Q: 2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card
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Aug 15, 2014 3:15 AMby xslippery,To exofes,
I appreciate your attempt to add solidity to the Gfxcardstatus tool with your swithGPU tool and I appreciate your apology.
However, I do not appreciate the fact you released this product with a now known bug nor do I appreciate your attitude that it's not possible for your switchGPU to introduce further problems into our already severely crippled and fragile mbp's. Because it did. Your switchGPU tool somehow crippled Gfxcardstatus so that it went back to discrete and I could no longer enagle integrated. Until installing your POS switchGPU tool, the Gfscardstatus tool has always worked as originally intended.
Last night and today I spent 3 hours trying to get into a bootable state and for the first time ever I thought my mbp was completely done for because the bug you introduced crippled the Gfxcardstatus tool so that it could no longer switch from discrete to integrated.
Once I was able to eventually get a login prompt, I removed your POS switchGPU tool and the Gfxcardstatus tool, I then reinstalled the Gfxcardstatus tool and was then able to switch it back to "integrated".
Furthermore, I do not appreciate your presumption that my mbp is continually "getting worse" just as yours is. Although your guess could be correct, my mbp has already gone through all those failing stages and about a month ago I was able to return to a stable albeit limited and fragile state. That is until I installed your POS switchGPU tool last night.
It's an imperfect world, as Apple has demonstrated with the 2011 mbp's, leaving many of us hanging by a thread off a very big cliff. But your switchGPU with its bug was the equivalent of throwing me a 30 lbs. cinder block, when I'm already hanging by a thread.
I appreciate your failed attempt to add stability to this very delicate situation and ultimately I blame only myself for taking further risk with my now fragile-as-an-egg and crippled mbp.
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On another note for others.
As I tried to get back to a stable state today, I tried to pay attention to the various steps and PRAM and SMC resets, etc that eventually cause the OS to reboot with graphics control reset to point at the integrated rather than the discrete chip.
I did reset the PRAM and SMC several times but to no avail.
I tried using the CMD + r key combo at reboot to initiate an internet recovery but to no avail.
I then tried the Option + CMD + r key combo at reboot and it too failed but the very next reboot brought me a login prompt and enough stability to immediately remove the swithGPU and then reinstall the Gfxcardstatus tool and then I was able to set the Gfxcardstatus tool integrated.
As I recall, the Option + CMD + r key combo at boot had worked once before so maybe this is the combo that points the OS back to the integrated chip.
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Aug 15, 2014 4:53 AMby DMC440,Csound1 wrote:
sydney606 wrote:
Well, everybody can subscribe and should judge own their own. If you feel this way, it is fine by me.
It has nothing to do with how I might feel, that is the rules of this site, rules that apply to everyone, even you.
As Captain Barbossa said, "more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules", being implemented as inconsistently as they are. Your dogmatic repetition of their supposed significance is trite and meaningless.
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Aug 15, 2014 5:04 AMby DMC440,Csound1 wrote:
Nope, they are rules, specifically they are the Terms of Use for the site. You may see them as guidelines only but that says far more about you than it does about the TOU.
I'm just observing that they are not being rigidly enforced as rules. Talk about straw men.
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Aug 15, 2014 5:15 AMby DMC440,Csound1 wrote:
I'll just observe that neither of us has any clue regarding the logic behind any removals, you are just speculating again (which is of course contrary to what you term 'guidelines')
Not my term - blame Jack Sparrow. Speculating - yes; again? Don't recall. Nice to see you admit to some cluelessness. Can you go a step further and tell us why you bother infiltrating the thread with repeated references to the ToU? It benefits no one.
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Aug 15, 2014 5:22 AMby akamyself,Csound1 wrote:
Can you go a step further and tell us
Are you claiming to represent others, or is this just your opinion?
you can count me in, so that makes 'us' legitimate term to use.
answering a question with another question is not polite while that is you being consistent though...
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Aug 15, 2014 5:22 AMby DMC440,DMC440 wrote:
DMC440 wrote:
Csound1 wrote:
Can you go a step further and tell us
Are you claiming to represent others, or is this just your opinion?
I represent everyman. And you are avoiding the question.
Or, if you prefer, it's just me. Will you answer now?
Even if you don't prefer.
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Aug 15, 2014 5:27 AMby DMC440,Sorry, everyone. I'll stop now. Way off topic, clearly against the rules, and quite boring. Off to bed.
I will post something about my MBP shortly, if only to demonstrate that I have a reason to be here. Battling the cowardly trolls is a tiresome and ultimately fruitless exercise.
