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I seem to recall baking PC nvidia GPU boards in your oven was a reasonably common out-of-warranty fix around that era.
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I had to do this with my MacBook Pro models early 2015 and late 2017.

It seems like there was a period in time when solder just wasn’t done well, it seems like.

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IIRC this is to do with the phase in of RoHS and bad lead free solder
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