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El Capitan Public Beta broke down my Macbook Pro

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macpt said:
Oh boy, you guys keep coming, what is hard to understand in my posts or in "Mindinversion" accurate description that shamed the incredule replies above ?

What is an el capitan forum ?! Since you asked about reddit, and actual MBP users might be undeterred due to the noise in this thread (such as misguided BasicGreatGuy above) here are the other Radeons burned by El Capitan beta that I found in minutes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/392v2g/beta_testing_os_x_1011_el_capitan/csyl055
https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp_...bp_early_2011_hangs_midboot_after_el_capitan/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3db8fw/el_capitan_public_beta_fried_my_macbook_pro_2011/

You're welcome.

Now I will leave you to it, deface the thread however you see fit.
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You link two threads with not much response in them and most responses are the same as here. (that it is NOT El Capitan and that it IS hardware for those specific models.)

The third link you provided is your own thread on reddit. So I really wouldn't say "The Radeons fried by El Capitan public beta installation are piling on reddit.com right now" when that is so far from the truth and your links prove that.
 
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I seriously can't believe my response to being called not smart was deleted from this thread. I try to help, get insulted, report the original poster for his abuse and my post gets removed when there wasn't anything inflammatory? Great.
 
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nalbagli

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Even though this may seem very strange, there may be something behind it. I used to own a Mid 2012 Retina MacBook Pro 15 inch, which worked great until I installed Yosemite Beta on it, since that day my computer started having several graphic glitches and random freezes almost everyday, this was actually never fixed. People started complaining in forums and after some time Apple had to do a recall of those models and change their logic boards for free.

So even though I don't understand a lot of this, and of course it's absurd to think Software could damage hardware, apparently some software could trigger this type of issues
 
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nalbagli said:
Even though this may seem very strange, there may be something behind it. I used to own a Mid 2012 Retina MacBook Pro 15 inch, which worked great until I installed Yosemite Beta on it, since that day my computer started having several graphic glitches and random freezes almost everyday, this was actually never fixed. People started complaining in forums and after some time Apple had to do a recall of those models and change their logic boards for free.

So even though I don't understand a lot of this, and of course it's absurd to think Software could damage hardware, apparently some software could trigger this type of issues
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I have to concur... Reminded me back I had my mid-2010 MBP that ran fine on Snow Leopard, but after I created a small partition to run Mavericks beta, kernel panics all over... Boot back to SL, it ran fine again... Weird thing is, triggering Mission Control with a certain app active can cause kernel panics, while the same app on SL's Expose does not... What really happened underneath the codes, I don't know, only Apple knows. This went on for close to a year before I finally take it up with Apple, mess with them to change my logic board for free despite over a year out of AppleCare, and they relented.
 
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El capitan might possibly push the GPU harder with Metal and new optimisations, but the end result is still that an already defective component failed, perhaps slightly faster.
 
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There was a test we used to run to determine if some 2007-2008 MacBook Pros had a failed Nvidia chipset. Often, the test would pass but would immediately push the already teetering chips into failure. This is the same thing that is happening here. Again, it isn't software breaking hardware. It's hardware that is ready to go being triggered by normal use.
 
mikecwest

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macpt said:
Facts speak for themselves, why a bunch of you are trying to sell a spin on why my only professional laptop broke down doesn't really help repair it. I wonder what changed with Yosemite that started breaking down so many people's Radeons.

I will try to send it in for repairs at an apple authorized repair shop, and hopefully they will cover the costs, otherwise it's only good for TextEdit. I highly doubt they will recognize the video cards issue in my country in Europe, here it doesn't work like US class action suits.
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If this was your only laptop to use for work, it it is generally not recommended to install beta/pre-release software on it.

If you have an early macbook pro 2011, like the others stated, your laptop should be fixed for free under the program. Mine was fixed after Yosemite "revealed" the issue to me. I remember seeing the same reports when Mavericks, and Yosemite came out, however it was not "acknowledged" by Apple until after Yosemite was released. I did the same "fix" by removing the Kexts.

Another option, that worked for me, was to boot up from an external drive, then rebooting into my main hard drive. I am not sure why that worked, but it did.

Take your laptop to an Apple Store, and get it happily repaired by the great people that work for Apple Computer.
 
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I was having some pretty serious crashing last weekend with my 2011 iMac, started out as a graphical glitch then it would just lock up and reboot, did this a few times and then I couldn't even get into the OS. Went through disk utility, single user, verbose mode, and reset the SMU/PMU. Then I disconnected all of my external HDD's, plugged in a USB mouse and keyboard and it finally started up. I quickly disabled bluetooth and wifi and made sure no apps were running. Everything was fine. Started slowly plugging in HDD's and starting up apps one at a time. Finally I got to bluetooth and I noticed that when I turned it on and connected my mouse, the screen shifts slightly, it's minimal but it's there. So I think bluetooth is what was causing this. I know it's a long shot but maybe if anyone is having crashing issues with El Cap, they can try disabling bluetooth (at least until the next update), it's worked for me.
 
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