The mother board breaks
A couple of years ago my dear MacBook Pro from 2010 died when I was trying to fill in an application form for my U.S work visa online. I had technical issues and probably a weak line or something like that. For some reason I had to fill in the same form a several times and because of that I was pretty frustrated. When the catche then also wouldn’t come through, I completely out of frustration typed the f-word and pressed enter. It must be that I slammed the key a bit too hard, because it turned out that the motherboard of the computer broke. It just zapped off like with a laser sound and the screen turned black. But at the moment when it happened, I felt like I was really monitored by something or someone with unexpected abilities or power to do that to me. And I felt like whatever it now might have been that was monitoring me, punished me for my immature behavior by killing my computer in front of my eyes. Now when I think about it, I would still say that it was kind of the truth. In one way or another it was probably the universe or just nature itself that was monitoring me and made that consequence out of my frustration to punish me. Basically, with other words, I broke my own computer.
I hand it in for reparation
I handed it in for reparation at the apple store in La Spezia, where I was. And after I got it analyzed they told me that the motherboard was burned. I asked them if they could fix it. They said that they couldn’t because they didn’t have any vintage spare parts. So I asked them to take out the hard drive and put it into a box with a cable so that I could at least use it as an external hard drive, and save the data on it. There was a lot of writing on there. I was kind of worried. It worked out and at least I managed to recover my files.
I was without computer for a week or two then I went to another apple store in Sweden and bought the latest MacBook Pro 2019. It worked out pretty well. It was a nice new computer, but so expensive. This is the computer I am using now. But I must say that I was a lot more happy with my old one when I got that. Maybe because it was my first MacBook after been using PC’s. I still saved my old MacBook hoping to get it fixed one day. Before it broke I had it modified a couple of times, so it still had ok specs even though it was about 7-8 years old. Never had any problems with it. It was never a struggling computer and I kind of always wanted to have it back. I was running Linux on it and now I know a guy who have a lot of nice programs for Linux, which I want to start learning.
I tryed to fix it myself
Last week I finally bought myself another old MacBook from 2009, which my friend found on an advertisement online. I bought it just to take the mother board from it and to put that into my old onne. I opened up my old one, disconnected all the cables and dismounted the broken logic board. Then I did the same with the computer I just bought. I changed over my RAM memory to the logic board I wanted to use and tried to mount it into my old computer. I noticed there were a slight difference on the boards since they had different kind of screws. But it wasn’t until I was about to mount the mother board, I realized that it was a slight difference in size of the board as well. That was a little worrying but I still tried to squeeze it in there and forced it a little bit. I didn’t need to bend it or so and I managed to get it in place with a few screw sitting with an angle and some of the screw holes empty. Then it was time to connect all the wiring again. That’s when I realized that my computer had two cables for the screen and the logic board which I just took from the 2009 MacBook had only one slot for a screen cable (I think that is what it was. I believe that 2010 was the first year when the MacBooks came with a retina screen.
The computer dies
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