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Rant: The week a 2013 MacBook Pro with a bad SSD turned into a 4 day nightmare
So last Tuesday a guy walks into the shop with a 2013 MacBook Pro that wont boot, and I figure its a dead drive, easy swap, maybe 40 minutes. I pull the SSD, throw it in my USB adapter, and nothing shows up in Disk Utility, not even the drive letter, just dead. Fine, I tell him the drive is toast and quote him $180 for a new one plus data recovery attempt, and he says go for it. I order a replacement, clone the customer's Time Machine backup, pop the new drive in, and it boots, except now the fans are screaming like a jet and the screen has these weird pink lines on the left edge. Turns out when I opened it up I nicked the display cable with my spudger, and that cable on the 2013 model is soldered right into the board, so now its a $300 logic board repair instead of a simple drive swap. The guy is cool about it, but my boss was not, and I spent Thursday and Friday sourcing a board from a parts guy in Sacramento who wanted $220 cash. It finally booted clean on Saturday morning, but I lost my Saturday plans and my pride over one tiny slip of a plastic tool. Has anyone else cooked a display cable on these older Retinas, or is it just me being clumsy?
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kai_park26d ago
Managed to snap a keyboard ribbon on a 2015 Air once, so welcome to the club of tiny tools causing huge problems. Those display cables are the worst because you barely feel anything and then boom, whole board is toast. At least your customer was cool about it, mine just stared at me in silence for a full minute.
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