From: tjp314@pacbell.net

Date: July 10, 2019 8:57:47 AM MDT

To: <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Bypassing Radeon chip on 2011 Macbook Pro?

Reply-To: tjp314@pacbell.net

Has anybody tried this:  https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/fixing-2011-macbook-pro-booting-grey-screen-amd-radeon-video-glitch

I loved my 2011 Macbook because it ran so many things I most often use as well as my touchbar mac, plus it has a firewire 800 port that ran all my Pt Grey cameras and Astro IIDC well.  But it has the "dreaded logic board failure".

It might actually run fine for a while, because it's been sitting in a drawer for about a year or two now.  But it had gotten to the point where it would crash repeatedly on startup until it warmed up, would then run for a while (sometimes for days on end), then would start crashing while warm.

If this fix works, though, I might be able to use it again?  I have an OWC Doc for the touchbar mac that has a firewire 800 port, but it doesn't seem to provide enough power to run the cameras.  And now Mojave won't run Astro IIDC anyway.

-Tim.