One thing that was actually more of a struggle for me than replacing the logic board itself, was getting the new logic board to boot up to my SSD. Once I had disassembled everything, it was fairly easy to put it all back together. Also when installing the heatsink I used some specialized cleaner to get rid of the old thermal paste material and prepare the service for a new application of thermal paste. When doing this repair I found that it is important to have some extra thermal paste as I needed it to reinstall the heat-sink. I found it actually rather easy as long as I took my time and made sure I was as thorough as possible. The replacement of the logic board went very smoothly. The Logic Board was also 7 years old and in general had slowed down considerably. ![]() This got so annoying to the point where I sometimes could not get anything done and I had to find free external software that would allow me to only use the intel chip, thus preventing kernel panics. This meant that if I had automatic graphics switching on, the computer would continually have a kernel panic and reboot because the GPU wasn't t working. ![]() I wanted to replace the logic board because my NVIDIA GPU was no longer working.
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