problems with amd gpu on early 2011 macbook pro

hey


been having problems for the last couple of weeks on lion os and now mountain lion and need some advice

i'm guessing its the graphics card a amd 6750m as when it swithches to the gpu the screen glitches and freezes, ive tried the apple hardware test and it passed that

then i did a gpu test with a novatech bench test and crashed nearly straight away

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it's nearly 2 years old and out of apple warranty but i'm sure under EU law it should be 2 years

whats my options

cheers

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 27, 2012 1:58 PM

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Jan 11, 2014 4:03 AM in response to djanderz

My early 2011 15" Macbook Pro is now fried also. Light green screen on start up and blue screen of death when attemped recovery mode. Apple are well aware of this. Seems they would rather hustle thier customers than admot a mistake and lose face. It's a no lose situation for them. 3rd and most exopensive Mac I've ever owned. |The other two although now obselet actually still function. I need this for work and cannot see myself paying the ridiculous amounts they're quoting people here for repairs. Going to the genius bar on Friday and am going to speak to the manager and cause a stink of they give me the company line. Come on Apple, You have more money than many nations on this planet earth. Do the right thing by your customers and recall.

Jan 17, 2014 12:13 PM in response to djanderz

OK, so my baked MacBook is down, again (or almost).


Yes, it was a temporary fix, indeed, but thats exactly what I needed it to be.


There are few issues to address when talking about GPU failures. If your problem is solder cracking or some kind of "miscommunication" between your gpu and logicboard (and not a gpu failure itself) than, as it turns out, you should not use your laptop anymore if you don't want to damage it.


Here's the thing: if your GPU isn't properly connected to your logic board (even though it still "catches up" and you are able to boot) than your power supply has to send incredible ammounts of electricity to power it, much more than it normaly does. What it results in is your power supply going down (as my did), your battery going down much faster plus theres a risk of other logic board components being broken (especially those sensitive ones, like LEDs, network card).


There is actually a very simple way to tell if given MB is in good GPU condition or not. First thing - if you notice that it takes long, or longer than usually, for mac to turn the screen on than it is going down! Also, if you plug in your power adapter and you notice a lag of some kind between plugging it in and the green diode lightning up, and than switching to orange one than the mac is going down as well. Also if you notice some electric charges going out of your mag safe (or even flames) than you are in trouble.

Jan 19, 2014 3:28 AM in response to djanderz

+1

Same Problem here, MacBookPro8,2 early 2011 gpu failure last June.. 500 € here in Italy to replace the logic board (from Apple Store).


It'a a shame..


And the point is.. who have bought a 2000€ machine to visit social sites would just never come into trouble..

instead who has bought what "should" be the best on the market, in 2 year of intense use.. have to pay 500 € for a logic board replace.


Really disappointed.

Jan 19, 2014 3:50 AM in response to djanderz

While this is a smaller post than that at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577?tstart=0, there are almost 2,800 posts with both combined. Smaller publications/web news sites seem to have picked up on the story but the major players have not. We need some more PR here, folks, so if you know anyone in the mainstream tech news industry, direct them to both threads.


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