Early 2011 macbook pro gpu repair install#
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Early 2011 macbook pro gpu repair pro#

Note the text which states this may decrease battery life on the MacBook Pro вЂњWhen automatic switching is disabled, your computer will always use high-performance graphics.

Uncheck the box next to вЂњAutomatic graphics switchingвЂќ.

Go to the пЈї Apple menu and choose вЂњSystem PreferencesвЂќ and then go to вЂњEnergyвЂќ control panel.

This will disable GPU switching and force the MacBook Pro to use the higher powered discrete graphics card rather than the integrated GPU.

Early 2011 macbook pro gpu repair install#

To turn off the dual graphics capability of the GPU, install gfxCardStatusВ for Mac

Early 2011 macbook pro gpu repair free#

IвЂ™ve saved about twenty 2011 15вЂќ MBP using this gem, itвЂ™s also free -) It uses a completely different GPU and will last you a good while into the foreseeable future. You may need to do a slight modification to the LCD cable to get it to fit in the new board. These use a different chip and will work. If you have a 15 inch, I'd say get a 2012 board for it. You can replace the battery with easy contrary to the 2012 and up Retina. These machines are nice as far as serviceability. The heat involved in reballing will do the same thing that a $30 heatgun from home depot will do. This again will only last for a short amount of time. Heat will make the chip work for a short amount of time. Sellers on ebay that claim to replace the GPUs are more often than not heating the chip up with a heatgun. Most supposed 'New' AMD chipsets are either rejects or reballed garbage, so while soldering a new chip to the board is not a problem, getting a good chip that can last and be reliable is. Note: You will probably have to do this all again when doing any system updates and from my experience even security updates.So with these, pretty much any chips we can get for them will not last very long. Hope this helps anybody else with the same problem. Important! This is up to you but I would suggest doing a Time Machine backup just to be safe.

Now your mac should be booting normally without any issues, if not then there really is more than a graphics card issue. On the screen that loads choose the following in the menu Utilities -> Terminal. Now reboot into Recovery mode using CMD + R. Now we are more or less repeating the same as Step 1.

Early 2011 macbook pro gpu repair update#

Now update the timestamps of the driver cache without the AMD drivers.

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Now once done lets delete the kext drivers cache. sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/AMD*.* /amd-backup-kexts/

Then move all of the drivers with a wildcard naming. So first make a backup directory to copy them into. Now we are going to move all the AMD graphics card drivers, so best to make a copy of them rather than deleting them all. Try using /sbin/mount if you get mount command not found Once done mount the MacBook Pro hard drive by adding. Now in the terminal add the following, which will fix any disk permissions before we do anything. On reboot go back into single user mode by holding down the CMD + S keys. When csrutil is disabled we can now move kexts and delete system folders. On the screen that loads choose a language then on the screen which appears next choose the following options in the menu Utilities -> Terminal - see below. The terminal will now be on the screen.ДЇirst input. So first reboot your Macbook Pro into single user mode by holding down the CMD + S keys. But I had two problems - I had no permissions when trying to disable the csrutil and when trying the same with Recovery Mode - CMD + R I had the blue lines on black screen appearing, but the below sorted it for me. Now there are other solutions that say at first boot into Recovery Single User Mode - CMD + R + S. The solution is to change your energy settings and make sure the screen saver animation options are always active.

NOTE: One known issue to this solution (and maybe others) is that when the screen goes to sleep/black it no longer wakes up, therefore needing a forced reboot. Now there are several solutions on the web but this is the only one that worked for me running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6+) and what was worst for me is that the MacBook Pro was stuck in looping reboot. If you are suffering from the infamous blue lines on the black screen on startup or random reboots then you maybe suffering from an AMD graphics card hardware issue with your later 2011 Macbook Pro laptop.