Mac Book Pro need help

[johnnerpb]

Hi i have a problem with this macbook pro, the screen is fuzzy and unreadable and it will not boot, just shows a blank white screen. Tried running the disc fsck -fy and it came back with no errors. At a loss as to what this is a gpu failure? Having a little problem trying to download mac osx Leopard 10.5.6 and not sure if that is what is running on this macbook pro as it's a friends laptop. Can anybody help?

 

[Audit13]

Which Macbook pro do you have?

Was the Macbook dropped or exposed to moisture?

Does this happen when connected to an external monitor?

Tried an smc and pram reset?

 

[johnnerpb]

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/...-15-early-2011-unibody-thunderbolt-specs.html
Looks to be the one from up above, a second gen 17. I have not tried an external monitor, but i will try that now. From what i was told the machine was shut down after leaving it on battery. I myself work on windows machines and usually that would signal a corrupt driver or OS. Thanks for the reply and the suggestions, i will post the results.

 

[Audit13]

The early 2011 and late 2011 15"/17" Macbooks are known to suffer from GPU failures and this may have happened to this machine.

I am speaking from experience because I have a late 2011 15" Macbook pro and had to have the GPU replaced in order to have a functional machine.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/...-addressed-by-apple-repair-programme-3497935/

 

[harryb2448]

You do not legally download Leopard OS X.5. Go to auction sites and buy a full retail install DVD.

If it is a 2011 model Leopard will never install Leopard on it. It came with Snow Leopard OS X.6 and as a rule of thumb you cannot go to an earlier system. Spen $20 and get a copy of Snow Leopard OS X.6 from Apple Online. Do not put pirated software on a friend's computer.

 

[Audit13]

You could also try to reload the os using internet recovery.

 

[harryb2448]

If running Leopard???? no Internet Recovery period.

 

[Audit13]

The op didn't say which os was last installed on the Macbook. I have an early 2011 Macbook and it supports internet recovery as my machine has an up to date efi firmware version: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/02/25/how-to-start-up-your-mac-in-internet-recovery-mode/

 

[johnnerpb]

You do not legally download Leopard OS X.5. Go to auction sites and buy a full retail install DVD.

If it is a 2011 model Leopard will never install Leopard on it. It came with Snow Leopard OS X.6 and as a rule of thumb you cannot go to an earlier system. Spen $20 and get a copy of Snow Leopard OS X.6 from Apple Online. Do not put pirated software on a friend's computer.

Thanks did not get that far, finally found a site that had all the info listed as to what gen it was and the osx version.

 

[johnnerpb]

The op didn't say which os was last in installed on the Macbook. I have an early 2011 Macbook and it supports internet recovery as my machine has an up to date efi firmware version: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/02/25/how-to-start-up-your-mac-in-internet-recovery-mode/

Cheers for that going to leave it over night, have it running now, well i think it is hard to tell with the screen being distorted. Got the wifi key in and did hit the check icon. If this does not work i have a link to send it to dublin for gpu repair as i am almost certain thats what this is. Once again thanks for all the help.

 

[pigoo3]

Maybe I missed it...but what were the results when an external monitor was tried?

- Nick