MacBook Pro 17inch early 2011

Mac is unexpected restarting

rebooting tried the following steps :

power it off 10sec

booting to Internet recovery

safe mode

n v ram

please suggest!

MacBook Pro 17″, OS X 10.11

Posted on May 3, 2023 5:34 AM

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Posted on May 5, 2023 8:18 PM

So are you saying you are unable to boot into Safe Mode or Internet Recovery Mode (Command + Option + R) because the system reboots before it reaches the login screen or the online recovery tools?


Or do you get some sort of error message when attempting to boot into Internet Recovery Mode?


Try booting the online Apple Diagnostics to see if any hardware issues are detected.


More than likely your laptop has a hardware issue. The two most likely things are a failing hard drive or a GPU failure since the 17" model is known to have GPU issues. A failing internal hard drive can prevent a computer from booting even to external media.


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May 5, 2023 8:18 PM in response to Sidthemowgli

So are you saying you are unable to boot into Safe Mode or Internet Recovery Mode (Command + Option + R) because the system reboots before it reaches the login screen or the online recovery tools?


Or do you get some sort of error message when attempting to boot into Internet Recovery Mode?


Try booting the online Apple Diagnostics to see if any hardware issues are detected.


More than likely your laptop has a hardware issue. The two most likely things are a failing hard drive or a GPU failure since the 17" model is known to have GPU issues. A failing internal hard drive can prevent a computer from booting even to external media.


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MacBook Pro 17inch early 2011

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