This is mostly for my own personal documentation, but hope it will helps others. I know I've been asked what to do by several friends or friends-of-friends whom this exact issue has happened to. (Both 'Early' and 'Late') 2011 Macbook Pro computers have been experiencing massive failures with their discrete AMD graphics card (GPU). Early posts describing this issue date back to February 1 2013 (and possibly earlier), where the screen displays horizontal/vertical distortions,