MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Early 2011 Logic Board Replacement

Remove the following ten screws:

Three 14.4 mm Phillips #00 screws

Three 3.5 mm Phillips #00 screws

Four 3.5 mm shouldered Phillips #00 screws

Use your fingers to pry the lower case away from the body of the MacBook near the vent.

Remove the lower case.

Use the edge of a spudger to pry the battery connector upwards from its socket on the logic board.

Bend the battery cable slightly away from its socket on the logic board so it does not accidentally connect itself while you work.

Use the edge of a spudger to gently pry the fan connector up and out of its socket on the logic board.

Remove the following three screws securing the fan to the logic board:

One 7.2 mm T6 Torx screw

Two 5.3 mm T6 Torx screws

Lift the fan out of its recess in the logic board, minding its cable that may get caught.

Use the tip of a spudger to pull the right speaker/subwoofer cable out from under the retaining finger molded into the upper case.

Pull the right speaker/subwoofer cable upward to lift the connector out of its socket on the logic board.

Disconnect the camera cable from the logic board.

Disconnect the following four cables:

AirPort/Bluetooth cable

Optical drive cable

Hard drive cable

Trackpad cable

Use your fingernail to flip up the retaining flap on the keyboard ribbon cable ZIF socket.

Use the tip of a spudger to pull the keyboard ribbon cable out of its socket.

If present, remove the small strip of black tape covering the keyboard backlight cable socket.

Use the tip of a spudger or your fingernail to flip up the retaining flap on the keyboard backlight ribbon cable ZIF socket.

Pull the keyboard backlight ribbon cable out of its socket.

Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the sleep sensor/battery indicator connector up from its socket on the logic board.

Grab the plastic pull tab secured to the display data cable lock and rotate it toward the DC-In side of the computer.

Pull the display data cable straight out of its socket on the logic board.

Remove the following nine screws:

Five 3.6 mm T6 Torx screws

Two 4.3 mm T6 Torx screws

Two 7.2 mm T6 Torx screws

Five 3.0 mm T6 screws

Two 3.6 mm T6 screws

Two 6.7 mm T6 screws

Remove the following two screws:

One 8.6 mm Phillips screw

One 5.5 mm Phillips screw

Remove the display data cable retainer from the upper case.

Use the tip of a spudger to gently peel the microphone off the adhesive securing it to the upper case.

Minding the many connectors near its edges, lift the logic board from the end nearest the optical drive.

Without flexing the board, maneuver it out of the upper case, minding the flexible connection to the DC-In board that may get caught in the upper case.

Remove the logic board.

De-route the microphone cable from its slot molded into the left speaker enclosure.

Remove the small piece of black tape covering the left speaker connector.

Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the left speaker connector up from its socket on the logic board.

Carefully pry the left speaker off the foam adhesive securing it to the logic board.

Remove the left speaker.

Remove the piece of black tape covering the microphone connector.

Pull the microphone cable upward to lift its connector out of the socket on the logic board.

Remove the microphone.

Pull the MagSafe DC-In board cable toward the heat sink to disconnect it from the logic board.

Remove the DC-In board.

Remove the three 8.4 mm #1 Phillips screws securing the heat sink to the logic board.

Carefully remove the heat sink from the processor.

Pull the two RAM retaining arms away from the center of the RAM chip.

Pull the RAM stick out of its socket.

Logic board remains.