rockjapan

not from battery when connected. At boot without battery, MagSafe shows green for two seconds and then orange constant....

I purchased a 2011 MBP hard drive cable from iFixit last week and it came in a mangled and badly folded condition with a severe permanent crease in the signal lines and no paper backing on the sticky parts. An email with pictures and an international telephone call to iFixit support said this sometimes happens (!) but there was no offer to replace what is clearly a defectively packed part. There was mention that if it works but fails in the future they will replace under the lifetime warranty policy, so I'm faced with installing a substandard part and waiting for a second failure. I am VERY disappointed with the service from this company and WOULD NOT purchase from them again.

I have the same model and there is no MXM GPU (or even a slot) on the motherboard for an MXM. The GPU chip is soldered to the motherboard, so no replacing with a K1100M, etc.

I removed the large square aluminum heatsink on the GPU chip and heat-gunned it for 8 minutes at 200°C and I am about to reassemble (after 30 minutes to cool) and see it that has made a temporary fix. If not, it’s going to be parted-out for pennies.

I have pictures of the alternative motherboard layout without the MXM GPU if anybody wants them.

On my EMC2267 (A1225), the layout is completely different. There is no heat upper heat sink for the MXM card and where that should be there is a blanking plate! There is none of the metal structure on the front of the motherboard supporting heatpipes. It is as if the MXM card and the subsystems supporting it are missing. I will remove motherboard tonight to see what is going on behind it!

A warranty void if removed sticker would be illegal. Hope Apple remembers this.