2011 Macbook Pro and overheating graphics

[Tobes]

Hi there,

So in November I had a problem with my Macbook Pro. It was getting really hot when watching youtube videos and the like and it started freezing. Then one day when I restarted it it showed lines on the boot screen, showed the Apple logo and then just a white screen.

I took it to the Apple store where they overlooked my optibay and it took 2 weeks to have a new Logic board ordered and replaced.

Not long after I got it back the same signs showed again, just before Christmas it wouldn't boot so I took it to a Apple reseller and they managed to get it booting but said they couldn't say how long it would last for and to back up my stuff.

Yesterday it froze and won't boot. I study Music and Sound Technology and my deadline is tomorrow. Needless to say I am working non stop to somehow get some compositions together for it. But that's half my fault for not keeping recent bounces. While I have backups with no production machine there's nothing I can do.

So I will have to go to the Apple store next week and sort this out. However I have seen this thread on Apples site which is a 195 page thread of this problem. I'm not happy that they are probably going to replace the Logic board again and there's a very very high possibility this could happen again and my 3 year warranty is soon going to run out.

Does anyone have any experience in this issue or know what I can ask when I go in to secure some sort of guaranty that if it does happen outside my warranty that I won't be stung with the high price of a new logic board?

Thanks,
Tobes

 

[fez]

I had the same model as you as far as I can remember and I ended up taking out the optibay as it simply couldn't handle the heat with 2 hard drives in there. It had all sorts of issues with overheating which were never sorted till the optibay was removed and the optical drive reinstated.

 

[manic111]

Are they both HDDs? Maybe switch the optibay one for an SSD? Less heat etc.

 

[Tobes]

Its one ssd and one HDD. The thing is the optibay has been in there for 2 and a half years and no problems. Now all of a sudden 2 dead logic boards in 2 months

 

[Energize]

It's the CPU not GPU that decodes video. But the usage should be pretty negligible when just watching a video and should not output any significant heat. I'd look for something else going on.

 

[Tobes]

Well I did a fresh install just before the first failure as it was getting hot and playing up. I mean it's mainly youtube videos and the like that just make it burn. Programs like Logic/Ableton it doesn't seem to have a problem with. So it does seem more on the video side.

I don't know I'm thinking Marvericks has changed something. Also I should point out it didn't have the Optibay in the second time. I never got round to putting it back in.