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MacBook Pro 2011 17" hard freeze

Overheat? The fans revved and suddenly I could use nothing but the cursor. Had to hold down the power switch to kill all and then re-power & startup. I wasn't doing anything unusual, but I had 7 apps open and was amid an auto-backup to TimeMachine.

Just a little disillusioned and concerned, wondering if anyone else there has experienced a hard freeze like this.

macbook pro 17" 2011, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 1, 2011 11:15 AM

2,292 replies

Dec 2, 2013 2:55 PM in response to Rensoom

Same problem here.

jeremix

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0 points

Dec 3, 2013 10:16 AM in response to guaranna

But you're right, if it can help others > it's totally possible to boot in target mode from another Mac even if the early 2011 mbp can't boot anymore with its own hardware...

AeRider

Level 1

0 points

Dec 5, 2013 8:11 AM in response to Rensoom

Macbook pro Late 2011 2.4 GHz quad-core intel Core i7 AMD Radeon HD 6770m freezing And won't boot.

Dec 10, 2013 8:49 AM in response to MattiX

ja .i have had the same problem so many times .and i tok it to a service but it still does the same thing.

Purkinje

Level 1

5 points

Dec 28, 2013 2:25 AM in response to Kristian_F

FYI, Kristian's response to be found at "the start of this thread" is really on pages 115-120 😉.

samoo

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30 points

Jan 11, 2014 9:55 AM in response to samoo

Can someone explain in a simple way what "pointer being freed was not allocated" means ? I`m getting that error message in my logs.

bprogess

Level 1

5 points

Jan 19, 2014 2:58 PM in response to Rensoom

I just turned on my Macbook Pro and it gave me a message of "there is a problem" and now it's frozen. The wheel just keeps turning.

Jan 20, 2014 10:14 PM in response to yuhan

yuhan wrote:

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I'm not sure how your picture is relevant, yuhan...

Jan 23, 2014 7:36 AM in response to Rensoom

I have same problem! Macbook pro late 2011 serial number: C02FG69YDF91 and GPU AMD Radeon 6750M

Jan 27, 2014 2:23 PM in response to ProteoMX

Hello ProteoMX

I'm live in Mexico Cancun and I have the same problem with my macbook pro 15"

I was buy my macbook in June-Jul-2011

My site is www.victorherrera.com.mx. Please can you help me 🙂

Ptike

Level 1

4 points

Jan 31, 2014 9:29 AM in response to Karl Ihrig

Jan 31, 2014 9:27 AM in response to victorherrera

Please take a picture and share so we can help each other i have a 15' very expensive paperweigth too.

Jan 29, 2014 4:26 PM in response to Rensoom

http://www.macworld.com.au/news/gpu-failures-in-2011-macbook-pros-117933/#.UumcA XddWi8

rdbrwn

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14 points

Mar 7, 2014 7:58 PM in response to Ptike

People reported, that under Mavericks thing are getting worse, and I am trying to downgrade from Mavericks to SnowLeopard, but I dont think I can find suitable copy for my machine (early 2011 MBP)...

Csound1

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Mar 8, 2014 2:24 AM in response to rdbrwn

What was on the Mac when it was new?

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