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Huge Problem with Macbook Pro: Freezing and Flickering Black Screen

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dragonfire9

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 28, 2009
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I am on a vacation right now and recently encountered a problem with my macbook pro. This happens randomly at anytime. At first the problem only occurred during a middle of a Team Fortress 2 game but it spread systemwide.

Here's a video:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2061606/My Song 6.mov

Can anyone help?
Thanks
 
DoFoT9

DoFoT9

macrumors P6
Jun 11, 2007
17,586
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London, United Kingdom
hey man unfortunately that looks to be problems with the GPU and high temperatures. its often referred to as artifacting - this seems like a severe case though! i would advise taking it STRAIGHT to apple, show them the vid, get them to run tests and see how it goes.
 
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MikeinJapan

macrumors regular
Apr 23, 2010
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Tokyo
What specs is your macbook? Apple are replacing my MBP late 2008 because of the 9400m kept frying itself and flickering. I am getting a free i7 out of it (I have applecare).
 
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dragonfire9

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 28, 2009
7
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Thanks for the reply. I have a 2009 2.66GHz 15 inch MacBook Pro with the nVidia Geforce 9600 GT and the 9400. I'm currently on the 9600 one and I might try the 9400 one. But sometimes the Mac freezes on the apple start
Up screen (the loading wheel stops spinning).

I tried the hardware diagonosis test but it came up with no problem.

I'll Go to an apple store but I am on a vacation
 
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