Hi dosdude1, Love from India. I am a student and no idea about soldering. Currently, I am running my 2011 MacBook pro using nvram variable. But I am planning to do the gemux solution myself. Can you please tell me which soldering wire (the orange one) are you using to connect FPGA lattice and the board?
In the same place. I´m gonna take my Macbook Pro to a professional service. Just to solder the wires. Really, colors are not a problem, I think, as long as you make the right connections.I bought these cables.
Upon getting the key reset, now my MBP runs flawlessly with native backlight support on Mojave. Great work and many thanks.
So sorry for the delay.
Try shorting PLT_RESET_L to ground while flashing if you haven't already, as explained on the DeMux webpage. Make sure you short this rail before powering the board on, and keep it shorted while performing the flash (if done correctly, the board will not POST, and will slowly rev the fans up to full speed). That will more than likely resolve your issue.
Why are the cables soldered to that board at the right instead of being directly connected to the programmer? In this picture from @dosdude1 they are directly connected.
I shorted PLT_RESET_L by holding the wire, plugged the mbp power in and it didnt POST
Thats the pin header of the lattice programmer to limit the issue of long wires
I see. Thanks. I will pick up mine tomorrow, took it to a professional solder.
Im thinking the lag could be due to the old crusty thermal goop from back in 2011 and mixture of dust which I did find and tried to remove from the exhaust fins where the fan is. Need to get my thermal paste and screwdriver set with torx bits from my other place first.
Do you have a good, genuine Apple battery installed? The system will be laggy if the machine has a dead battery, and has the same issue with some no-name Chinese aftermarket batteries.
Running the original apple battery actually but hasnt been charged up. Will charge it up over night and see what happens. Hopefully its just the dead battery from not being charged for years.
Running the original apple battery actually but hasnt been charged up. Will charge it up over night and see what happens. Hopefully its just the dead battery from not being charged for years.
Update:
High Sierra failed to install after 9hrs being on the charger. Removed the magsafe plug and mbp shut completely off.
I guess its safe to say the battery is fully dead. (2 ram, battery & ssd plugged in)
Created the High Sierra bootable usb drive again incase some funny business happened before.
Removed 1 ram and unplugged the battery then formatted the ssd in mbp and went to install High Sierra again.
Came back with the error.
Will try installing High Sierra to the sandisk 120gb extreme ssd instead of the samsung 860 evo 1tb ssd. See if the ssd could be the issue.
Update 2:
Swapping out the ssd still has the same error screen. Next will try the original ram that came with the mbp when I can get it from the other place. Trying to boot up into the diagnostic goes no further when selecting the wireless network. Such a pain trying to diagnose problems with macs
Its pretty annoying but could be worse eh. Ill try the original ram first and then new thermal paste and give it a dust cleanup. Thanks for the battery offer but its ok. I can always buy a cheapy battery off ebay and go for broke ($40 aud).
