Battery, HD, Logic Board

In less than 3 years I had to change the Logic Board, HD and battery, and still not working OK. Is there many people like me?

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My computer has been seen at Genius bar 6 times for freezing up, reloaded all original settings and even went to the apple shop where they replaced the battery and logic board. Still freezes after I try to reload iTunes stuff and app stuff from apple

my computer has been seen at Genius bar 6 times for freezing up, reloaded all original settings, all of their diagnostics, and they even sent it to the apple shop where they replaced the battery and logic board. Still freezes after I try to reload iTunes stuff and app stuff from apple, especially iPhoto which is seems to refuse to load and then begins freezing up all over again. Anyone else have this problem. Other than this, I have had absolutely no problems with this computer. Now, it's a file of junk.

Hi Ronald ...
Have you checked lately to see how much free space there is on the disk? Especially since iPhoto freezes at launch ...
Click your Apple menu icon top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage
Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.
And make sure the OS X software is up to date.
Click the Apple  top left in your screen.
From the drop down menu click: Software Update
If you have anti virus software installed or are using third party Mac cleaning utiliites, that may be part and parcel of the your problems.

2007 15 inch MacBook Pro With Bad Battery, Bad Logic Board, Unreliable USB Ports - Good News Story?

I'm posting this to put it out there just in case someone else has had similar experiences. My MBP is a 2007 with the Intel Core 2 Duo 2.15 GHz processor running 10.6.8. I've had it since 2009, and it has been a flawless machine for me until recently.
In the last two weeks, the mouse would no longer respond to touch - it felt mushy instead of clicking. The machine also was extremely sensitive to any touch on the top of the computer. Lastly, and most frustratingly, the USB ports would randomly stop working upon waking the computer up. I use it in clamshell mode a lot, with a mac keyboard and a kensington turbo mouse. Often, the mouse would not work upon waking the computer up. Rebooting was the only solution and I was doing a lot of rebooting. This is my everything computer - work and personal - so I wanted someone to look at it.
I took it into a local business that specializes in Mac repair since it was vintage. After a day, the tech called me and said that the battery was split and that my other issues were probably logic board problems, and the logic board would be hard to find and expensive to replace. He said I might be able to use it without the battery, but that obviously would be a pain. The tech felt such pity for me that he did not even charge me the diagnostic fee.
I tried using it without the battery and the machine was extremely jittery in its response, plus the mouse button would still not work. I put the bad, split battery back in, and it did respond better (though not the mouse). I have just enough knowledge to know that electronics can behave very strangely when their batteries are bad and this one was especially bad. Against the tech's advice, I spent $69 for an Anker replacement battery from Amazon. I put it in, and all of my problems have gone away - including the mouse which now clicks just like it did 5 years ago when I bought it. It might be total coincidence, and I'm certainly not saying to anyone that if you have similar issues with your older, but much beloved MBP, that this will do the trick, but I did want to get this out there because $69 for a new battery is a lot better than >$1200 for a new machine (if you do not currently have or want to spend the money).
I do a weekly time machine backup and I will be really sad when this computer finally gives up the ghost, but since I've gotten a lot of good information from these forums, I wanted to pass this information along in the hope that it might help someone in the community. The two Steves have my undying admiration and respect.

I'm posting this to put it out there just in case someone else has had similar experiences. My MBP is a 2007 with the Intel Core 2 Duo 2.15 GHz processor running 10.6.8. I've had it since 2009, and it has been a flawless machine for me until recently.
In the last two weeks, the mouse would no longer respond to touch - it felt mushy instead of clicking. The machine also was extremely sensitive to any touch on the top of the computer. Lastly, and most frustratingly, the USB ports would randomly stop working upon waking the computer up. I use it in clamshell mode a lot, with a mac keyboard and a kensington turbo mouse. Often, the mouse would not work upon waking the computer up. Rebooting was the only solution and I was doing a lot of rebooting. This is my everything computer - work and personal - so I wanted someone to look at it.
I took it into a local business that specializes in Mac repair since it was vintage. After a day, the tech called me and said that the battery was split and that my other issues were probably logic board problems, and the logic board would be hard to find and expensive to replace. He said I might be able to use it without the battery, but that obviously would be a pain. The tech felt such pity for me that he did not even charge me the diagnostic fee.
I tried using it without the battery and the machine was extremely jittery in its response, plus the mouse button would still not work. I put the bad, split battery back in, and it did respond better (though not the mouse). I have just enough knowledge to know that electronics can behave very strangely when their batteries are bad and this one was especially bad. Against the tech's advice, I spent $69 for an Anker replacement battery from Amazon. I put it in, and all of my problems have gone away - including the mouse which now clicks just like it did 5 years ago when I bought it. It might be total coincidence, and I'm certainly not saying to anyone that if you have similar issues with your older, but much beloved MBP, that this will do the trick, but I did want to get this out there because $69 for a new battery is a lot better than >$1200 for a new machine (if you do not currently have or want to spend the money).
I do a weekly time machine backup and I will be really sad when this computer finally gives up the ghost, but since I've gotten a lot of good information from these forums, I wanted to pass this information along in the hope that it might help someone in the community. The two Steves have my undying admiration and respect.

