{"id":1535,"date":"2023-03-01T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2023-03-01T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:38:13","slug":"2008-macbook-pro-17-inch-a1261-gpu-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"2008 MacBook Pro 17-inch A1261 GPU repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

My in-laws had an old MacBook Pro that they wanted the data wiped from, mainly because the display was missing vertical columns of pixels. I couldn’t bring myself to erase without figuring out what the issue was, surely others were on this years ago. Here’s a summary of people describing the issue with past and current fixes (the last I may attempt at a later date when I’m a bit more mobile).<\/p>\n

Apple Community Support – Vertical lines of missing pixels on MacBook Pro<\/a><\/p>\n

One customer saying that Apple replaced his machine<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple’s Repair Extension, ended December 7, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Here's<\/a><\/p>\n

DosDude1 describes the repair, he replaces a defective Nvidia 8600M GPU on a 15-inch 2008 MacBook Pro<\/a><\/p>\n

A1261 2008 17″ MacBook Prorepair.wiki<\/a><\/p>\n

iFixit.com – MacBook Pro 17″ Models A1151 A1212 A1229 and A1261<\/a><\/p>\n

Schematics and Boardviews Availability at logi.wiki<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My in-laws had an old MacBook Pro that they wanted the data wiped from, mainly because the display was missing vertical columns of pixels. I couldn’t bring myself to erase without figuring out what the issue was, surely others were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}