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Hey guys. Yesterday my MacBook died randomly with 50% battery life. When I pressed the power button there would be no response whatsoever. I then plugged in the charger and it attempted to come on several times, but would shut on and off, on and off. If I leave it plugged in for a moment and hold a couple of keys down I can get it to come on. When it’s on it won’t charge (battery icon states “Not charging”). For all intents and purposes it runs fine when it’s turned on and hooked up, but as soon as I unhook it it shuts off. I tried resetting the PRAM and doing a SMC reset. Doesn’t change anything. Tried running an Apple Hardware Test but it freezes at 24 secs and gets really overheated. I’ve recently replaced the battery, hard drive and ram over the past year for various reasons. Think it could be my logic board? Thanks.
My bet would be on a failed GPU. There was a class action law suit on this model resulting in an Apple Repair extension Program which has now expired. There is slight possibility Apple would make an exception. I would take it in and result that they run the test. If they won’t fix it for free, you’re looking at a new logic board. Apple may agree to a Flat Rate Repair on this. Total costs on that including tax and shipping have been $357. Here’s the program: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro…
It could be the logic board. It would explain the overheating, unrecognized battery, et cetera. For the battery, the one fix I’ve seen before is reseating the battery connector on the logic board. That was when a battery was not charging at all, though.
