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#1 Jun 07 2008 at 9:26 PM Rating: Decent

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Anyone familiar with macs ever see something like this happen:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/dgqfan/Picture1-3.png

I have no idea what is causing it, but my screen will go apesh*t. I have to wait a good 5 minutes before it will just decide to go away. This happens both on the laptop monitor and the external monitor.

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Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro 15"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP11.0055.B08
SMC Version: 1.2f10
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

If you have seen this issue, did it get fixed? How?

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#2 Jun 08 2008 at 8:27 AM Rating: Good

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Not a mac "guy", but I am a IT "guy".

My opinion is that either your graphics card is dieing (could be getting to hot or something).

Or

If it only does it on certain programs and not all the time then you have a corrupted file somewhere.

To help solve the problem give some more info.

How often does it do it?
What programs are up when it does it?
How long has it been running?

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#3 Jun 08 2008 at 10:21 AM Rating: Decent

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My opinion is that either your graphics card is dieing (could be getting to hot

This.

If it's still under warranty, call Apple. They're pretty good about fixing/sending people brand new laptops.

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#4 Jun 10 2008 at 12:24 PM Rating: Decent

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Smasharoo wrote:

My opinion is that either your graphics card is dieing (could be getting to hot

This.

If it's still under warranty, call Apple. They're pretty good about fixing/sending people brand new laptops.

That is what I was afraid of.

I believe it is still under Applecare, so I will try to take it in this weekend.

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How often does it do it?
What programs are up when it does it?
How long has it been running?

Varies. Some times it will only happen once and I will be fine for weeks, other times it will happen on and off for hours
Varies. I have had it happen right on start-up and when multiple apps are open
The system, some times it will be up for weeks and other times it will only be on for minutes before it happens.

I have had other issues with the video card, but the "genius" ran all of the Apple diagnostics and told me there was no issue. This was just when I was getting terrible video lag, and the same "genius" watched the issue, but since the tests came back clean he said there was nothing that could be done.

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#5 Jun 10 2008 at 4:40 PM Rating: Decent

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In case anyone was wondering, I am sitting in the Apple store right now, waiting for my hard drive to back up.

The second they saw the screen shot, I was told my MoBo needed to be replaced (since it is a laptop, the video and all in integrated w/ the motherboard).

This is the second time with this machine my motherboard has needed replacing. Hopefully they fixed whatever issue this is when they rolled the Core 2 duo MPB (2 days after I bought my MPB. Granted I wasn't able to exchange it for the new model...)

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#6 Jun 11 2008 at 11:10 AM Rating: Decent

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Well at least it isnt costing you anything. It could be worse your warranty could be up and then you would be left with a glitchy computer.

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