![]() This was the last of the 17-inchers, perhaps forever, and I plan to keep using it until it is pried out of my cold dead hands. IMHO, Apple has never made a better laptop for the the specific use case scenario where some limited portability is required and screen real estate is more important than size/weight. The repair I describe below worked perfectly for my 17 incher and also applies to the 15 inch models from the same era. Ordinarily I would not attempt to repair any board with solder failure but new logic boards are simply not available for the late 2011 models and used ones are absurdly expensive (and may be close to failing anyway). What commonly happens is that the solder joints in or around the GPU daughter-card fail over time, resulting in a gray, blank or garbled screen. From experience, I knew that it was suffering from the dreaded AMD GPU logic board failure. ![]() The screen wigged out while it was in use, then it would only boot halfway before stopping at a gray screen. ![]() So the dreaded day came when my beloved “late 2011” 17 inch MacBook Pro died. ![]()
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