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Hi there guys, I bought some used MacBook pro’s today, for parts, and I managed to have one working one. But I have a screen and some other stuff left, which could make up a second working one. The only problem is, the screen has some cut wires on the left side and I don’t know their purpose. Are they needed? Could I just leave them disconnected? If I can’t leave them disconnected, where should I put them? Can I just solder them to the required board, and where? Pictures: I’ve got two different daughterboards, I don’t know which is the correct one for this screen or laptop.
The cut cables
Which is the correct one, the bottom one is longer on the right and has place for a connector, the top one doesn’t. To summarize: I don’t know if its a screen from a 2008 model or an earlier model, because they differ slightly. I suppose it’s from the T7400 2006 Model, because the cables differs from my 2008 Penryn MBP.
Search the web and get parts diagrams for every model you think you have. Match them up, the get the corresponding schematics from the web. Now, you can fix the cut connections. Waiting for someone to recognize these loose parts,,, my Dad said, “that ain’t gonna happen”. Good hunting - I recently took-on the project of FOUR dis-assembled RC-race-cars in ONE box ! Now I have a new motto - ‘I’m retired - so you do it.’
Thanks for the answer man, after a lot of digging around and comparing cables, I soldered the loose cables to a new connector, but the screen still doesn’t work. The macbook starts up with the Chime, but the fans are at full speed. The screen goes from a dark-green ish non-powered colour, to a black colour. Shining a flashlight at the screen showed nothing. What could be wrong? Is it worth it to buy a new inverter cable? Or could the logic board be bad? By the way, we’re talking about a 2006 Macbook Pro with a 2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo. A1211
