


Now force shutdown by holding power and restart into single user mode (Cmd+s)* Now everything is reset (Dont worry you wont lose any files) than press Cmd+Option+p+r wait for two chimes. press leftshift+control_(NOT COMMAND)_option+power Start by resetting all hardware settings i.e your speakers, brightness, audio, everything. Hello there! I had the exact same problem and my solution would be to restart the whole procedure here's what i do. I'm going to attempt to reverse this process because my screen was dimmed to ~50% before I started. If you do this you'll lose the ability to adjust your display's brightness.

So far so good, nothing has crashed yet.īUT! A warning to everyone. Did everything with no errors but envidia Graphics card still enable and crashing my computer, any thoughts? So any (!) OS supported by the Mac will work. The Tiresias solves this problem! Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra (and later) is supported by the Tiresias! To have brightness control in High Sierra or later requires soldering two extra wires from the Tiresias to the motherboard. Depending on what internal contacts in the GPU are ruptured this might confuse or even crash the Mac.Īny solution for disabling the GPU (also GMUX flashing or GMUX hard-wireing) will provoke High Sierra (and later) to not offer backlight control, and worse, to have the backlight off after sleep so it looks like the Mac does not wake from sleep. Removing R8911 also prevents the Mac from getting confused by the dead GPU because even with the GPU turned off it will still try to talk to the dead GPU. This saves energy, generating less heat and conserving battery life. Other than that R8911 should be removed to turn off power to the dead GPU.

An experienced technician can do this in minutes. You will need to mount a very small board onto the motherboard. This makes this the ideal solution to bring a 820-2914 or 820-2915 with dead GPU back to life. If the user clears the NVRAM (PRAM) there is no problem as the Tiresias will write the record again, and the Mac will work again. The Tiresias writes the 'gpu-power-prefs' nvram-variable to the ROM so that the Mac does not use the (dead) external (discrete) AMD GPU anymore. It is the external GPU that fails in 'a small percentage of MacBook Pro systems' (Apple-speak for: 'very many'). The internal (Intel) GPU that is part of the PCH, and an external (discrete) AMD GPU. The Tiresias is a small board that can be soldered onto the motherboard of the MacBook Pro 15-inch or 17-inch 2011 (Early or Late) models.
