Q: 2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card

"No need to be disappointed, even Apple products can fail as they are  made from standard components like other PC's too."

THEN WHY DID I PAY TWICE THE PRICE???

* Writing this from my new HP laptop with more power and half the price of a MBP. Bye bye Apple.

Now i tell you what happened. It was on sleep for about 1 hour and nothing was running so i opened the lid and there was nothing a black screen so after that waiting for 15 mins nothing came up and then i forced to switch it off and after 30mins i booted again and it showed the apple logo and boot sound but the screen had red horizontal lines all over the screen after that apple logo goes and it just leaves the laptop with white screen and fan goes on and laptop got hot in 2 mins so i turned it off. Now i don't now what to do.

That's it what happend and now i all my work will be on hold for a long time untill the fix comes cuz i am not gonna spend 500$ for the repair. And which is even not my fault.

@ Taranbeer

Taranbeer wrote:

 

Now i tell you what happened. It was on sleep for about 1 hour and nothing was running so i opened the lid and there was nothing a black screen so after that waiting for 15 mins nothing came up and then i forced to switch it off and after 30mins i booted again and it showed the apple logo and boot sound but the screen had red horizontal lines all over the screen after that apple logo goes and it just leaves the laptop with white screen and fan goes on and laptop got hot in 2 mins so i turned it off. Now i don't now what to do.

That's it what happend and now i all my work will be on hold for a long time untill the fix comes cuz i am not gonna spend 500$ for the repair. And which is even not my fault.

OK, try this:

1. Let you Mac cool down and remove any external display.

2. Boot it and press cmd-s (Command key + S) for single user boot.

3. Wait until the the you can enter a command (the prompt is root#)

4. Type 'exit' and wait until the familiar login screen appears.

5. As soon as your Finder comes up (if you have lots of Apps open, close them all)  download gfxCardStatus, start it and select 'Integrated Only'

This helped me

Enjoy your 

All thing was done and actually after writing the "exit" the white screen comes up and nothing else happens and now it stayed at it only and now again macbook is getting really hot and so i turned it off again.

No luck with this also.

Taranbeer wrote:

 

All thing was done and actually after writing the "exit" the white screen comes up and nothing else happens and now it stayed at it only and now again macbook is getting really hot and so i turned it off again.

No luck with this also.

Do you have an external display connected? If so you need to disconnect it first.

Enjoy your 

No external display and i haven't ever joined one also.

Taranbeer wrote:

 

No external display and i haven't ever joined one also.

Can you boot in recovery mode? (hold cmd + r while booting)

If yes run the 'Repair Disk' and 'Repair Disk Permissions'

Enjoy your 

Just tried doing that and it gave me a blue vertical lines all over the screen nothing else. No recovery mode nothing. Again same old story no luck.

In my case,

1) Boot it and press cmd-V (Command key + V) for verbose boot: GREY SCREEN

2) Force shutdown (hold the power button)

3) Turn on the computer.

if can not, repeat all steps,

also try resetting the PRAM about 10 times in a row

be patient, and do not forget to send a complaint to apple citing this thread

Enjoy your 

and as said Apple Power:

As soon as your Finder comes up (if you have lots of Apps open, close them all)  download gfxCardStatus, start it and select 'Integrated Only'

so can try replacing the thermal paste from the CPU and GPU. You can still be time to "save it". Look for an experienced and use a good quality thermal paste with 90% silver. It is an attempt, as several other

Enjoy your 

@ Taranbeer

@ FredBrazil

Taranbeer wrote:

 

Just tried doing that and it gave me a blue vertical lines all over the screen nothing else. No recovery mode nothing. Again same old story no luck.

So there is one more thing you can try, run the 'Hardware Test'.

Insert your original installer DVD, the one labeled 'Applications Install DVD' and hold the "D" key while booting. Run the test in the Extended mode.

Enjoy your 

FredBrazil wrote:

 

and as said Apple Power:

 

As soon as your Finder comes up (if you have lots of Apps open, close them all)  download gfxCardStatus, start it and select 'Integrated Only'

 

so can try replacing the thermal paste from the CPU and GPU. You can still be time to "save it". Look for an experienced and use a good quality thermal paste with 90% silver. It is an attempt, as several other

 

Enjoy your 

I never did post anything about 'replacing thermal paste'!!!

Do you try to fake my posts?

Enjoy your 

Sorry that even did nothing good... these are the pics of what comes on when i boot.

https://db.tt/EMyX6hxT

https://db.tt/S58O98RZ

and after the white screen laptop gets too hot again. Tried pram, command v, command s (single user) still no luck.

Maybe he just copied your post and added more to it. I won't be opening the laptop and doing all those stuff it's to risky. And i still have no luck to it. Should i get it diagnosed tomorrow from apple to see whats the prob but won't get it repaired untill they recall this fix.

Taranbeer wrote:

 

Maybe he just copied your post and added more to it. I won't be opening the laptop and doing all those stuff it's to risky. And i still have no luck to it. Should i get it diagnosed tomorrow from apple to see whats the prob but won't get it repaired untill they recall this fix.

Absolutely right, don't open the MacBook and try to fix it for your self, never…

Can you post some pictures from the boot sequence when you try to boot into the Diagnostic mode?

Enjoy your 