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julian-poidevin / MBPMid2010_GPUFix

MBPMid2010_GPUFix is an utility program that allows to fix MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) intermittent black screen or loss of video. The algorithm is based on a solution provided by user fabioroberto on MacRumors forums.
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Panic restarts started again after 1,2 weeks of flawless operation #131

Closed joomlabeat closed 4 years ago

joomlabeat commented 4 years ago

Hi Julian,

thank you for the utility -- although I need to work on 2 screens, for the time being I disconnected my second one and managed to work flawlessly for 1-2 weeks.

However, this morning the panik restarts started again. It's the second in the day today, so I came here to report this and to ask you for any ideas/recommendations.

The macbook runs on 10.11.6 and no software updates have been applied in the last weeks. The only thing that happened is that I occasionally connected a second screen a few days ago.

Does connecting the second screen at any time, disables the patch? I have the last panik report available if you would like to have a look. Let me know if you have any ideas... Thanks

joomlabeat commented 4 years ago

I re-applied the patch and will see what happens...

julian-poidevin commented 4 years ago

@joomlabeat Did it work ?

joomlabeat commented 4 years ago

I don't know what could have happened and the first patch stopped working. Auto updates were/are disabled and none have been applied on the system for some months. I also found out that the SIP was enabled again, which I had not re-enabled manually after the first installation.

Anyway, after re-installing the patch, the mac works again flawlessly. Is it possible that after connecting a second screen the patch could be disabled? @julian-poidevin

julian-poidevin commented 4 years ago

As said in the README : the patch does not work if connecting a second screen.

joomlabeat commented 4 years ago

Hey @julian-poidevin - I know it's not working with a second screen.

However the issue did not occur while having a second screen connected. I just had to connect a second screen twice for about 1 hour each time during these ~2 weeks after the first patch installation. Everything was good during these 2 times - I didn't had any issues and there were some days passed after the last second screen connection that I worked with no issues on the mac book pro. Then the panik restarts started again suddenly 2 days ago- *and not while on with second screen (highlight this).

So the question is: Is the patch not working during connecting a second screen and after disconnecting it it will be back and working? Or in the case of connecting a second screen even just for 1 minute, the patch will be disabled/removed and needs re-installing?

*My impression was that the patch will be just not working while operating with 2 screens and when the 2nd screen is disconnected it will be working again.

Can you clarify on this?

julian-poidevin commented 4 years ago

I'm sorry, I have absolutely no idea 😕

joomlabeat commented 4 years ago

Ok no worries Julian! Thanks anyway!

paraita commented 4 years ago

Or in the case of connecting a second screen even just for 1 minute, the patch will be disabled/removed and needs re-installing?

*My impression was that the patch will be just not working while operating with 2 screens and when the 2nd screen is disconnected it will be working again.

Maybe something from the system overwrites what the patch does, so ultimately disables the fix. If that's the case, we can probably write a service that watches the patched files so when the system modifies those files again, the service can notify the user and/or re-install the patch.

joomlabeat commented 4 years ago

Hey there, I am here to report that after the last re-installation of the patch it worked till yesterday, when panic restarts started happening again. No updates - no second screen. I am going to re-install it once again.