How to provoke the GPU-fail, discrete g. mbp 2011 sandy bridge?

[mortenjensen]

Hi all,

I have begun to get the GPU-fail on the 2011-sandy bridge architecture.

Now, I want to bring it in for repair and just did a full diagnostics on restart without finding any error. So I would like to provoke the fail at apple care.

I've just tried to load a load of youtube-videos, a VM-machine and more - without provoking it - while it went of just an hour ago with much less GPU-load.

Is there any way to provoke it - or is it rather random?

Morten

 

[eagandale4114]

Hi all,

I have begun to get the GPU-fail on the 2011-sandy bridge architecture.

Now, I want to bring it in for repair and just did a full diagnostics on restart without finding any error. So I would like to provoke the fail at apple care.

I've just tried to load a load of youtube-videos, a VM-machine and more - without provoking it - while it went of just an hour ago with much less GPU-load.

Is there any way to provoke it - or is it rather random?

Morten

They will run a hardware test using their own netboot software. Thats what the deciding factor will be. You really don't need to prove something to them.

 

[joecool99]

http://www.geeks3d.com/gputest/

 

[Altemose]

Hi all,

I have begun to get the GPU-fail on the 2011-sandy bridge architecture.

Now, I want to bring it in for repair and just did a full diagnostics on restart without finding any error. So I would like to provoke the fail at apple care.

I've just tried to load a load of youtube-videos, a VM-machine and more - without provoking it - while it went of just an hour ago with much less GPU-load.

Is there any way to provoke it - or is it rather random?

Morten

Usually pretty random on Macs just starting to fail...

 

[yjchua95]

Hi all,

I have begun to get the GPU-fail on the 2011-sandy bridge architecture.

Now, I want to bring it in for repair and just did a full diagnostics on restart without finding any error. So I would like to provoke the fail at apple care.

I've just tried to load a load of youtube-videos, a VM-machine and more - without provoking it - while it went of just an hour ago with much less GPU-load.

Is there any way to provoke it - or is it rather random?

Morten

Open up Photoshop and try working on an image with lots of layers.

Any app that uses the dGPU will provoke it, normally