hundred bucks replacing the screen myself, but had pay hundreds more to get the chips replaced at a "non Apple certified" repair shop, and the "authorized shop in town was just going to send it back to the Mothership to get the job done cheap and easy for the flat Apple fee.
The local shop did the work and fixed the problem, and was able to maintain all the data on my hard drive. Apple was going blank it out 100%.
So, lesson here is to ensure you ground yourself before doing any job you see here in iFixit.
Before I replaced my screen following these instructions, I knew the problem was the ribbon cable that I'd damaged trying to remove the Macbook Pro strip at the bottom of the screen - so I knew the computer was fine.
I followed these directions to the letter, but ended up with a computer that wouldn't power up nor charge buy the end of the job.
After taking the computer to a professional, I learned that I'd unknowingly blown a number of chips on the logic board because I didn't adequately ground myself before doing the job. So, I saved a couple hundred bucks replacing the screen myself, but had pay hundreds more to get the chips replaced at a "non Apple certified" repair shop, and the "authorized shop in town was just going to send it back to the Mothership to get the job done cheap and easy for the flat Apple fee.
The local shop did the work and fixed the problem, and was able to maintain all the data on my hard drive. Apple was going blank it out 100%.
So, lesson here is to ensure you ground yourself before doing any job you see here in iFixit.