#Macbook pro gpu failure fix full#

Select UEFI, you will see something like this:Д®nsure you have the top item selected for ArchLinux and press e. You will get an option to either boot from the Macs hard drive, or UEFI. As soon as you hit power, press down the alt key at the same time. Power on the machine, ideally it needs to have the power cable attached to the machine. Stick the USB disk in with ArchLinux on into the MacBook pro. OK, now to get this MacBook pro working again. Do not perform these tasks if you are a novice. The author of will not be held liable for loss of data or broken machines. If your Time Machine is available, use that.

#Macbook pro gpu failure fix full#

WARNING вЂ“ these worked for me, they may not work for you, ensure you take a full back up before performing any of these tasks, the read only disk image will be faster, but the read-write is better, it still took me two days to perform a backup for a 500GB disk. I wonвЂ™t go into the details here, but I did have issues copying the ISO of ArchLinux onto a USB stick using my own Mac.

Well first of all I had a USB stick with a non-GUI version of Linux, I used ArchLinux. CouldnвЂ™t even get it into single user mode. A few months later it wouldnвЂ™t even boot. As detailed in the post over there, a friend had an issue with MacBook pro with the GPU AMD failing.