Recent content by luna74

Dear rodion15, First off, I'm really happy that you found my initial answer helpful. In response to your follow up question: It appears that Apple Service Diagnostic is an application designed very differently from Memtest86. As far as I'm aware, there is no option to perform a memory test (on...

First off, are you aware that you'll be purchasing older macbooks? Secondly, between the 3 of these choices, I'd go with the i5 processor 8gb of ram, and 500gb solid state hybrid drive FOR SURE! My reasoning behind this choice is that the 2011 Macbook Pro (which I'm assuming this is) was a...

Here's a quote from a text document that I believe contains the answers to all of your questions: "The Apple Service Diagnostic application is designed to run both EFI and Mac OS X tests from an external USB hard drive. Apple Service Diagnostic (EFI) runs low-level tests of the hardware directly...

You can make a 2011 i5 MBP go lightening fast if you're willing to take the time and spend the money to upgrade its hard drive to a solid state drive, and I know for a fact that the mid-2010 i5 macbook pro can at the very least support 8gb of RAM so you should upgrade your RAM as well (shoot for...

Hey Outlier, So, the deal with upgrading older Macbook Pro's is that the processor and graphics card are going to be soldered directly onto the motherboard which is why you are seeing so many links for upgrading exclusively via a new hard drive or upping the ram. Anyway, if you're looking to up...

Perhaps there is a way to actually perform a true "downgrade" from a technical standpoint, but if you're looking to simply move from Yosemite to Maverick and you already have Maverick on an external HDD, here's what I would do: *This is a brief guide to copying everything new since the backup...

Hey darkchief, Yes, you can clone the original drive onto the ssd while it is connected via the optical drive's msata port. If the ultimate goal is to have the ssd be the boot drive for the computer you should know up front that, if you do this you're going to need to change your boot options in...

Hey, I'm thinking that you're totally correct, and that this is causing your issue, however I also think that if possible you shouldn't simply detach the GPU's fan and be done with it. Instead, I purpose figuring out another hardware solution that will allow for you to get the necessary 12v to...

If we are giving the person the benefit of the doubt then I can only think of the following: There is a fault in a common factor between each drive and both computers that you haven't found yet. Can you be more specific in the manner in which these drives are failing specifically? Any...

When you opened the computer to clean the fan was there still any power running to the motherboard?

Why'd you take it apart in the first place? Is chromeOS the native operating system?