Of course, then there's no telling how any Linux distro would behave as a result of this mod, hardware or otherwise.
#2010 macbook pro gpu recall mod#
Some of these, such as brightness control, can be remedied with other software utilities, but it's also dependent on which flavor of OSX you ultimately have installed, as users have reported various different bugs as a result of the resistor mod base off of running High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, etc. I contemplated doing this, but the bugs that are introduced my removing the AMD GPU from the equation, even with software trickery, results in some potential pitfalls such as: lack of brightness control external display port rendered unusable, etc. Jeff Geerling also has a detailed blog post about this process, but his includes the removal of a resistor. There's an NVData value you can modify to disable the discreet chip, but it still continues to draw power, and with sometimes software updates will reset that value to its default, which means you have to boot back into the recovery environment to disable the dGPU once more. It's a sad truth that this machine is bedridden for the rest of its days However, what this did allow me to confirm is that there's something about my 2010 MBP in particular (again, leaning toward the GPU drivers, here) that seems to cause issues with certain applications. I'm not going to be carrying a cooling pad everywhere I go either to maintain portability. Short of sitting it on top of some ice, I'm not sure what other solutions there are for controlling thermals that don't render the machine immovable or cumbersome. This is the second time I've reflowed the chip to get it working again, but due to how inherently hot this machine runs, and given how poor the cooling actually is, it's only a matter of time before it manifests itself again. The best way is to reprogram the MUX on the board, which requires soldering in a few wires, and using a MUX programmer, and a $25 piece of software unless you want to write the program yourself (it's not easy). There's a resistor you can remove, and then reset the PRAM, and do a few other things in the Recovery OS, but that's temporary, and the AMD GPU still gets power, so it drains the battery life and contributes to heat.
But it's even better if you have it running. They had one of these "doomed" AMD GPUs and I recall reading about others bypassing it to just use the Intel. I recall someone posting on this forum asking to disable the AMD GPU so they could run with Intel. Bravo! May it last you longer than you ever thought it possibly would last.
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