Apple replaced the motherboard twice under their Extension Repair program, each failing after about 6 months. I have a mid-2010 15” MBP in which the NVIDIA GPU on the original motherboard failed, around 2014. What is the part number for a logic board that is known to not suffer from the GPU Panic issue (assuming it actually entered circulation)?.Was it definitely the logic board that caused this fault?.Of course, I'm only willing to spend the money if I'm sure it will actually solve the issue. Either way, I'm assuming they just replaced the defective board with a newer revision - meaning that parts sites ( like this) probably have these revised boards knocking about that won't suffer the same issue.Ĭonsidering the still-incredible spec and condition of this machine, I don't mind spending the money for a new logic board if it means I can reliably use macOS on it. Although I've read in some places (comment) that it's the logic board that was replaced, this article suggests it's in fact the 'defective video card' that is replaced. I am aware of numerous other potential fixes (Kext purge, PRAM reset etc), but I have run through all of these at one point or another.Īnyway, so I was thinking about the process they used when they were running the official replacement program. that this and similar patches have not always been reliable (I have memories of it not working consistently in the past).that this forcefully disables the nVidia adapter (shifting graphics handling onto the CPU, which is not ideal when I want to use external monitors).The standard correction for this nowadays seems to be gfx.io (which is now the only software option, thanks to Apple discontinuing their software patch. I'm fairly certain I wouldn't be able to pull off the 'make-a-fuss' approach suggested by a lot of answerers. AppleCare has obviously expired, and would not be an option since they'd inevitably ask for the receipt, which I doubt my relatives would ever be able to find (10 years later). I inherited a Mid-2010 15' Macbook Pro (2.66 GHz Core i7 (I7-620M), A1286) from a relative a few years ago, and since then it started GPU-panicking (a la here, here etc).

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