MacBook Pro A1297 Shutting Down Issue

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  • Kambi13
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    • Aug 2022
    • 134
    • Portugal
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    MacBook Pro A1297 Shutting Down Issue

    Hi all, a few months ago I had a MacBook Pro A1297 mid 2010 that came in for new SSD drive and full system and cooler cleaning with fresh thermal paste being applied (Arctic MX4).
    Has been working fine, but now, out of the blue, here's what happens - It does boot up normally but after 10 ~ 15 seconds it turns itself off, either with the battery or with charger plugged in.
    Now weird part is that, although the fans do spin, I feel the cooler start to heat up very quickly, and of course that's why it's shutting itself off, overheating issue. But as I stated before it's completly clean, no dust or gunk, and there's fresh thermal paste in the CPU and the GPU.
    The fans do not ramp up.
    Hope is not the dreaded GPU failure...

    Any thoughts on this?
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    • Kambi13
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2022
      • 134
      • Portugal
      #2
      Re: MacBook Pro A1297 Shutting Down Issue

      Update:
      Tryied different ram sticks, Hard Drives, SSD Drives and Old Macosx versions, PRAM Reset, SMC Reset, all with the same result.
      When trying to boot into safe mode this is what I get
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      Last edited by Kambi13; 10-28-2022, 05:12 AM.

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