Unplugged battery from logic board now it won't recognise there's a battery plugged in

So over the last week I've been having issues with my power cable, often it wouldn't work, sometimes it would but it wouldn't hold for long. After a week or so it started flashing green but sort of more dull green. No orange. After some extensive research I found a temporary fix was to unplug the battery from the board plug it back in and voila. Supposedly. So when that didn't work, and after spotting the tiny teeth marks right beneath the MagSafe bit from a very naughty kitten, I bit the bullet and paid the £60 (expensive when you're a jobless student, hey, times are tough) for a replacement charger, and the new cable worked a charm. BUT, now my MacBook says it's got no battery available and I'm thinking maybe I've been a bit of an idiot unplugging it. I'm on an early 2011 MBP running a version of snow leopard. I've done all the smc resets etc and the stuff for kernals? (I'm not mac proficient yet) and now I'm thinking maybe I need a new battery but I can't afford one or the diagnostic + replacement charges at the Genius Bar. So I pose this dilemma to you, the community, in the hopes that someone can help me. I can provide any extra info necessary so don't hesitate to ask. Many thanks for responses.
A confused, lost and terrified man.

Try the SMC again. Make certain that you use the correct instructions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
If no success, make an appointment at an Apple store genius bar. The diagnosis will be FREE. Any repairs will not be free but you will know exactly what you are dealing with.
Since you MBP does not even recognize the battery suggests that there is a connection break. I'm wondering if damage was done when you disconnected and then reconnected the battery (to the battery connection).
Ciao.

New Logic Board = Significanlty Slower Mac

Recently I had my Macbook Pro shipped off for repairs for a number of problems I've had with it, and they ended up replacing the battery, superdrive, logic board, and display wiring. Since I've gotten back, my mac is noticeably slower. Boot up time has increased, And there is a one or two second delay in doing simple tasks like right clicking on the desktop and having the menu pop up, or double clicking a buddy in iChat to bring up a new chat window. I've used this computer for several hours a day, nearly every single day for the past 2 years, so I am very familiar with how long it takes to do different tasks. Any ideas as to to fix this?
I very reluctant to have to send it in again, because I use it for work, and I had to miss a week's worth of work to send it in the first time, and I can't afford to do that again.

Could you start Activity Monitor Application and see if anything is using lots of CPU or memory? Also could you open Terminal.app and type 'sudo dmesg' without quotes and then post the output?
One other thing to check is to go to System Profiler (Apple Menu Icon -> About This Mac -> More Info) and then check the status of the disk drive - it should say SMART Status verified.
If some process is hogging the CPU it may explain the slowness. What 3rd party software do you have installed?

ISight/Logic Board Mess

i bought a macbook off of craigslist. i replaced basically everything in the macbook short of the cd drive and ram. i never have been able to get the isight to work, so i bought a new one and installed it today. i still cannot get the computer to recognize the isight camera.
as i was putting the macbook together i noticed that a small gold or copper metal piece that is located above the airport card was broken off. it's a metal piece that bends and curves almost giving it a spring-like function....if that makes any sense.
i ran a hardware test to see if i could find the isight problem and i got the error: 4SNS/1/40000000:TBOT. I have tried resetting everything on the computer, i have followed all the support pages that apple has to offer. does anyone have any ideas? could the gold piece have something to do with the error or would that be what is messing with the isight?
obviously my cpu is not under warranty. i'm not sure where to go from here. any suggestions would be appreciated.

