Resurrecting the Donated 2011 MacBook Pro (Bypassing AMD GPU)
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Welcome back to another video in the 2011 MacBook Pro Saga! Today I'll be attempting to bypass the on-board AMD GPU and get the laptop to boot using integrated graphics. Let's see how that works out...
A huge thank you to everyone who sent me messages with info on how to fix this issue!
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Ive been subbed to this dude for quite awhile. The reason he does not have a huge sub count is probably because the normal run of the mill moron out there is thinking that windows 10 and the latest hardware that comes out is the be all end all of computing. Even though its one of the worst os that is currently out. Windows 7 is far superior to windows 10 just in being stable.
I've been subed to him since like 2013 and am still following him since.
Incredible! My 2011 Mac Book Pro's third (or maybe 4th?) logic board just failed, and I was so close to giving up entirely on it, but the nvram command solution has worked.
Not sure what happened in your case. However, I followed most of your vid before switching to dosdude instructions after your future self dropped in, lol. My goal was simple, disable the dGPU and install Catalina. After about an hour of multitasking, I was able to install the patched OS and have been enjoying my retired 2011 MBP which feels like a true MBP once again. Thank you immensely. I've waited over a year to finally do this. BTW looking at your procedure it's one step different from what I did. As I intended to install the Catalina OS, I made an OS bootloader for it. After using S mode initially for the prefs you described, that was the only time I needed it. I disabled csrutil from the Recovery via the USB bootloader as I did get the enabled SIP error. Since I was not sure why it wasn't disabled I rebooted into the USB bootloader and ran the terminal command from that. Once I rebooted everything was green and I ran the program without further issue.
although your videos helped me get my macbook pro 2011 back to life, i nowadays listen to your videos when i go to sleep. your voice is SO calming. thank you!
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just to add to this video in case anyone stops by . we all know the intel hd gpu is kinda puny but there is a way to increase its performance . if you have a 2.2 or 2.4 you can install 1866 mhm ddr3l and the chipset will happily run them at full speed you can also use 1600 the ogpu will use the system ram as gpu memory up to 512 mb the faster ram will help a lot in many tasks
When you delete or modify kexts, you have to rebuild the kernel/kext cache after doing so. To do that, you have to run this command in Terminal:
sudo kextcache -i /Volumes/YourPartitionName
Glad you got it working! :)
Thanks for the info!
For a second there I thought you had mispelled text
I have never heard you get mad in a video until today and frankly I’m impressed
I contacted Rossmann Group in New York about repairing this at the board level and their response was it isn’t possible to just replace the GPU. They ahd tried it but machines were dying again within days. They pointed me to dosdude1’s method of flashing the firmware to permanently disable the GPU and enable Intel HD graphics. COVID has stepped on that project if you want to mail in the computer for them to fix. Doing it myself isn’t possible at this time. So, for now we are going to replace the 2011 Macbook with a different model that is newer and get by for now while we transition AWAY from Apple altogether because enough is enough. Apple is no longer the same company it was ten years ago. I’m done.
You could upgrade the macos in it since Catalina is on older macos, but OCLP Big Sur could do fine in it..👍🏻👍🏻
The Dosdude1's Guide worked for me, the first time I tried after the software did its thing and it asked me to restart it happened again and had to do all over again but it seems that the second time I did it it's now working. Hopefully it won't boot up using that damage GPU but if it does it's not that hard to boot using this method. Thanks so much!
When you issued the CSRUTIL DISABLE command in single user mode (black/white text screen) it clearly stated "THIS TOOL NEEDS TO BE EXECUTED FROM THE RECOVERY OS". instead of swaping drives like yo udid you could have restarted in recovery mode (Control+R) then selected Tools-Terminal Mode and then typed CSRUTIL DISABLE... then restart in single user mode again to issue your move command.
Huh, I'm not sure why the tool is still detecting that SIP is enabled, after disabling it in Recovery Mode... Try running "csrutil status" in Terminal and see what the output says. If that reports it's disabled, there may be an issue with the tool that I need to fix.
