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Apple replaced a failed chip with a failing chip. Not 're-balling', not 'reflowing', not 'baking'. The only real way to fix this problem is to replace the AMD chip alone. The Apple Repair Extension program is not available anymore. Only with a threatened class-action law suit Apple was finally pressured into offering a so called 'Repair Extension Program'. This scandal took on the name of RadeonGate. Apple knew this and acted like a typical Soapy Smith, only reacting to this after an outrage. The thermal management and the generated heat together with the robustness of the discrete AMD graphics chips do not match up very well. its been almos two months since I tried this) It saves you a lot of frustration!!!Īll MacBook Pros from 2011 have a serious design defect. Please Spread this fix to all users you know with this issue. This MBP was repaired under the Apple Extension Repair plan in 2015 and failed again in 2018. This Article I found made mi MBP2011 boot again using only the i7 Intel HD3000!!! No Safe Mode 256 colors and slow graphic issues. I had to try a couple of times and clean it before I got the screen to work again. It worked for me, but its an awkward cable to reconnect.

Some people had issue with re-connecting the LCD cable. I put in a mid 2012 board-with the heat sinks still attached and that solved the problem. BUT the mid2012 motherboard corrected the issue and can directly replace the 2011 one (not the late2012 board, that's when Apple upgraded to the retina display). Controlling the temperature might help or postpone the problem. Apparently its a solder joint somewhere on the GPU getting thermally stressed and cracks. I took it to Apple in 2015 and they explained it was a known logic board issue and repaired it even though it was out of warranty. Gets worse over time and leads to a frozen computer. This is very handy for trying to see what apps are draining your battery.I had the problem on my mid-2011 15' powerbook pro-blocks of pixels flashing in random places around the screen, both on the LCD and the connected monitor. They will be listed in the menu section that shows which card is used. If you are noticing the computer switching to power-hungry discrete graphics and can’t figure out what application might be causing this, the app will give you a list of which programs cause the switch from the drop down menu. You might want the latter when you are running low on battery life but can’t plug-in. This can increase performance when plugged in and increase battery life when unplugged. There are preferences which allow you to tell it to set the graphics card to the less battery hungry integrated graphics when your computer is unplugged or to automatically turn on the more powerful discrete graphics card when you are plugged into power.

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The drop down menu gives options including selection of the Intel only, AMD or NVIDIA only or Dynamic Switching, which is the default for the MacBook Pro and lets the computer decide automatically. In addition, if you would like to manually switch the computer between the two, you simply click the menu icon.

The app will run in the background and any time the computer switches it will give you an onscreen notification (see above and below).

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It is a free app which you can get from the developer’s website. gfxcardstatus is a lightweight utility that runs in your menu bar and tells you exactly when that happens with on-screen notification.

It is nice to know when the higher powered discrete graphics card is being used. The benefit is higher power when needed, but lower power consumption on the integrated graphics for ordinary tasks. Integrated graphics are for ordinary applications like Microsoft Word and a Twitter client. From an automotive analogy think of dynamic switching graphics as switching to four-wheel drive when driving off-road and two-wheel drive for driving around town.

A high-powered gaming card is for more intense applications like Photoshop or Call of Duty. Having dynamic switching graphics is like being able to open the computer and put in a different graphics card for different scenarios, except you don’t have to dissect your MacBook Pro. The difference between integrated and discrete graphics is power – both consumption and horsepower to get work done. When your system needs a lot of graphics processing power for things like video encoding, picture editing or especially gaming, the computer switches from lowered powered integrated graphics to higher powered discrete graphics. The MacBook Pro has what is called switchable or dynamic switching graphics. If you ever want to know which graphics card your Apple MacBook Pro is using, then gfxcardstatus is the perfect utility.

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