UPDATE:
Apparently the error that I was receiving was fixed when I put the battery back on. Upon retesting, with the battery on, I could not get the error code. However, when I tested without the battery the error came back.
Here is the current situation. The iSight is still not being recognized. I have done everything suggested by apple, this forum and other forums as well. I then reinstalled Leopard...nothing. I also noticed that the battery is not being charged. The weird thing is that when you click the battery, in the top-right-hand-corner of the screen, it states that a battery in not connected...but, when I go to the System Profiler under the Power section it tells me the charge information (in which there is not a charge), cycle count and the condition of the battery. So obviously something is recognizing the battery. The cycle count and condition is good which eliminates that as a problem.
So, here is what I am wondering:
a.) How can the battery be recognized in the System Profiler, but not in the task bar?
b.) If there is a problem in the cables (or whatnot) between the battery and logic board or the iSight camera and logic board, would that show up on a hardware test?
c.) Would starting over by wiping the hard-drive, reinstalling the OS with the original disks I got with the CPU, updating, reinstalling Leopard and updating help? Maybe there is some missing files or drivers?
d.) Could there be a problem with the iSight portion of the display inverter without it interfering with the actual screen portion?
I bought the Macbook used (cheap) and have replaced everything in the computer (logic board, power supply, hard-drive, bluetooth, etc) minus the cd drive and original RAM.

Magsafe or Logic Board?

Hi there.
So, my problem is: recently my MagSafe light started to go out, and so was the power. It wouldn't charge, (no light, or feint light, or power). When, for a miracle, charged, if I snapped the MagSafe, to use the laptop, the computer would die in the spot. Sudden shutdown, and no response for (maybe) 10 seconds, and the started again with the power button.
Now it simply doesn't charge at all. I don't have anyone near enough to test it another MagSafe is the solution (the cheapest one at least), and my funds are somewhat near the low limit ahah.
For the record, it's a 2010 MacBook Pro 15", and, I used some duct tape the minute I used the the power charger, to "reinforce" the cable near the transformer, and some near the L-shape magnet. I saw many users complaining that it weared out, so, I opted for an easy solution. It's intact, and very very white in oppose for the rest of the cable that is kinda of gray.
Anyone experienced something like this, or heard?
Thanks for any response,
Rui Sousa

alright i will try to help you as much as i can
so i have a MBP mid 2012 ( MBP = Mac Book Pro ) and when it was two weeks old the mag safe addapter would only stay green when i pluged it in. And funny enough my mac would not charge. They after 10 minutes it turned off and would not turn on again. I did all the resets that apple told me to do and nothing. I took it in to Doncaster and they had it for about two weeks to do work on it. Turns out it was the battery and logic board.
So that was useless information but my point from that is that my magsafe had nothing to do with the problem.
From reading what you have said i am thinking that if your magsafe addapter came damaged you should call apple ( 133622 ) and let them know and the " might " replace it. All depends on warrenty and if your warrenty is finished they still might see what they can do.
If you are in warrenty they will most likely do a free replacememnt if it came like that.
Other wise go to apple.com/au and make a gueniess bar appointment with your closest store and they will be able to do some tests with the addapter and battery and everything else. That is what i did.
So give that a try and you can make an appointment over the phone when you call 133622 with your closest store. Just ask them
Good Luck and help that i have been able to help in some way
Matt