Hey Collin! I have a follow-up video in the works where I was able to get your tool to work. As some have pointed out, I think it might have something to do with the multiple OS partitions that I had installed on that HDD. After I did a clean install of macOS on a new drive it worked perfectly.
hey mjdi just boUGHT A 2011 MBP WITH FAILED GPU ON PURPOSE!!...... n i am doing this mod right now! n so far it worked! the laptop was 40$ and my 2013 mbp died so i did this rather than fixing it... update: it took two hours but i did get the bypass to work! i had to stick the ssd in another mac just like you did in the video but in the end everything worked out! FYI if you use dosdude1s catalina patcher to upgrade from 10.13 high sierra to 10.15 catalina the brightness control will work again without having to do that hardware mod!
I think it’s not disabling the sip due to the multiple partitions? Not too sure.
9:56 maybe there are some ATI* files left in Extensions folder?
I'd try doing a completely fresh install with a single partition.
Thank you so much! After almost a year I see the desktop again!
Do you need to run sudo when you do the NVRAM command? or no?
This did it for me! I have been working on a mid 2010 Mac for days! It is now installing! THANK YOU!
Since the drive has multiple partitions, it may be causing a possible conflict with disabling the SIP?
That was my thought. It might be disabling it on a different system partition/folder than it's booting from.
I'd like to know if this helped or not ... I mean just in case I ever buy a Mac again (which I promised to my Girlfriend I don't since I got me like 15 classic Mac Laptops the last two years)@@SenileOtaku
Afterwards, you probably noticed the lack of brightness adjustment capability.
Use Shady app for that purpose.
Hey @Michael MJD - you weren’t booting into Recovery mode which is why CSRUTIL didn’t work. You need to hold down the Command-R keys and hold them during boot. It’ll launch the recovery image and give you access to Terminal.
@@rhuephus single user mode isn’t required to disable CSRUTIL. You just need access to the Terminal program provided by the recovery partition.
Mike, you have multiple partitions hence you have 2 OSx's hence you have to full reinstall the system
Going to try this out in a future video!
I love the tech stuff that you're doing on this channel! Keep up the good work :)
Thanks, will do!
Thanks for your video. The method worked perfectly on my MacBook Pro late 2011. The gDPU disabled also worked fine. Thanks again.
Great video man. I followed the steps on the website and 100% works. I had no issues like you had. Thanks 🙂
Awesome!
I can't believe this worked! I've tried everything and this was easy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much you save me and my poor Laptop from spending a lot of money! I was trying The comands trick and it was working for a while but after a short period of time i was on Grey screen again... But The software solution you have gave
us Works like a charm!!! Thank you thank you again!!!
The best video in the site! Worked perfectly fine. Late 2011 MacBook Pro. Thank you!!
it seems to be that it in a possible way to run recovery from the el capitan partition, because you would have applied the system integrity check in the situation that the partition for it that way.
Hi, I tried this and whilst i can get the :NVRAM ********* etc entered and restart the machine, It boots halfway into OS and then fails and shuts off again..? Any pointers on if i'm doing something wrong...? (late 2011 pro 15")
I have the same problem bro, my MB Pro 17 early 2011 is one year now doing this. I'm not sure if we have to disable the GPU or not. did you fixed your? thanks and if yes please share the solution
Funny to see those particular machines together. Right now in my office I have my mid-2010 MBP sitting right next to an Inspiron 6000 (looks exactly like your 6400). I was planning to use the Inspiron as a ReactOS test platform. The MBP works perfectly (as far as I can tell), so I'll be bumping up the memory and switching to an SSD eventually. Nice and clean inside and out (the power brick was dirtier than the machine).
The MBP at first didn't seem like it was taking a charge (which wouldn't have been a problem for my usage), but once I wiped the partition table and (eventually) got it to pull an installation off the internet, charging works fine. I've seen something about some reset that sometimes needs to be done when the charging acts up, it probably had something to do with the system files (which, obviously, were gone by then). Did the disk wipe by booting a Linux Mint DVD and running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=100".
Count=100 only wipes the first 100 sectors (51.2k). A better way is to use hdparm --security-erase if the drive supports it (most do) and it's not locked (sometimes the bios locks it and the drive needs a power cycle after booting). This is also much safer for SSDs as it only wipes the encryption key instead of increasing the write count on the flash cells.
I’d recommend dosdude1’s custom firmware for the gMux chip when it releases for a permanent fix. He’ll be selling a flasher that end users can use to flash the CFW for the IC chip which won’t require any modifications to use.
Fingers crossed. However flasher will not be cheap and it makes sense only for repair services. I also tried to read chips firmware but so far i had no luck.
