MacBook Pro 2011 17" hard freeze

Otro Mac Book "PRO" afectado. Un equipo de 2011, 15". Ha fallecido en menos de 3 años de vida. Diagnóstico: tarjeta grafica y quizas 'puente norte' kaput.

Es increible que equipos de más de 2000 euros estén teniendo esta mierda de vida util. Con un uso doméstico normal, ademas!. Solo arranca en modo seguro. Ninguna otra solución encontrada de entre las muchas planteadas por mi mismo, por applecare (abrí un par de excepciones) o por servicio técnico. Espero que APPLE se digne abrir un programa de reparación gratuita de una vez, porque no es normal los miles de afectados que está habiendo.

Another affected MBP 2011 15". 😟 3 years old and...die!

Diagnosis: graphics card and maybe 'northbridge' kaput.

It's amazing that more than 2000 euros machines like these are taking this **** lifespan. With Domestic use. Only boots in safe mode. No other solution found among the many raised by myself, by applecare (I opened a couple of exceptions) or technical services. I hope APPLE deign to open a free repair program, because it is not normal to existis thousands of affected machines.

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THANK YOU Saramwrap, Hnrk and others!! 🙂

After going through this entire post/skimming a good bit of it and seeing the available additional options, I'm going to go with the disable option. I'm on my #2 logic board [repaired in mid 2012]. I have been forced back to running the gfxcardstatus software. I had to boot 5 times yesterday and quickly navigated to the software before it had a chance to freeze. While this temporary solution will be in effect, I will begin investing in a custom PC [which will be more powerful and still cheaper! Been a nice-ish run with Apple, but I'll refrain from getting other products for a very long time].

Also, when I did the kextstat in command, I only saw 'ATI6000Controller' & 'ATISupport'. I take it i'll have to disable the 'ATI6000Controller.kext' file? I'll give it a shot and hopefully that solves things for now. For those currently repeating the same inquiries, go through the thread. Page 130 is a good place to start.

Good luck! 😉

I'm another victim of same failure. It happened last week. It kinda works for a while if I only use it for browsing web and some basic work, with smcFanControl running 100% rpm all the time. I did contact my local Premium Reseller to acknowledge the issue and pass it to apple. I will, as the procedure goes, contact official apple support, but I doubt they will deliver any permanent solution.

mc723 15-inch, Early 2011

Add me to the list.

It started with maverick. Color would change when switching from one user to another.

Fans always full speed.

That was 5 or 6 months ago.

Then 2 days ago, blue screen. then distortion, im struggling to turn it on every time, sometime after 2 hours of restarting, safe or repair mode.

Im suing gfxCradStatus but it doesnt help me much, cause as soon as the computer is off, when i start it, it goes back to the discrete card, all over again.

The 1 year limited warranty that you are most likely still under if this is a new purchase should cover this. I would read the warranty to be certain though.

http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/

I believe you need an ASSP not service center. http://solutionprofessionals.apple.com/aasp/ If it were my computer I'd fix it myself, but that's me.

Hi, I believe I am having a similar problem to yours. Funny pixels and 3 loud beeps repeated endlessly.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3299954

My post above. Sound familiar?

See my post anyone else having problems with macbook pro late 2011

I'm also very annoyed that the new models don't come with recovery disks!

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088

@smoKie_eStatic You need to contact AppleCare about your MBP; I understand they have flat-rate depot repair pricing if your machine is out of warranty.

http://www.apple.com/contact/