Q: 2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card

Csound1 wrote:

 

"Or, if you prefer, it's just me. Will you answer now?"

 

Certainly I will.

 

My business is actually none of your business.

 

 

speaking of which, you have no "business" being here since your 2011 mbp is working fine and you don't have anything to say related to the title of the subject, always showing up when you feel it's time to talk about the TOU with a little twist just to show how you think people are dumb..

so, still nothing to say about the thread?

Just a reminder for you that it is also none of your business.

Try to understand that this is a public forum, anyone who agrees to the Terms may post here. If you wish to control who can or can not post (or the topics they choose) you may start your own forum.

I was responding to "us" vs 'I" question, couldn't care less about the answer and your personal stuff.

just asked you if you finally had something to say related to title of this thread, don't wish to control anything in here but I hoped you would be able to control yourself, behave yourself too, the least.

you can't get points here helping people as you stated a few days ago, hope it's not what's holding you back and acting like you do.

akamyself wrote:

 

I was responding to "us" vs 'I" question, couldn't care less about the answer and your personal stuff.

 

just asked you if you finally had something to say related to title of this thread,

After you.....

so nice of you, but already did, own experience with relaying valuable information gathered here, so please go ahead now.

on the side, note that there's no need to be afraid to share personal stuff here, your behavior already says a lot (too much) about yourself anyway.

I got the same issue and had to replace the logic board as Apple suggested. I had to pay more than £400 to get it fixed. And it's been only few weeks since it was repaired, I started having full screen colour stripes and squares sometimes, it lasted only a second so I can't screen shot it.... also there's something wrong with displaying when I'm using Indesign and illustrator... Sigh...

blalab,

your post will be deleted mentioning and linking to petition.

now your options are going with Apple and paying for another logic board with same problem or finding someone to reball your gpu, which seems to be the best option as many here testified.

since the soldering is the problem, apart from the heat generated, and as Apple doesn't provide that can of job of computer parts, we ain't got much of a choice to get our computer working.

Yes, you are right. The post linking to the petition was deleted! Apple censorship at it's finest!

Shame on you Apple - not only are you ignoring the problem, you delete legitimate comments simply because they are critical of Apple.

Great work, Apple content police! Plus, if you keep ignoring this problem, eventually the machines will be obsolete, and people will have bought new machines from your competitors. So you don't have to worry about them, ever again.

hi Akamyself.. thanks for letting me know.. cool misnomer.. first time I've posted anything .. pretty much anywhere.. :-)  since I saved what I'd said I'll remove the offending whatever it was.. voici

+just want to add that I'm another guy getting the same problem with the graphics card.. MBP early 2011.. bought July 2011 .. started happening in June this year and has got progressively worse.. last night 3 kernel panics.. when it boots the screen displays lines and then starts overheating.. have to hard shutdown and try again..  if it boots without showing the lines it goes through to the login screen.. using GFXcardstatus v2.3 helps when its on integrated only.. but as soon as photoshop launches it freezes.. its obviously the card problem everyone is having.. (snip) seems pointless to have a new logic board etc installed since the problem will just come back.. or so I've read.. since all the boards manufactured at the time had the same defect.. an apple guy in catania, sicily, explained the scenario when it first happened.. and said not to bother getting it fixed.. nice of him ..  complete waste of time trying to sort it and to all intents and purposes the machine is pretty much bricked  ..  paid up for applecare on previous occasions.. but didn't this time.. so might just have got it replaced with a couple of weeks inside the 3 years.. but clearly if its lapsed sods law sods justice.. remember reading at the time that ifixit had said there might be issues with the globs of heat paste.. didn't expect to be impacted.. ach..

here’s a pic..

just my tuppence..

good thing you saved it & welcome to the club too.

you can forget about using photoshop and any adobe software, hope you're not a designer.

as I said, try to find a reballer in your country, there's a few watching this thread and few places to find addresses on the net.

obviously, can't post these links.

good luck

hi A again. might not get a lot of luck with a reballer around here.  I'm in Mauritius  .. save it for when I get back to EU. and hope to find one there,.although there are some new Macpeople ... maybe mention to them.. see whether they know what it means :-)  .  thanks for the advice.. been wondering what to do for the last month..

ok I understand the problem to find one then!

you'll find some reballers in EU, like England, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands... Many countries.

in the meantime avoid restarting the computer, be patient if you do cause it might need a few ones to get to the login screen.

once running, you'll know what you can or can't launch after a while...

can also install a linux distro and disabling the gpu but you won't get adobe products, though.

good luck to you

Wow, it took no time at all for the Apple Police to delete my last post. You guys are really on the ball today.

Hmm, is it possible they've created a bot to delete posts?

You know, Apple has always danced to the tune of it's own drummer. It's one of the things I like about them. But refusing to address very real hardware issues and deleting posts calling them out for it is just plain going too far!

Is this REALLY the legacy that the esteemed Mr. Jobs has left behind? Shame on you Apple!

blalab wrote:

using GFXcardstatus v2.3 helps when its on integrated only.. but as soon as photoshop launches it freezes.

Just to clarify, blalab: when you have gfxcardstatus in Integrated Only mode, Photoshop freezes on launch.  Is that correct?

Csound1 wrote:

 

"Or, if you prefer, it's just me. Will you answer now?"

 

Certainly I will.

 

My business is actually none of Your business.

 

 

Thas is not an answer; that's evasion.