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The same thing I do for Windows PC users.
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I'm trying to learn how to help people when they cannot afford to purchase a new machine. The person at the door was a little condescending, "it's nice to try and save a little money", "wow that's an old piece of hardware", He totally missed the point that this an exercise in education. Should I try the reflow again? Is it possible to get the recovery disks from Apple? The apple store near by was not very helpful. I did start it up prior to getting it completely installed in the machine. It seemed to boot fine and show the apple logo a couple times but now it is not. When I first reflowed the logic board it booted to the apple logo then asked what to boot. Now as I understand it, unlike Windows and Linux you cannot boot from an install disk for the OS with an Apple product, is that correct? That means I'm stuck here without the recovery disks? This machine was shipped to me without the hard drive and without the recovery disks. I put the drive in to see if the logic board would see it. The problem is that the drive is a windows OS drive. It will also boot directly from the harddrive. I also get just a white screen and no Apple logo. During this time the light on the power connector is off. When I do that it will not start again, if I perform the same SMC reset procedure it will work and turn on. I can turn it off and on until I unplug it and plug it back in. If I reset the SMC by pressing the power button for 20 seconds and than connect the power supply and still holding in the power button for an additional 20 seconds it starts when I release the power button. By reflowing the logic board it will now start up, but only in certain order. I have been able to get the laptop to power up, but only in an odd way. I purchased a non working MacBook Pro from Ebay as way to try out servicing Apple hardware along with the Windows hardware I service.