{"id":1514,"date":"2014-09-19T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2015-02-20T02:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T02:53:00","slug":"macbook-20110-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/macbook-20110-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Macbook 2011 Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/issue.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1522 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/issue.png?resize=215%2C205\" alt=\"issue\" width=\"215\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Update:<\/strong> Apple finally owned up to the problem and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/macbookpro-videoissues\/\">offering free repairs<\/a> starting Feb 20, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As everyone was starting to queue up for the sale of iPhone 6 today, I was trying to get my macbook working again at the Genius bar. I had been facing problems with a garbled display since the last couple of days which then turned into a critical problem rendering my computer unable to start up. It would show the apple logo and the loading animation but then get stuck with a gray screen.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how everyone&#8217;s experience at the Apple store has been but I have always had a terrible time explaining any of my problems to the &#8220;geniuses&#8221; out there. It takes a lot of patience to listen to the condescending way they would talk to you <em>(<\/em>&#8220;<em>You seem to be having a problem with the logic board &#8211; you know, the brain of the computer&#8221;)<\/em>. I don&#8217;t know if they are trained to talk like that to anyone not wearing a blue t-shirt or is it their everyday experiences that make them act like that.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that early 2011 version of the macbooks with ATI graphics cards came with a manufacturing defect that Apple is refusing to own up to. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=macbook+pro+graphics+card+issue\">several threads<\/a> on popular sites and on Apple&#8217;s discussion forums that talk about it. In fact, there has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/patently-apple\/2014\/05\/a-class-action-lawsuit-is-launched-against-apple-over-faulty-macbook-logic-boards.html\">class action lawsuit has also been filed against Apple<\/a> against this issue. You can also support the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/timothy-d-cook-replace-or-fix-all-2011-macbook-pro-with-graphics-failure?recruiter=70115427&amp;utm_campaign=mailto_link&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=share_petition\">change.org petition<\/a> and sign your name along with 15,000 supporters there:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tim_cook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tim_cook<\/a> Why haven&#39;t you taken any action on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mbp2011?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mbp2011<\/a> yet? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whatwouldstevejobsdo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#whatwouldstevejobsdo<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EUj3w5dCWs\">http:\/\/t.co\/EUj3w5dCWs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gaurav Trivedi (@trivedigaurav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trivedigaurav\/status\/514021689550577664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>In case you have been facing the same issue and are looking to buy some more time to get a final backup and move your stuff etc&#8230; Moving the graphics driver to a temporary directory helped me with that. <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/120507\/boot-hangs-on-grey-screen-even-when-booting-from-usb-drive-with-fresh-os-x-inst\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s the StackExchange answer that you could make use of. And if you own a Macbook Pro from 2011 and haven&#8217;t faced this problem yet, please do bookmark the link for you would eventually need it anytime you do any graphics intensive work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Zach Clawson has compiled a list of actions that you could possibly take if you are facing a similar problem &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.cam.cornell.edu\/~zc227\/extras\/early2011mbp_graphics.html\">https:\/\/people.cam.cornell.edu\/~zc227\/extras\/early2011mbp_graphics.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. I had written this post as a rant after a rather disappointing visit to the Apple Store. I have edited some portions since then for providing a more objective view.<\/p>\n<p>3. Add bug report screenshot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bugreport.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1529 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bugreport.png?resize=169%2C182\" alt=\"Bug report I filed\" width=\"169\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-23-at-9.16.53-PM.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1539\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-09-23-at-9.16.53-PM.png?resize=509%2C154\" alt=\"The update making it a dupe\" width=\"509\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have filed a bug report for this issue as well to make sure that it is in their system (which they later updated to be a duplicate of another issue &#8211; see picture).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Apple finally owned up to the problem and is offering free repairs starting Feb 20, 2015. As everyone was starting to queue up for the sale of iPhone 6 today, I was trying to get my macbook working again at the Genius bar. I had been facing problems with a garbled display since the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/macbook-20110-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Macbook 2011 Problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46eol-oq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}