It flickered, then froze, then died

[cmusat]

Hi, this is my first post here. Your help is much appreciated.
I have a 2011 macbook pro and last week i started having some problems with the screen flickering and then freezing. After a restart it was OK so I didn't bother looking into it.

This morning though I can't restart anymore. Even if I hold down the power key and then press option, i can't boot in either Windows or mac os. Same thing for the disk utility - it just freezes with a grey screen.
Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Now i'm getting bold - any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Claudiu

 

[inselstudent]

Could be the logic board. I once had similar problems with my 2010 MBA, which then had the logic board replaced by Apple. Are there those error beeps when booting up?


Here comes a very out of the box suggestion; take it in to the next Apple store.

 

[cmusat]

No error beeps

Regarding taking it in - do you have any idea if they charge for diagnosis (i'm based in Switzerland now).
The 2 year warranty.. expired 2 1/2 months ago..

Thanks again,
Claudiu

 

[Cristian .b]

is this a 15 inch model? those have gpu issues. but this sounds like the hard drive is dead. that's an easy replacement.

 

[cmusat]

15 inch.

hdd issue? Why would that cause the screen to flicker? :-s

 

[yjchua95]

Hi, this is my first post here. Your help is much appreciated.
I have a 2011 macbook pro and last week i started having some problems with the screen flickering and then freezing. After a restart it was OK so I didn't bother looking into it.

This morning though I can't restart anymore. Even if I hold down the power key and then press option, i can't boot in either Windows or mac os. Same thing for the disk utility - it just freezes with a grey screen.
Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Now i'm getting bold - any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Claudiu

If it's a 15" model, it means Radeongate has hit your system.

Radeongate: AMD Radeon GPU failures on 15" and 17" 2011 (early and late) MBPs.

Solution: Get the logic board replaced.

 

[92P92]

Join the club. Mine died 2 weeks ago.
I had similar problems and indeed the GPU was dead.
To diagnose that they asked me 79 euro and now they want for a repair 670,30 euro. In my opinion that's a ridiculous amount to fix a 1800 euro MBP that just turned 3 years old.

I hope Apple does a recall and fixes all the broken 2011 MBP because it's a widespread problem (like they did for the Imac)