I'm so sorry to say this but Apple is waiting for us to shut up.

Why are they replacing our Logic Boards with refurbished ones? Because they have already finished their stock of "new" ones.

Are they going to produce more Logic Boards? No, there is no business there, there is no profit, They DON'T care about us, they want us to consume their products and BUY new ones.

From my experience there are four options:

1. Temporary solutions like Reflow or Reballing.

2. Sell your Macbook as spare parts.

3. Keep paying Apple to replace your logic board with a refurbished one until the end of the days.

4. Use your Macbook as a cutting board.

Thanks for your time and I'm sorry again.

The other option is, after reballing and swapping GPU, configure it properly to never use DGPU and sell it for a few bucks to someone who's not going to need DGPU.

Hello to all you users with that irritating discrete graphics card that just refuses to cooperate and just function like it should!   I work for a company that fixes many of those laptops with that exact issue.  The majority of the issues have been the AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics chips and we have seen a few here and there of the NVidia graphics chips. 

The cause of the problem is overheating which causes oxidation of the solder balls and pads.

I have read through the forum and noticed that a few of you have been able to fix the problem by "baking" the board to reflow the solder balls holding those BGA chips in place.  True, this may work for a short while (weeks, months... sometimes even just a day or a few hours) and you may say, "Hey, I'll just bake it again when it fails"...  honestly, that's not a good idea.  Really, you want to put your board through excessive heat like that as little as possible, or you will start damaging other components and you will have a completely "toasted" board. 

In the beginning, our company used to  "bake" the boards as well, however most of these "baked" boards came back in a 3-6 month window for re-repair.  So we decided to do our research and figure out how to fix these problems for good and ended up going with a high quality BGA rework machine and have had a 90% success rate fixing the issue.

We spend time removing the BGA Graphics chips and cleaning the pads on the logic board to make sure there is a good clean surface so that the solder will hold strong and last.  Then we don't just reball the BGA chips and put them back, we replace them with new chips to ensure the repairs to last so that we don't have to work on them over and over... and over. 

Unfortunately, the only options are either to repair or replace the board. Repairing is the way to go in my opinion since you could replace the board with another one that could potentially have the same problem in a short amount of time and repairing is usually more economical.

Do a Google search for "mac component level repair" and you should be able to find at least a few companies that offer the service.

Best of luck.

21,000 push Apple to replace 'defective' MacBook Pros

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Every customer with problems should know how to Replace or Fix All 2011 Macbook Pro with Graphics Failure.

Where I can search for Replace or Fix All 2011 Macbook Pro with Graphics Failure?

KpOcK,

Could you be more specific about organizations that do the type of work that you are suggesting?

Unfortunately, I am not able to mention company names...   but if you do a Google search for "mac component level repair" you will be able to find a few companies that do offer it. 

The class action lawsuit has been filed against apple

Last weekend my 2011 MBP ended up with an odd looking display and I could not interact with the laptop at all.  I restarted it and it booted normally which was a relief however I saw this in the system logs:

Oct 26 02:18:00 mbp2 kernel[0]: Trying restart GPU ...

Oct 26 02:18:01 mbp2 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.DumpGPURestart): Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds

Oct 26 02:18:07 mbp2 kernel[0]: [1:0:0] GPU HangState 0x00000000, HangFlags 0x00000004: IndividualEngineHang 0, NonEngineBlockHang 0, FenceNotRetired 1, PerEngineReset 0, FullAsicReset 1

Oct 26 02:18:07 mbp2 kernel[0]: ** GPU ASIC Log Start **

Oct 26 02:18:07 mbp2 kernel[0]: : 0x00006741 : 0x00000092 : 0x00000001 : 0x00000018 : 0x0000b080 : 0x00000001 : 0x00000001 : 0x00006741

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Does this mean I'll need to replace my logic board soon?

HHappened  to me. 2 days ago, while watching a movie, my late 2011 MBP started flickering.  After a hard restart, screen went completely blank and now havent been able to turn it on since. Especially upsetting because I was just about to run Time machine.  Feel really let down by Apple and their failure to respond to this thread speaks volumes.

jsmoriss wrote:

 

Same issue with my late 2011 MBP (AMD Radeon HD 6770M GPU).

 

I'm using gfxCardStatus to force the use of the integrated GPU only (Intel HD Graphics 3000), but this means I cannot use my external 27" monitor -- the thunderbolt display apparently needs the discrete GPU and won't run on the internal GPU.

How convenient that I am able to re-use jsmoriss' words as he appears to exactly describe my hardware and its current state.

Here's my fun with my 2011 Macbook Pro

Apparently there's a class action lawsuit in the works....(see link below)

http://bit.ly/1wbfGRR

Reading around looks like that a lot of people, like me, had also HD failure on MBP 2011 !

The law firm handling the lawsuite has a post here about this: http://goo.gl/vrlkwM

There is a survey link in there for people that have had GPU related problems with their 2011 MacBook Pro.

Yes the lawsuit is here.

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