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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
GPU and hard drive issues
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<blockquote data-quote="brkit2012" data-source="post: 1637576" data-attributes="member: 333028"><p>Hi guys, </p><p></p><p>I've been helping out my friend with his 2011 15" macbook pro. It has the classic signs of GPU failure- lines through the screen, weird background colors, and blue screen when watching videos. I offered to let him use a functioning Macbook pro that I had sitting around, and switched out the hard drives. When I powered the working mac with his hard drive in it, it stopped at the apple sign and just hung. </p><p></p><p>I booted up with cmd + r and verified and repaired the disk. At the restart, I got the same hanging issue. So, I put the hard drive back into his computer with the GPU issues and it booted up fine into safe mode, as this is the only mode he can boot into with the GPU problems going on. </p><p></p><p>I was wondering if maybe I should erase the disk and reload all his files and operating system from a time machine backup or reload the operating system on his hard drive then copy the files manually? Any suggestions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brkit2012, post: 1637576, member: 333028"] Hi guys, I've been helping out my friend with his 2011 15" macbook pro. It has the classic signs of GPU failure- lines through the screen, weird background colors, and blue screen when watching videos. I offered to let him use a functioning Macbook pro that I had sitting around, and switched out the hard drives. When I powered the working mac with his hard drive in it, it stopped at the apple sign and just hung. I booted up with cmd + r and verified and repaired the disk. At the restart, I got the same hanging issue. So, I put the hard drive back into his computer with the GPU issues and it booted up fine into safe mode, as this is the only mode he can boot into with the GPU problems going on. I was wondering if maybe I should erase the disk and reload all his files and operating system from a time machine backup or reload the operating system on his hard drive then copy the files manually? Any suggestions? [/QUOTE]
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