Sadly you can’t uncrack an egg and in this case you can’t undo the damage caused by the chip overheating over the years you’ve had the system.
-
But! It may not be doom & gloom here. There are two distinct issues the tantalum caps failing and the other which is the worse the GPU is shot.
-
-
You’ll need to find someone with the skills to properly diagnose which way your system failed and hopefully get it fixed.
+
But! It may not be doom & gloom here. There are two distinct issues the tantalum caps failing and the other which is the worse the GPU is shot. You’ll need to find someone with the skills to properly diagnose which way your system failed and hopefully get it fixed.
Last glimmer of hope here is you can also force the system to use the Iris graphics services within the Intel CPU. While this will help you limp along for a short time it’s not as powerful a GPU as the Radion GPU.
Sadly you can’t uncrack an egg and in this case you can’t undo the damage caused by the chip overheating over the years you’ve had the system.
But! It may not be doom & gloom here. There are two distinct issues the tantalum caps failing and the other which is the worse the GPU is shot.
You’ll need to find someone with the skills to properly diagnose which way your system failed and hopefully get it fixed.
Last glimmer of hope here is you can also force the system to use the Iris graphics services within the Intel CPU. While this will help you limp along for a short time it’s not as powerful a GPU as the Radion GPU.