[Advice] Macbook Pro Flickering Display Problem

[hubie]

Hi there, I'm new to the forum so apologies if this issue has been discussed already elsewhere.

I was just wondering if anyone can help me with a problem...

I've had my 15" Macbook Pro for about a month now (bought brand new from the apple store online). It had been working fine, until all of a sudden last night I discovered this problem.

Essentially what happens is these little blue lines and dots seem to appear all over the display, running vertically. As well as this, the screen is flickering a lot. I'm not doing anything intensive with the macbook, simply surfing the web or doing nothing at all, but it does this immediately upon start up.

Fortunately I haven't experienced the black bar problems that some people have mentioned on the apple support forums that apparently accompany these symptoms, not yet anyway.

Could anyone please advise me on what I should do to solve this problem?

Any suggestions, help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I am a complete Macbook n00b so plain english would be greatly appreciated! Cheers

 

[ViciousShadow21]

take it to an apple store and get your screen replaced or get the whole computer replaced.

 

[hubie]

simple as that huh? OK, cheers

 

[Minimoose 360]

It's not your screen, most likely it is a defective GPU. Most people have seen green lines, but I think blue would be the same. Apple will fix it for you.

 

[hubie]

Ok cool, thanks for your advice

 

[ViciousShadow21]

apple will take care of you. no worries

 

[chris.robison]

apple will take care of you. no worries

+1 For sure

I just took my 2.53 in for flickering about an hour ago. They replaced, without even seeing the flickering. They also gave me a 2.66.