- #2011 MACBOOK PRO THUNDERBOLT PORT DRIVERS#
- #2011 MACBOOK PRO THUNDERBOLT PORT UPDATE#
- #2011 MACBOOK PRO THUNDERBOLT PORT MAC#
Note: You will probably have to do this all again when doing any system updates and from my experience even security updates. Hope this helps anybody else with the same problem. When you first connect the power adapter to your MacBook Pro, an indicator. Important! This is up to you but I would suggest doing a Time Machine backup just to be safe.
#2011 MACBOOK PRO THUNDERBOLT PORT MAC#
Now your mac should be booting normally without any issues, if not then there really is more than a graphics card issue. On the screen that loads choose the following in the menu Utilities -> Terminal. Now reboot into Recovery mode using CMD + R. Now we are more or less repeating the same as Step 1.
#2011 MACBOOK PRO THUNDERBOLT PORT UPDATE#
Now update the timestamps of the driver cache without the AMD drivers.
#2011 MACBOOK PRO THUNDERBOLT PORT DRIVERS#
Now once done lets delete the kext drivers cache. sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/AMD*.* /amd-backup-kexts/ Then move all of the drivers with a wildcard naming. The latest Intel processors bring speed improvements over previous years as. MacBook Pro 2011 Refresh Specs: The new MacBook Pro models come with Intel Sandy Bridge processors, AMD Graphics and Lightpeak connectors which Apple is calling Thunderbolt. So first make a backup directory to copy them into. The new 2011 MacBook Pro models are available for purchase now and are shipping within 24 hours. Now we are going to move all the AMD graphics card drivers, so best to make a copy of them rather than deleting them all. Try using /sbin/mount if you get mount command not found Once done mount the MacBook Pro hard drive by adding.
Now in the terminal add the following, which will fix any disk permissions before we do anything. On reboot go back into single user mode by holding down the CMD + S keys. When csrutil is disabled we can now move kexts and delete system folders. In the New MacBook Pro leaked box picture it said that the Thunderbolt port was also the Mini DisplayPort. On the screen that loads choose a language then on the screen which appears next choose the following options in the menu Utilities -> Terminal - see below. The terminal will now be on the screen.įirst input. So first reboot your Macbook Pro into single user mode by holding down the CMD + S keys. But I had two problems - I had no permissions when trying to disable the csrutil and when trying the same with Recovery Mode - CMD + R I had the blue lines on black screen appearing, but the below sorted it for me. Now there are other solutions that say at first boot into Recovery Single User Mode - CMD + R + S. The solution is to change your energy settings and make sure the screen saver animation options are always active. The Thunderbolt Display requires OS X 10.6.8 or later, and a Thunderbolt-equipped Mac, such as the 2011 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, or iMac. NOTE: One known issue to this solution (and maybe others) is that when the screen goes to sleep/black it no longer wakes up, therefore needing a forced reboot. Now there are several solutions on the web but this is the only one that worked for me running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6+) and what was worst for me is that the MacBook Pro was stuck in looping reboot.
Again, the drive mounted on the desktop automatically.If you are suffering from the infamous blue lines on the black screen on startup or random reboots then you maybe suffering from an AMD graphics card hardware issue with your later 2011 Macbook Pro laptop. Next, we connected the Promise SmartStor DS4600 RAID to the FireWire 800 port on the back of the display. The drive mounted automatically on the MacBook Air’s desktop. We then connected a Promise Pegasus R6 array to the Thunderbolt port on the back of the display.
The ethernet connection on the Thunderbolt Display appears in the Network system preference as Display Ethernet. The connection showed right up in our Network system preferences. We connected to our LAN using the display’s ethernet connector. To test the new features, we connected the MagSafe and Thunderbolt connectors from the Thunderbolt Display to a new 13-inch MacBook Air. The 2011 MacBook Air uses the Eagle Peak Thunderbolt controller, which offers two 10Gbps bidirectional Thunderbolt channels and supports one DisplayPort connection. Before the Thunderbolt Display, connecting a MacBook Air to a wired LAN required an optional USB-to-ethernet connector, and external drives were limited to pokey USB 2.0 transfer speeds. Never before has the MacBook Air been able to use gigabit ethernet or FireWire 800 external devices. The Thunderbolt Display, which was originally announced in July at the same time as the new MacBook Air, should be most attractive to owners of 2011 MacBook Airs, bringing some seriously fast I/O connections to Apple’s smallest laptop.