Ok this is going to be a long story but I will tell you in case you don't want to read all of this, my MBP is fixed. It was in fact a faulty fan.
Before I begin, If you have a unibody with the 8 hr battery it WILL in fact void your warranty if it is not installed by an approved Apple servicer. The best way to know who is approved is ask Apple in your area.
As for the ones with the hard drive in the battery compartment where you dont have to take screws out your okay.
So yesterday I set an appointment to go to apple at before I made my last post but when I got there I wasn't on the list which was a little frustrating but it was my fault. I made an appointment at another store. So they scheduled me in at 8pm (the only spot available yesterday). I got there and the guy that helped me, I wasn't too sure about. We talked and I explained everything. He said okay you can leave it and it will be done in 6-7 days. I asked if they had anything I could use in the meantime because I have to have a laptop. He said no. I started getting very frustrated. I had to leave my laptop for 6-7 days for something that would literally take 3 min to fix, I cant believe it!!!! Is exactly what I told him. I told him I came into their store and spent well over $4000 on a computer that apparantly had a faulty fan all along. I told him I was better off just letting it run hot and I'd get a new system eventually (Knowing it would really bother me and I could never do this to my laptop. It would be like torturing my child. I just could never do it.) Oh and I found out I haven't had my MBP even 90 days yet. It sure feels like 6 months as much as I've used it. Glad I switched! Anyways, I asked him if there was anything I could do, he told me about this thing that you pay $100 dollars a year and it puts you above all the other people (to get serviced) that don't have it. I told him sign me up. He left for a minute and came back. He told me it was only busy because of the college kids and that it is normally busy this time of the year. He said that he was going to put it in and if all it was is a fan, I would have it back in 24-48 hrs but if there was anything else I wouldn't have my computer for 6-7 days. I said okay and left it there. Not even 5 minutes after I got home I got a call saying it was done. I raced down there to get it before it closed. Got it home and forgot to shut it down completely before I swapped drives back. It was in hibernation or sleep mode, whatever you want to call it. Well I corrupted the info when I woke it up. I saw the desktop picture from the old drive and I powered it off really quick hoping I didn't mess anything up. I restarted it and nothing. I saw a file with a question mark that's it. I was starting to feel sick. I reformatted the hard drive and did a backup from my TM. Gotta love it! Everything was back to normal after almost 10 hrs of restoration. I'm so glad I've got it back. It's like I was missing my mojo last night. All is good. No issues and I got it back in a timely manner thanks to those guys at Apple.
If it would have been anything that wouldn't take more than a couple minutes to fix then I wouldn't mind the wait. But I didn't want to wait 6-7 days for a fan. Just doesn't seem logical to me. Maybe I'm selfish, I don't know.
Thanks guys for all your help.
