Q: 2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card
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Nov 11, 2013 1:09 PMby apple_power,elihidalgo wrote:
hey i am looking forward to try this.. unfortunately my dot key has not been working for a couple of months so i cant do that (just my luck)
is there any other way to achieve the same result??
thanks for your help
Yes, you can try this:
OK, try this:
1. Let you Mac cool down and remove any external display.
2. Boot it and press cmd-s (Comand key + S) for single user boot.
3. Wait until the the you can enter a comand (the prompt is root#)
4. Type 'exit' and wait until the familiar login screen apears.
5. As soon as your Finder comes up (if you have lots of Apps open, close them all) go to
System/Library/Extensions and create a new folder (you can name however you like) and move all the AMD and maybe also the ATI files into that new folder.
Enjoy your
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Nov 11, 2013 1:12 PMby apple_power,MacforSound wrote:
I believe it worked, I loged into my account how can I check if it worked?
In the Finder go to System/Library/Extensions and check whats in the _temp folder, in the Extensions folder should be no AMD file anymore. To be sure you can also move any ATI file to the _temp folder.
Enjoy your
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Nov 11, 2013 2:10 PMby Jonathan Ryan,I wanted to share my experience with this issue and my MBP in general. This was my 4th Apple laptop, and in fact I bought two of these at the time, the other for my business partner. It has now been replaced by rMBP.
My first issue had to do with a faulty MagSafe adapter. The adapter would be plugged in, the charge icon would show in the menubar, the light would be on the adapter, but it wasn't actually charging all the time. Song story short this eventually trashed my battery which had to be replaced. I had to replace the MagSafe adapter as well. On my dime, $250ish. The tech who replaced it said the batter failed much sooner then it should have. Fail #1.
I called Apple about this issue. I told them that I had gone through my console logs and discoverd the my computer had been shutting down randomly during the first year of owning the laptop. At the time I had no idea this was related to the power adapter not working correctly per above.
GPU. I never felt like this laptop was preforming well, something always seemed to be off about it, and it got really hot. Several months ago when I had the battery replaced the GPU went out after only having it back for a few days. The tech who did my battery did the full diagnostic, siad it was the GPU, need a new daughterboard yada yada $500. He said it was odd the GPU failed so early. Fail #2.
I again called up Apple about this issue, and as well as the MagSafe problem. I talked to a support person, explained the issue, was told to send it in. I asked for the manager and talked with them. He told me they weren't aware of this issue. WHAT? "You aren't aware of this, there is a story about it on one of the Mac sites and there are tons of messages on your forum about it". He played dumb.
This is the worst Apple product I have ever owned, by far. I don't think it's unreasonable for me to expect a $2000 laptop to last longer then 2 years. I don't care if Apple care is only one year. If I wanted a computer that only lasted two years I would have bought an Asus or something.
Apple you need to own up to this issue and make things right with your customers.
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Nov 11, 2013 3:08 PMby apple_power,solid648 wrote:
Can someone post a number and reference link that we could call to collectively make complaints about this issue just so there's no doubt apple is aware of the issue?
No need for that, someone already made an email to Tim Cook and I filed that problem also to Apple. But you can file a Bug Report via this page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html
Enjoy your