Mid 2009 applecare logic board and battery ADVICE

returning mac OS and mac hardware buyer here.
i have been questioning (read complaining) about the battery life (1 1/2 hours on safari) and the performance (spinning beachballs on startup, on wake and on starting safari among other things) since i bought this machine. i brought it in for the umpteenth time to the genius bar (they apparently only have 3 of these on record?!) because i had a break and i have a "service battery" alert.
i am being told i can replace the battery and the logic board based upon their diagnostics of the machine and i have FINALLY (Whoo-HOOO yippeee kayeeee'y!!) got a committment from a mac rep that i should be expecting 3 1/2 - 4 hours out of the battery and not 1 1/2 hours.
i don't really have an option here from everything i can tell but does anyone have any advice for me on this? warranty is up in February and from what i am being told i can bring it back if i bring it home and still only get poor battery life.
at the same time i am really unhappy (insert expletive) about having spent so much time troubleshooting this machine only to be told that the hardware seems fine or that the battery tests normal or whatever. this macbook pro 13 inch seems like it was a dog since the day i bought it.
my preference would REALLYT be to trade into mac on a new macbook pro 15" and i am wondering if i am instead i am going to have to just repair this machine (thank my lucky stars that i buy applecare) and empirically test the machine on my end to make sure that i am getting more than 2 hours per charge and that i don't have the spinning beachballs that i have had to have dealt with over the last 3 years...
i mean, i /have/ to fix this machine and monitor it over the next three months instead of them helping me cut bait with it by getting some financial incentive somehow to move into a new MBP is that right...?
TIA

thanks.
looks like it has now had a new battery and a new logic board and it is still failing hardware test for the battery.
they are now sending it out for additional testing to some other facility.
anyone had a similar experience?

MacBookPro2,1 Firewire / Clock Battery Issue... maybe Logic Board?

Hello,
I have this MacbookPro 17" since late 2007.
It has had the logic board replaced twice by Apple Service.
This happened over a year ago.
The cause at that time was that my hd suddenly was not working and after further diagnose it turned out to be the logic board.
The same day I got it back from Apple Service Firewire ports were not working... so I had to wait for another 2 weeks and finally got it back.
A couple of months later I noticed that the clock would reset to 1969 if I removed the battery and the magsafe cable.
A couple of months later I noticed that the firewire ports didnt work at all. ( FW400 / FW800 ). I didnt have the 2 weeks needed for Apple Service to do a diagnose and another 2 weeks to do whatever it is they do to fix it so I had no choice and stuck with the problems.
Now I finally got me another machine and can try and fix this. Any ideas?
Thanks!!!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Are you still under warranty? If so, Apple is obligated to fix these problems under warranty. Did you ever report back to Apple that you still had problems or get a case number?
You probably have the same MBP that I do, since I bought mine new in September 2007.
Regarding the FireWire ports, try the tips in this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1317
See if you can get them working again.
Regarding the clock, it sounds like the backup battery on the logic board is dead or discharged, so you are dependent on the main battery and the power adaptor for keeping the time. The backup battery probably needs to be replaced.
On general principles, it wouldn't hurt to do a PRAM reset and a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411?viewlocale=en_US
These resets will return everything to default values, and sometimes will cure some problems.
If nothing helps, then it sounds like your last logic board replacement is defective. I believe that both the 400 and the 800 FireWire ports are attached to the logic board, as is the backup battery for the clock. The battery can be replaced as far as I know, but I don't know if anything can be done about the ports.
Good luck!

I have a problem with my motherboard and my battery of my 2010 macbook pro 13". It was just serviced with a new screen, keyboard, and logic board.

I have a problem with my motherboard and my battery of my 2010 macbook pro 13". It was just serviced with a new screen, keyboard, and logic board. How much will a new battery and motherboard cost and would it be worth it or should I just get a new computer. It was about 300 dollars to get it serviced last week. if it adds up to much past 600 dollars I will just get a new one. THANKS FOR ANY HELP!
P.S During classes today it began beeping in my bag. Like three kind of long steady beeps then a short pause, and when I opened it I couldn't see anything but it was on so I turned it off and back on.

Depends on what options your Apple store offers - if they can do a depot repair (where they send it out), that's around $300 for all parts & labor.
If the store doesn't have that option, a logicboard is around $600, battery $80-$100, from what I've seen.
If they JUST replaced the logicboard, you absolutely should NOT have to pay for another replacement - the replacement is covered by a warranty. If they want you to pay for it, make sure you have a copy of the receipt for the work that was recently completed so you can show it to them. They have no reason to charge you for another logicboard.
~Lyssa

Battery won't charge? Logic board?

