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Dave Felix

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Apr 9, 2011
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Pardon for the duplicate thread, but can someone advise what they have been doing in order to still use the notebook with the defective GPU?

Of course I missed the recall but has anyone found a work around without dropping $700 on the fix? The panic report is below.

*** Panic Report ***

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f9aa919e9): "GPU Panic: mux-regs 3 3 7f 0 0 0 severity 3 WS-ready 1 switch-state 0 IG FBs 0 EG FBs 3:3 power-state 0 3D idle HDA busy : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff91347ce000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P2/4\n"@/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.16.21/src/AppleMuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:162
 
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