Booting a Radeongate-affected MBP

[Nein01]

Anyway, I did find a way to boot it up without the Radeon GPU:
- Boot in single user mode (cmd+s on startup)
- Enable read/write on the boot volume by typing "/sbin/mount -w"
- Create a directory to store the extensions files - "mkdir /DisabledExtensions"
- Navigate to the extensions directory - "cd /System/Library/Extensions"
- Move all ATI/AMD extensions to the directory previously created - "mv ATI* /DisabledExtensions" - "mv AMD* /DisabledExtensions"
- Finally, type reboot

When exactly do I hold down command + S? I've tried before the tone, after the tone, and before powering on, but after the grey screen with the apple logo everything still goes black due to my failed dGPU.

Help?

 

[niteflyr]

Safe mode:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564?viewlocale=en_US

 

[paolo-]

I have the same dilemma, Late 2011 bought in July 2012.
So far I have only had a couple of the "Radeongate" type re-boots and it
could be down to RAM, which failed under memtest ( need to go get that exchanged )
I don't do any graphic intensive work or gaming and have an SSD fitted, so it runs
pretty cool almost all the time.

I can only remember fans spinning up on perhaps 4/5 occasions since I've owned it.

I stress it quite hard with music apps / work but that doesn't seem to bother it too much.

Marty.

I'd still be very wary of it. On the 2011 Macbook Pro facebook page, there has been a few reports from some audio professionals of failure (one while using Mainstage while performing a show, ouch). I think what happens is that since cooling is so poor on the computer and that the CPU and GPU share the heatsink that heat from the CPU can heat up the GPU. Then say you start looking at an HD video on your external screen and pow it dies (actually that's how mine died). I did stress it quite a bit by gaming before it died but I didn't get warning signs. All of a sudden the screen went blue, the fans started roaring and it wouldn't boot...

I'd try selling it before the warranty is up.