Our curiosity got the better of us and we decided to run it for a couple of days and… it remained stable (?). In its place, we installed a fresh version of OS X Yosemite, 10.10.4 on an Apple HDD, replaced the original ‘Apple RAM’ that shipped with the Macbook Pro and retrofitted the optical drive.ĭuring our post retrofit test we noticed that the unit ceased restarting. Whatever mods that were performed on the unit were reversed Solid State Drive (SSD), upgraded RAM and additional hard drive (HDD) and caddy removed. The “why?”Īt the time the Macbook Pro started acting up it was running OS X Mountain Lion, 10.8.5 with Apple’s latest Security Update.īelieve us, when we tell you we tried everything.Ĭoming to the end of our rope, we started to prep the unit to be sent in to an Apple Service Centre, bracing for the potential uphill battle to get Apple to address the problem. This is undoubtedly going to sound strange.įollowing up from our earlier article “ 15″ Macbook Pro 2010 Graphics Issues Returns“, we inadvertently ‘found’ what appears to be a permanent solution that has so far solved the issue in its entirety. We have since found (for lack of a better word) a ‘cure’. Making it immensely, nay – almost impossible to replicate on demand.ĭespite all attempts to troubleshoot the problem to find the root cause (including swapping our RAM modules and hard drives), nothing seemed to cure it and it appeared for most part that the GPU was failing.

Without warning, as of a month ago, our sturdy 15″ Macbook Pro 2010 (6,2) has been plagued by random restarts without any particular pattern or logic to it.

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