Here are a few things I noticed:
- You removed the kext files - but did NOT rebuild the kext cache.
- In your "mv" command, you typed "/DisabledExtensions" - but, you didn't add a slash :) Should've been something like $ mv AMD*.kext /DisabledExtensions/
- Are you sure that you _really_ disabled System Integrity? :) Perform as root, via recovery. In Recovery+Single User mode, you should be root, but type: "echo $USER" to see if you are, or are not root.
- Also - for safety, make sure that you boot into the proper recovery drive, so that it will also disable system integrity on the proper partition. If you are using two different components, OS and recovery, it might fail. Use "diskutil list" to check which drives are currently mounted. Also, if you enabled system integrity with this HDD on a different mac, disable it first, then re-enable it, in order to get a fresh startover.
But other than that, nice video!
Hmmm- right before it hits that great screen spam the side cart button or the brightness buttons and it should boot up slowly.
There is a better way of doing this, as after software updates or nvram reset etc then this method doesn't work. gmux IC reprogramming. so that the gmux ic no longer switches gnu's. dosdude1 has documentation on how this is possible, I've already ordered the Lattice FPGA programmer (HW-USBN-2A). You only have to solder a couple of wires on where there used to be a programming port on prototype MacBooks, flash the updated program, and done. Also if you want to fix sleep and wake, he also sells an IC you can solder in, called DyingLight
One question: I'd heard from other sources that when the AMD GPU is disabled (by whatever method) that you can no longer use an external monitor. Can you confirm/deny this, when using the method you've used?
yes, that's right!
Yo @MichaelMJD, If you still have this machine, I figured out a method of getting it to boot without moving kexts or anything. There's am NVRAM variable called GfxMode that sets what GPU to use on boot. If you set it to 4, it powers down the dedicated graphics and exclusively uses the integrated graphics. This even sticks between updates, and even entire OS reinstalls.
Hi… could you point me to where can I get more details on that solution?
Hi Mike, I got the disabler to run! You need to do the single user code, terminal the shorter bit, then reboot by typing reboot into the terminal after, and it'll reboot very quickly, take a while to boot up, maybe do a few cycles, and when I got on, the intergraty protection was disabled and it ran!
Hmm. My late 2011 MBP just died. Boots into safe, but not recovery or internet recovery. I just saw a CL post selling the same model and dude said he disabled the AMD chip, I googled it and here I am. I used my Mac with an Apple Cinema Display, but if this works, cool. Thanks for posting this vid!
Picked up a Late 2011 17 inch for $25 with GPU issues. Resurrected it, it was amazing ^^
Hello Michael, Thanks for your video, I have a problem, my keyboard is in spanish, have the letter "Ñ". In the moment of type the code I can´t write this sign ":" (two points) and I can´t type "P" letter. Any Idea that can help me? thanks so much.
Somebody on YT successfully baked the entire logic board from his Mid 2011 MBP 15. It was a similar bake process as used on the AMD 6970M GPU in Mid 2011 iMac 17 inchers. The youtuber set temp at 370 and baked for 7 minutes. 6970M bake is at 390F for 10 minutes.
To follow up on this, I just picked up a MBP 17 with no chime and black screen. Intel GPU was not initializing. Took the logic board out and applied heat gun to the top of chip. It's working again. How long it works is anyone's guess but it is not a brick anymore.
@@encinobalboa It's only temporary. Been down that road.
@@encinobalboa i gonna try on mine . the fan spin and stops on off on off on off. Did yours spin
@@Buzzhumma Look for a boot sequence chart. That will give clue where to look. Fan sounds like a low level failure which is not so easy as GPU bake. Maybe some heat gun on CPU or a MB controller might bring it back. Worth a last gasp as 2011 is not worth paying for tech fix.
I have the same issue (as most with MBP 2009-2012). The only thing I do and seems to be working for me is I boot in single user mode (CMD+S) and I enter the command: sudo nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00 Everything runs smoothly but if you restart the machine you need to do all the steps again. So now I’m doing it al least day after day
this happen to me, I am glad my mbp is booting, but when I restart the machine i need to do all the steps again, is there new solution?
after after running the command: csrutil disable in terminal while in recovery mode, I rebooted the system using reboot command in terminal. but it took around 20minutes for the loading bar to fill then froze. then after a little while i thought that maybe i need to check csrutil just to make sure so i turn it off and on again then hold command+R to went back to recovery mode then run the command: csrutil status and its showing that its disabled. this time i tried reboot it using the tab on the top left then clicked reboot. but to no avail, its still got stuck while rebooting. pls help, whats the next step i should try?
i have a 2012 macbook that will crash once switching to the nvidia gpu. will this method work for me?
