{"id":21,"date":"2015-04-02T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2016-12-27T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T08:45:20","slug":"so-your-macbook-pro-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/2015\/04\/so-your-macbook-pro-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"So your MacBook Pro broke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happen to have a 2009-2011 -ish MacBook Pro? You know, the one with Core2Duo CPU, 13&#8243; screen, DDR3 memory?<\/p>\n<p>If it suddenly stops booting to the OS X and starts showing you the folder icon you might be suffering from a typical problem that plagues nearly all of them at some point &#8211; the SATA cable.<\/p>\n<p>The cable can exhibit two kinds of problems;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the connector at the hard drive end might have bad connection; you can use tape or something to make it tighter, but this isn&#8217;t usually a long-term solution<\/li>\n<li>the whole cable might be bad; for some reason, probably due to heat and movement induced stress, the whole cable will fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Solution? Open up the &#8220;unibody&#8221; and swap in a new one. If you live in Europe, you can get a new one from eBay at around 30 eur. In the US even cheaper. Just remember to get the correct cable ( 821-0814-A ), the 15&#8243; versions of the MacBook has a different, larger cable.<\/p>\n<p>Or you could take it to your local Mac shop and pay them anything between 80 to 150 eur, or as in this case &#8211; let them bill you for *nothing* and sell the user a new 2000 eur MacBook Pro. (Latter happened to the previous owner of this particular MacBook Pro&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1809.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22\" src=\"http:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1809-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The cable that nearly always fails in the old MacBook Pros.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1809-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1809-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cable that nearly always fails in the old MacBook Pros. The parts number is 821-0814-A.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And that folks, is the story of how I got my first working MacBook for around 30 euros&#8230; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happen to have a 2009-2011 -ish MacBook Pro? You know, the one with Core2Duo CPU, 13&#8243; screen, DDR3 memory? If it suddenly stops booting to the OS X and starts showing you the folder icon you might be suffering from a typical problem that plagues nearly all of them at some point &#8211; the SATA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[8,6,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmeranta.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}