Q: 2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card
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Jun 5, 2014 4:24 AMby DIESEL-X,Also, is it not part of UK law (for affected owners in the UK) that products should not become faulty from manufacturing defects and design flaws for up to 5 Years (or is it 6 yrs)?
Lastly, until I finally realised that my early 2011 17" MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,3) had this fatal manufacturing-design defect/flaw, I had (before then) done just about everything that could be done as an owner & user of this machine - i.e. reinstalled the system from scratch more times than I can remember after formatting the internal boot drive and trying different versions of OS X as well just to make sure, also resetting the SMC and resetting the NVRAM more recently, running hardware analysis programs such as Tech Tool Pro and DriveDX, verifying Disk, repairing permissions, clearing caches, etc, however the random intermittent issue would still come and go to much frustration.
However I would like to know what procedure completely resets and clears down the Mac in such a way that it no longer remembers certain things like my Bluetooth keyboard which appears to be ALWAYS paired and linked regardless of what I do wether reinstalling the system from scratch or all the above mentioned; because the system has not required pairing with the usual on-screen random password being generated for pairing as it had done a long time ago when it was first paired - strange. This gives me reason to suspect that some kind of non-volatile memory state that has certain parameters and settings altered and added to it over time in which it's information storing is perpetual as the SMC and NVRAM reset procedure did not require repairing of my Apple Bluetooth keyboard. I can't help but wonder if some kind of graphical related or indirectly related settings or state may also be held in such perpetual memory that over time could become corrupted in certain instances. If this kind of 'memory parameter/settings storage' exist within these affected models of MacBook Pro on maybe a non-volatile IC, is there a way of factory resetting this... Just a long shot and I'm probably clutching at straws.
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Jun 5, 2014 3:57 AMby Louis_Lin,Another one here. I bought my laptop in Hongkong and this issue started happening just over a year. I have been using gfxCardStatus to workaround this problem and every time restarting my laptop makes me worried. I am an Apple person, but Apple, you make me hate you on this issue!!!
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Jun 5, 2014 4:45 AMby yohhoho,Well, just got a call from a local service, they offered to replace 17" MBP (late 2011) board for about $600.
Does it worth the money or better to buy a new mac for next couple of years?
The screen below I got every time I try to boot in recovery mode. It doesn`t look georgeous!
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Jun 5, 2014 8:56 AMby nudoru,On my sencond logic board, after 2 weeks of problems, 3 genius appointments and numerous conversations with corporate relations and everyone involved - they're replacing my logic board for free in store. The issue for me was very sporadic and it took the three visits to catch my laptop on a bad day and today was it. I'm very satisfied with the experience I've had.
I didn't request this level of service - I was just nice, patient and friendly to deal with desipite all of the frustations involved. Apple treated me the same and I'm very happy with them.
I know people here have had mixed experiences, but as a few recent posts have said: niceness counts.
The first logic board was replaced as a depot repair in October for $310.
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Jun 5, 2014 12:02 PMby Hal Feldman,Fingers crossed!
My 17" Late 2011 MBP is back from depot with the replaced Logic Board. For some reason, they also replaced my 3rd-party RAM.
It boots. I hope the repair lasts and I'll be reporting here if otherwise. I am also going to be in touch with my case advisors at Apple and make sure they don't close the case.
I hope for the best, but fear this won't last.
At least I am back in operation!