Thanks a lot, u made my Macbook back to life in a simple, short and easy steps
Glad to hear that!
The tools worked. It saves my computer. Many many thankssssss
Wow, muchas gracias. Tenía mas de dos años con mi MacBook Pro guardada en la bodega y por fin volvió a la vida. Hice le procedimiento en un HD externo y funcionó perfecto, ahora voy a comprar un SSD y se lo instalaré para volver a usarla al %100.
Un SSD revive cualquier computadora de cualquier época y las vuelve como nuevas otra vez. Son como magia.
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LOL YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME ENOUGH YOU TROLL
Thanks for your wonderful video. I followed your advice but when I get to recovery mode there is no terminal tab - now what?
In recovery at the top look for utilities. Terminal is located there
This worked great for me. I followed the directions from dosdude1’s guide and ran the program. The only question I have is that prior to finding this guide I was using a fan control program that made my fans run on 100% to keep the video card cool so the MacBook wouldn’t act up, and I’m wondering if I’ll still need that at all? I’d imagine not, but out of curiosity I feel like it would be appropriate to ask.
My friend, there's a resistor that powers the dedicated GPU, the Resistor is known as R9811, Run the patch provided by REALMACMODS and then boot the machine in safe boot then shut down the machine, REMOVE THE Resistor.... Cross your figers that once you press the power button once you do that. the display turns on... if it does.... Boot from OSX Utilities and enable a Firmware password... so EFI VARS wont be re- written.... this is the only real BYPASS method for longevity and LESS POWER CONSUMPTION BECAUSE THE ATI RADEON WILL BE OFF.... if you need help. Message me.
I bought a logic board on ebay without that resistor and its fully working, the only thing that doesn't work is brightness control, i installed a program Brightness Slider and it works on High Sierra
Thanks for the video! Would you also know how to re-enable the GPU? (for example when a new motherboard is placed)
its working perfectly fine with my MBP. it might be because you are using multiple macOS at once. Try using it only with one macOS in a harddrive. Good luck.
Thousand Thank you follow instruction working just fine 1st 2nd 3rd reboot no probbs Thanks
Worked perfect for me!!! My MacBook is alive again!!!
Glad to hear it!
I see that dosdude1 has another option that requires opening the case and soldering wires etc, is that a better option? He sells a key for $20. I just did the command prompt version and it worked fine. Whats the difference??
😭 Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since last month, I had to use the backup laptop.
@MichaelMJD How can you delete kext files? When I try, macOS says that those files are necessary for mac and don't let erase them
Good informative vid, handy to see problem solving and workarounds being practiced. Don't get me wrong, i like it easy, but if all goes well in the end...Gold.
PS: is this at all reversable?, just like to know.
Regards.
I was trying to make an upgrade and since then my Mac only make the Mac sound and show logo then get stuck there could this be the solution ?
14:49
"nextstep, get it? cuz were on os x? haha ok ill stop"
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Hi Michael! Thanks for this. I manage to get my 2011 macbook to turn on after giving up for over a year!!
I followed the Dosdude1's Guide's and worked perfectly. I tried to reboot the machine and it went through 4 rounds or rebooting before booting correctly again.
Do you have any idea on why is that happening?
Thank you so much for your help
Marco
3:47 could the typo have been the issue? Extentions v. Extensions
but after that , we can not connect to external display. is there any tutorial for that? after disable discrete GPU.
Hey man ,i have just tried your steps and i went to terminal from recovery mode and disable as you did .Get 2 green checks :)
Sometimes my late 2011 MacBook Pro boots into safemode. I just had the logic board and battery replaced. Help.
I can't believe Michael only has 28k subscribers. He should have more! 😀
Thank you!
hi! i tried dosdude1's instructions but I ended up with a mbp that shuts down when the progress bar reaches halfway. :(
I hope you can help me here. :)
Good luck I'm currently in the same situation
Hi, really enjoyed you video and the work around worked fit me. But the only issue is all the graphics are absolutely shocking on the intel gpu. Any way of turning the AMD back on?
Any idea how to accomplish this on a mac mini mid 2011 with AMD GPU?
