2010 Mbp 15 screen problem

[Csanko]

Hi all,

Hope you could help me figure out my problem with my old macbook pro mid 2010 15 inch.

I just took it out of the office after laying around gathering dust for years.

I wanted to update it so i can sell it, so i changed the old hdd with an ssd. It worked properly but suddenly the other day when it booted up, the black areas of the screen had rectangular red boxes. the screen connecter is connected properly.

Any suggestions to what i might be? or how it could diagnostic it?

I haven't been able to find the exact problem anywhere online.

Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated!

 

[Mixso]

Recently fault found a similar issue on friends laptop by connecting to an external monitor & proving screen was failing. After screen replacement issue was resolved.
I used a TV as an external monitor.
Hope that helps you out.

 

[Roman78]

The 2010 model has problems with the failing capacitor C9560. This one is very easily to replace. That cap is providing the dGPU whit power, so it could be giving to less power to generate those images but still enough power not to shutdown.

 

[Csanko]

The 2010 model has problems with the failing capacitor C9560. This one is very easily to replace. That cap is providing the dGPU whit power, so it could be giving to less power to generate those images but still enough power not to shutdown.

I am only able to boot in safe mode. And there the gpu shouldnt be active. And yes it has the dgpu kernel panic issue, however still weird when only in safe mode

 

[Roman78]

In safe mode there is no need for high performance, so that can work. I have some pictures in my Blog, but that's on German.

http://www.die-oswalds.de/blog/2019/01/28/macbook-pro-2008-2010-grafikkarten-reparatur/