MBP Late 2011 screen glitch

[Biglittlebear]

Hi

Hoping someone can shed some light on this.

My MBP late 2011 is having startup issues.

Sometimes it chimes sometimes not.

When it does chime it gets to a white lined screen with apple logo , start up bar gets about half way, then it either freezes or goes blank, attached image will help explain.



I have tried reseting SMC ( Has worked a few times but now failing )

Also tried a PRAM reset ( Again did start a few times but now fails )

Recently if I keep trying it eventually comes to life, but last night it just wouldn't start and threw up a different bright blue screen with vertical lines.

Hoping this is a hardware issue I can possibly sort out.

Here's model info

Got everything crossed : )

 

[maflynn]

GPU is failing, which is a common occurrence, there's not much you can do with it, and given the age, I'd look to replacing it.

 

[Biglittlebear]

Thanks for your reply

How sad is that, it still flies along.

 

[maflynn]

Thanks for your reply

How sad is that, it still flies along.

Its a design flaw that basically meant that the GPU was going to fail at some point. Apple had a repair program but that ended last december.

With that said, the repair program only replaced the bad logic board with a repaired logic board so the inherent problem remained and it would be a matter of time when that repaired laptop failed again. I say this, so you don't feel bad that you missed the deadline for getting it fixed.

 

[Biglittlebear]

Its a design flaw that basically meant that the GPU was going to fail at some point. Apple had a repair program but that ended last december.

With that said, the repair program only replaced the bad logic board with a repaired logic board so the inherent problem remained and it would be a matter of time when that repaired laptop failed again. I say this, so you don't feel bad that you missed the deadline for getting it fixed.

Thanks Maflynn