2 issues concerning early 2011 mbp:screen no reaction after turn on the lid and airport

the first issue is more serious.Ive read other posts related to this and still cannot figure it out.I dont why the screen wont turn on as i open the lid-the black screen.I turbulently press the keyboard and still no reaction.what i do is to mandatory press the turn-on button and make it shut down,restart it following.and im sure the battery doesnt run out.moreover.my college's wireless is wpa2 authentication.as long as i close the lid and reopen it,the airport requires the password.the PROBLEM is i enter the correct one but i dont have access to network.i have to "disconnect" it and reconnect,thus render me make the network available.you see the main reason is the lid.literally as i close the lid,something goes wrong...
any ideas would be appreciated.thx

SOLUTION!!! from an AppleCare advisor and it worked!!!!
MBP SMC reset
Shut Down Computer
Shift
Control
Option
Power Button
Hold all and count to 10, then release
and power on

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You have 10.6 on that machine, I suggest you stick with it for performance, third party hardware and software reasons as long as possible.
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
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Early 2011 MBP stuck on gray screen, verbose mode shows SMC error too

Hi!
I have and early 2011 MBP, running on OS 10.7.5 is continuously stuck at grey screen upon start-up.
I tried the steps as mentioned in Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup - Apple Support article apart from reinstalling OS X. The laptop started after every step, but then stopped again. I tried SMC update, that also worked for once, and on the second start up I ended up with a blue screen. During a later attempt, it worked again for a while, but ended with a distorted graphics after 15 mins. AHT (short version) doesn't show any hardware errors. Now the laptop doesn't go further than grey screen at all, and after a minute or so there's a heavy fan activity. The verbose mode also shows and SMC error, smc: : smcinithelper error: mmio regmap ==null - fall back to old smc mode (AHT Shows SMC version as 1.69f4)
What do you advise?

Try this:
Reset the SMC and the NVRAM:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
Then try a safe boot:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Any success?
Ciao.

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Hi all, new to the forums here.
I recently purchased a refurbished early 2011 MBP 17' 2.2 Ghz i7 with 8gb and 10.7.5. Out of the box, machine looked great, but I noticed that the power cable was different than the one I had for my early 2011 MBP 15' I have for work. This raised an immediate redflag (buying from a refurb site outside of apple is always a cause for concern IMO) so I abstained from using that charger until I knew a little more. I plugged in the machine and booted it up and everything worked great. The batter was close to 100%, so after charging for approximately 20 min, I unplugged it, and the laptop immediately died. I powered it back on, and the harddrive began to spin for a few seconds, then the same result, total loss of power. Started up again, and I was able to boot into OS X and play around for a bit for a period of time before again, shut down.
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Here a few interesting notes to my situation.
When I was first operating the system (when plugged in, there were no shutdowns, only while on the battery) I pulled up my system report, and noticed that my battery cycle was very low (~5). This seemed odd, because I had opted for a used battery instead of a new one.
Prior to reinstalling Mountain Lion, my volume up key would trigger a few strange events. The screen for briefly get quite bright, then all open applications + the doc and widgets would restart (similar to killing explorer.exe in the windows task manager).
Since performing the fresh install, I have had abslutely no issue with my MBP and I love it, its a beautiful machine. However, as I purchased refurb, I'm hesitant to proceed (I will exceed my return period in ~2 weeks) without knowing my machine is in prime working condition. I have read issues about early 2011 models having issues with batteries and GPUs, but my symptoms were dissimilar to those described by others with those particular issues.
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Do a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
Run an Apple Hardware Test:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
You may need to use OPTION D to start it.
Install iStat pro and open Activity Monitor. Set Activity Monitor to show 'All Processes' and '%CPU' to display values from high to low. Post images of the two such as these:
Ciao.

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Hello,
Ever since 10.9.3 update I have a serious problem with my Early 2011 MBP with AMD Radeon HD 6750M card.
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Since the problem is very specific, I doubt many users will complain and I doubt Apple will ever do anything to fix it, at least until hopefully the new drivers in 10.10 fix the issue hopefully.
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1. Has anyone else experienced this and managed to solve the problem?
2. How can I downgrade to 10.9.2? I don't have time machine backup but i have bootable usb with 10.9.2. Will it help?
All best,
Goran

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Hello, I have an early 2011 MBP (15-inch), system report below:
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When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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Yeah, that probably would've helped, huh?
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Help needed as frustration mounts with Early 2011 MBP.

First time here, so apologies if protocol not followed..lol Ill try not to ramble
I bought used a 2011 MacBook Pro that previous owner had upgraded to Lion, but had reset it back to factory And it arrived with OS Snow Leopard and recovery DVDs. I purchased Mountain Lion and completed install without issue. This week I pushed it and did clean install of Mountain Lion in hopes of creating bootable OS Ml on USB... No dice. It did Internet recovery until it arrived at the big furry lion to verify Apple Id..mine not working. I'm reading the confirmation email on my Ipad..all my info correct...but for Mountain Lion not Lion. It wont allow me any further than that screen. Now after clean swipe.the built in recoveries of l10.7 or 10.8 are long gone...So I abandoned that and did Snow Leopard DVD recovery..But after 20 minutes it's flashing question mark folder...followed by seconds of the apple sign...then back to nonstop ? Folder to circle with / Oh and the DVD player never shutting down just loud starting and stopping the entire time..but never finishing. It now it wont eject of course..(.God I hate that stupid optical bay and its stupid sata 2 birth defect)
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I need suggestions as what to try when I power up again.
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When you said you did a clean wipe of the drive did you re-partition the drive as one partition or use the erase section to erase the macintosh hd. If all you did was erase the macintosh hd partition then you left the mountain lion recovery hd intact on the drive and that might be what is stopping the snow leopard install.
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You really don't need to post multiple times, you will get attention eventually.
Find the reply here:
MacBook Pro 13 (MBP 8,1 random restarts)

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Looking to upgrade my internal HD on my early 2011 MBP. Before placing the order, would like to get some professional advice.
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SAMSUNG Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 2TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive
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Oh, sorry, I didn't note that I am planning on using logic 8 to attempt this. I don't have access to a machine with logic and pro tools installed to try it myself, else I would.

Which kind of SSD hard discs do support with earlier 2011 MBP ?

Which kind of SSD hard discs do support with earlier 2011 MBP ?
I'm using 15 inch earlier 2011 MBP. I would like to replace hard disc to a new SSD hard disc to improve performance. But I don't know which kind of SSD works fine for it. Does anyone work fine? Could you give me some successful experience? Thanks a lot.
BTW, Can I use SATA3 SSD? And any problems here?
Thanks a lot!

is it a hard questions?

2 issues concerning early 2011 mbp:screen no reaction after turn on the lid and airport

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