{"id":176,"date":"2018-11-06T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2019-08-22T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:17:04","slug":"computing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/?page_id=176","title":{"rendered":"Computing &#038; Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page holds various computing and computer-related documents.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>MacBook Pro 15 &amp; 17&#8243; models between 2011-2012 had a fatal flaw in its AMD graphics chip. For a time Apple would replace the motherboard &#8211; but with another defective part that would eventually fail.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a way to hack your operating system and get it working again. Thanks to &#8220;PeytonPlaysMc&#8221; on YouTube for doing the original legwork.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fix-as-performed-2018-GFLv3.pdf\" rel=\"\">MacBook Pro 2011 Graphics Hack Instructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1970s\/80s vintage Weller WTCPN temperature controlled soldering station is a workhorse and generally worth fixing compared with its (less durable) $250+ replacements or some of the off brand Chinese junk.\u00a0 But on 50 year old products there are lots of things to go wrong. Here&#8217;s my write up, after doing secondary research but ultimately dis-assembling **everything** measuring and observing. I hope it helps a few of you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Failure-modes-and-Repair-of-Weller-WTCPN-Soldering-Station.pdf\">Weller Failure Modes and Repair Writeup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page holds various computing and computer-related documents.\u00a0 Enjoy! MacBook Pro 15 &amp; 17&#8243; models between 2011-2012 had a fatal flaw in its AMD graphics chip. For a time Apple would replace the motherboard &#8211; but with another defective part that would eventually fail.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a way to hack your operating system and get it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonogyresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}