My 800MHz G4 iBook no longer charges the battery. It will run from the battery, but not get charged when plugged in. Is this a logic board issue or a DC in board issue? I can change them out myself, I just don't know which one might be the culprit.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Scott

This happened to my iBook when the DC input board
needed to be replaced. Its a tricky process, but I
can post you a link to DIY directions. When you plug
the AC adapter into the DC input hole, does it seem
loose and not want to stay in?
If it was your Logic Board, you would have different
symptoms. Faulty logic board problems manifest
themselves one day as garbling the screen image and
quickly result in total failure of the machine to
boot up or otherwise function.
Rachyl
Yes, the battery not charging is my only problem. I just hated to spend that much on a new logic board and not have this fixed. Replacing the DC in isn't that difficult since I've opened up several iBooks before.
Thanks, Rachyl, I'll give it a whirl.
Scott

Does the logic board affect battery performance?

Anyone know of any issues at all?
Cheers

Yeah sorry. It's just that i had my macbook pro repaired due to a faulty logic board. It's a known problem and covered by Apple, so the repair was free. Since it's come back the battery is not working properly. Never had a problem before with it. I suspect that that they've given me someone else's duff battery. However, I'm investigating the possibility that the battery is fine and it's a faulty logic board that is causing the power problems. The battery used to tell me at about 10% to plug in my power cord, and even when i didn't it just went to sleep - as in after getting a dose of power all the programs were open that i was using etc. Now it shuts down at about 35% power.
Does anyone know if the logic board repair could be causing the problem?
Cheers

How to replace logic board battery ?

How to replace the Logic board battery ?

Several years ago, when the link went to a different content page and was
likely more useful to someone whose product may have/had warranty, then
it was of help. Now, to look back on several older posted links and click on
them, quite often will take the participant to http://www.apple.com/support/
no matter what the initial out-dated a link originally appeared to suggest.
Current info and links to sources may be found in the Support site.
See all worldwide telephone support numbers
Contact a mobile carrier
Find an Apple Authorized Service Provider
Visit an Apple Retail Store
For other regions or countries, see Apple - Find Locations - Country selector:
https://locate.apple.com/country
re: Sales, Service, Training, Certification, Consulting; varies per region.
An Authorized Apple Service Provider may also be capable of restoring
function to older hardware; though getting replacement new parts is an
issue going forward, as it always has been, given new product change.
For other repairs, one should look to Specialists and that includes repair
companies whose only business is primarily to restore function to Macs.
A few examples exist, one of them is wegenermedia.com for portables;
since they can be more easily/less costly shipped than desktop models.
To post a comment to a stale and outdated thread, brings little to the table
of discussions; any issue from two to five years ago is not current today in
the fairness of those persons original to the topic thread. A newer issue by
any player should be presented in a new discussion topic thread.
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing!

Wakeup/PRAM/Logic Board Battery

Hello all
Makes sense to me but need advise
My computer (2011 iMac QdCore) was slow "waking up".
Therefore, I reset the PRAM 3 times in a row.
Works fine for a couple of hours then the problems starts all over again.
I am GUESSING that my Logic Board battery is NOT holding the charge.
From one end, that makes sense, yet my iMac is only 2 years Old how can it need a new battery.
I am missing something, can any one help before a (possible ueseless ) purchase of a new MB Battery?
Thank you for any input.
Regards

I have never heard of a PRAM battery going flat in 2 years, I don't believe that is your problem. If you bought AppleCare your machine is still covered so you can call AppleCare or take it in for service.

Serial No Mismatch - logic board and battery compartment

Hi,
I ordered a 1GHz G4 Titanium Powerbook as soon as the first SuperDrive model was announced in Nov, 2002, without any add-ons. I received it in early December, 2002. I have just discovered that the serial number on the logic board (next to the memory bays) is completely different to the serial number in the battery compartment. The serial number in the battery compartment is the same as on the box and as reported by 'About this Mac'. I discovered this the first time I ever took the machine in for service - random system crashes/software failure/occasional panics when booting (not fixed by new RAM).
Does anyone know how this serial number mismatch could possibly happen on a brand new model that came from Apple via an AppleCentre?

A follow-up on this:
I spoke to Apple Australia who said it was not uncommon, even though AppleCare (in India) had said it was not something they had heard of and that I should speak to Customer Relations.
The repair person at the second Apple Store then advised me that the logic board serial no on some machines is in fact the factory's serial no, not Apple's, and therefore it is normal. There is confusion, though, since many newer machines have eg iBooks have Apple's serial no under the key pad.

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