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So I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro, with the 2.4GHz i7 processor and the Radeon GPU. The story is that the laptop was dropped and shortly after it crashed and when attempting to boot the device it showed a pink static screen and would not fully boot into the OS. An external monitor showed nothing. I’ve tried all of the fun little hotkeys to reset the various components to no avail. Eventually I decided that somewhere on the motherboard there are probably some bad solder points. I’m guessing it’s probably on the GPU. I baked the board once before and that seemed to fix the issue, but only for a week or so. I have since recently rebaked the board and it seems to be happy again. I’m running it through various synthetic loads to see if the failure will occur again. Does anyone else have much experience with this issue? I’ve not seen much about it online. I’ll report back if the issue occurs again after this second bake. Thanks in advance!
I’m not sure how you haven’t found anything online, the 2011 MacBook Pros notoriously have GPU issues. The only real fix is to replace the chip. I’ll bet the issues will return even after rebaking the board, unfortunately. Software wise, you could also disable the AMD GPU and only use Intel integrated graphics, which may be the best no-cost fix for your machine. Check out this StackExchange post for a lot more info on the problem, including how to disable the AMD GPU, which I’d recommend trying if the issue returns: https://apple.stackexchange.com/question… At least it may prolong the inevitable.