My filevault turn on so I can’t go to recovery mode with command s, what should I do?
i just got 2011 MacBook Pro earlier today my first ever mac laptop
Big thanks! You saved my macbook!
It partially works on imac mid 2011. For me: my screen is back up but not running properly. I had to copy all AMD KEXT files to another folder then bring back to extension folder once monitor was running because cmmd+r froze at the boot screen. It seems to be requesting an update but I cannot find an update for the graphic card anywhere even at the AMD site. I cannot boot with command+r into recovery because it will repeatedly freeze before apple load bar loads. This is odd this imac has been running flawless for 8 years then out of the blue it went psycho. I cannot follow dosdudes instructions because again some of the keyboard functions do not work properly at startup.
Thank you, it worked! BTW: on this macbook pro i had to mount r/w after single user entered or the command sudo is "not found" :)
How do you fix a computer that boots up normally but after sometime it will glitches and have lines scattered through the whole screen then shuts down after that?
why the hell didn't Apple make this information available instead of just throwing up their hands? It could have saved so many people with working 2011 MBPs that have a burned-out junk AMD GPU! But I guess that wouldn't have sucked out thousands of dollars from users' wallets for new computers. Thanks for this video, gonna try it (although a bit skeptical about downloading something from the web & running it)
Also: subbed just because of this!
I asked apple support for an approved apple solution to turn off the bad gpu on the apple hardware and they refused saying it was “vintage” equipment
@@joshuaa3075 I pretty much got the same from the "geniuses"
Trey Quattro it was a wakeup call for my wife. She did not trust Apple after that.
Because they're in it for the $$$
LoFi beats in the background
If you check Dosdudes website he has an email that you can get in touch with him at and see if there’s something that he can maybe help with. That’s just a thought though.
Looks like the answer - at least worth a shot - to my many hours, days, even weeks of frustration. Unfortunately, so far after booting into/with "single user mode", no typing is permitted. That is, keyboard doesn't function. Any suggestions? Anybody? Please and thank you.
Run sbin /mount -uw Just move the amdx3000.kext to another folder.
Reflow won't work on 2011 MBPs
needs a new GPU which you can't get anymore; there are old boards out there but it's a crapshoot
It worked for me. I was seeing pink lines the browsers weren't working right. Now I am watching a 4K movie.
And it was real hard to start.
It is a wayback option for this ? It didn't worked but it deleted all the drivers
Hi can you give detail instructions before removed AMD driver
No brightness and sleep, any settings to bring it back?
also wanna know
You probably didn't mount / as rw, read instructions when you first enter single user mode
Hey show us that clamshell
I've actually done a few videos on it a couple of years ago : )
Hi Michel is there any posibility that after bypass the amd the wifi card is no longer regonizable because I have this problem with my 2011 17" macbook pro and I also try with another wifi card from a 2011 15" macbook pro and both of them only work the bluetooth but the wifi card is no longer regonized by the OS ,and for sure both of the wifi cards are working , also try to reset smc and pram/nram and nothing I try all the combinations possible and nothing , if you have any ideas it would be very helpfull thanks
Try deleting and re-downloading the tool
Hi, I used this method to disable the amd gpu. Now however my computer cpu will not go into sleep mode. When it attempts to do this it shuts down and I have to restart the computer. Can you give an insight on this? Is it a function of using this method? Thanks
Is this a late 2011 mac or early 2011 mac that you have?
Hi! Thanks for the help! I have this problem. But I cant Start the macbook in mode cmd-s. Can't write anything in that mode. How can I fix this problem? Thank uu!!
how can i reverse the process to have the problem again
brighntess controler keys and standby still working after graphics disable?
When my Mac goes to sleeping mode it does not awake anymore, after completing successfully all this process. Do you have any idea of what’s going on?
Someone is selling me an A1278 2011 MacBook Pro with this problem. The person who is selling it to me indicates that it gives no video signal at all, meaning the screen remains black the whole time. Is it an indication of a worse damage or this could also fix it?
Wow this would be useful for my 2009 laptop which has AMD Radeon GPU... How do I know it my core2duo processor has a built-in graphics chip in it too?
is there a space between the nvram fa4ce?? i type everything correct and it does nothing
4:27 Do you guys have a solution how to fix that cause everytime i fix macbooks the apple logo is stuck even with the lid close
Took 20 mins worked perfect