Damn it, I just new it was the GPU! So glad I held on to it! Its been in a couple of time and they offered to change the MB for too much money. I've tried different RAM, different SSDs. Its an old 2011 17" with the AMD GPU. Made my appointment already!
MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
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Re: MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
#12I have a mid-2010 13" MBP (wrong year, wrong size) that's doing stuff that sounds like their listed symptoms. Not sure if it's just randomly going bad or if they haven't determined for certain that other models are affected as well.
Have the same model with the NV graphics, and have had occasional video glitching since I bought it refurbished. Crashes were rare until Yosemite, and perhaps my DP port is getting funky. I've wondered if these are also semi-defective, but it hasn't been well publicized. In any case I've gotten a ton of mileage out of it.
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#13My Late 2013 rMBP restarts randomly all the time. Should I go to Apple and ask for a replacement?
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#14I have worked on 6 units of 2011 MacBook Pro that had this issues. Two of them were repaired out-of-warranty, which cost $210+tax for parts and $100 for labor.
I talked to AppleCare rep a few hours ago and Apple will refund me the repair cost.
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#15My Late 2013 rMBP restarts randomly all the time. Should I go to Apple and ask for a replacement?
Check the serial number. Either way, I've yet to be completely disappointed by a trip to the Apple Store (with a pre-scheduled appointment and something to do on my phone while waiting). Even if out-of-warranty, they'll give you a free diagnosis and tell you how much it costs to fix. It wouldn't surprise me if it's entirely covered by this repair program.
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#16Well I had one of those 2011 MBPs that failed in this way...this was after my warranty expired and clearly before this repair was issued. They told me it would cost me like $350 or $400 or something to replace the motherboard on the thing. Ended up buying a new MBP and selling the bricked one for $100. There was an enormous thread spanning several years on the apple support forums, so it's a good thing they waited un…
Same exact sentiment here with 2012 rMBP. Had to sell it for much lower and grabbed a new one. The NVIDIA GPU was faulty and it worked fine on Intel only. No way they reimburse the damage.
Re: MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
#17Well I had one of those 2011 MBPs that failed in this way...this was after my warranty expired and clearly before this repair was issued. They told me it would cost me like $350 or $400 or something to replace the motherboard on the thing. Ended up buying a new MBP and selling the bricked one for $100. There was an enormous thread spanning several years on the apple support forums, so it's a good thing they waited un…
I got someone at the Apple Store to replace my board a couple years ago.
I'd made a couple trips over a year. Initially, I stopped the reboot by not using the discreet card then I foolishly upgraded to a Mac OS X beta at WWDC then my machine rebooted quite frequently. Tried to grab an engineer to demonstrate the problem but the kernel guys were the only ones who I thought could track it down but I missed them.
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#18Huh, I was having all these issues after upgrading to Yosemite but 10.10.2 seems to have fixed it. Wonder if this is still worth looking into?
Well, at least now you have until early 2016 if anything does come up...
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#19I have given up on buying laptops with dGPUs - Post Sandy Bridge Intel's GPU is more than what a non-gaming machine needs and I certainly don't need the battery loss and added heat.
(These dGPU related repair issues seems like the are an Apple only thing though - my work laptop has a Nvidia GPU and it is running most of the times due to sleep/wake issues - no other problems in the past 4 years. Haven't heard of any other manufacturers having similar issues recently either.)
Re: MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
#20I have given up on buying laptops with dGPUs - Post Sandy Bridge Intel's GPU is more than what a non-gaming machine needs and I certainly don't need the battery loss and added heat. (These dGPU related repair issues seems like the are an Apple only thing though - my work laptop has a Nvidia GPU and it is running most of the times due to sleep/wake issues - no other problems in the past 4 years. Haven't heard of any o…
Various HP laptops have also had major issues with dGPUs, Nvidia ones to boot.