5/1/2023 0 Comments Graphic card reflow![]() I use my laptop for photo editing so that wasn’t a viable option. The built-in Intel GPU will take over but video performance for demanding tasks would suffer greatly. The least intrusive way to make a MBP with GPU failure operational again is to disable the AMD GPU via software. Non-intrusive repair optionĪnyway, back to the repair. But my eyes ain’t what they used to be and cramming my workspace into 15 inches just makes everything too darned small. Indeed, the 17-incher’s 1920 X 1200 pixel native resolution seems puny compared with the current 2880 X 1800 px Retina display. “You can fit even more stuff on the new 15 inch screen!” they say. Several people suggested that I should just put the old relic out to pasture and update to a new 15″ MacBook Pro. Over the years I’ve managed to keep it ticking by upgrading to 16 GB RAM–Apple only officially supports 8 GB, but this works just fine thank you very much–and a 1 TB SSD. Okay, the last part is a bit of an exaggeration but my MBP does everything I need it to do and is still plenty fast. This was the last of the 17-inchers, perhaps forever, and I plan to keep using it until it is pried out of my cold dead hands. IMHO, Apple has never made a better laptop for the the specific use case scenario where some limited portability is required and screen real estate is more important than size/weight. The repair I describe below worked perfectly for my 17 incher and also applies to the 15 inch models from the same era. Ordinarily I would not attempt to repair any board with solder failure but new logic boards are simply not available for the late 2011 models and used ones are absurdly expensive (and may be close to failing anyway). What commonly happens is that the solder joints in or around the GPU daughter-card fail over time, resulting in a gray, blank or garbled screen. ![]() From experience, I knew that it was suffering from the dreaded AMD GPU logic board failure. The screen wigged out while it was in use, then it would only boot halfway before stopping at a gray screen. So the dreaded day came when my beloved “late 2011” 17 inch MacBook Pro died.
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