Two weeks ago my MBP was slowing down and crashing more and more often. I repaired the disk permissions, repaired the disk itself, ran all the maintenance scripts and this seemed to clear everything up.
Last week it started happening again, but this time nothing helped. The processor would just hang for a few seconds, before making a bit of 'processing noise' and then hang again, over and over. Also the HDD started clicking, in a bad way, loud and repetitive tapping. The only way to stop it was to forcibly power it down. This would happen randomly, with seemingly no preference as to which apps were open or what I was doing. Other symptoms also appeared such as Safari starting to quit on me about 2 minutes after launch and files would take an age (2-3 mins for a small .doc) to preview/load. Then a couple of hours ago I got a message in Disk Utility that my HDD was failing! I've already got backups of almost everything on it, so it didn't take me long to get the rest off asap!
Now then, I'm going to give Apple a call, and see what they say, but what can I expect? I haven't abused it at all, in fact it's absolutely pristine. It's 8 months old and apart from a dead pixel, this is the only thing to go wrong with it, in fact I was feeling pretty lucky compared to some guys on here! What with the potential 8600 graphics problem, the dead pixel (very annoying when online in IL-2!!) and now the HDD could I reasonably ask for a newer machine without the graphics time-bomb? I'm guessing they'll replace the HHD or give me a new/refurb of my current mbp as the most likely course. But should I accept a machine that has a built-in problem? And how would I know the stress the graphics card has already been under?
I'm not trying to moan on about my case, or swindle Apple, I just want to know what you guys think.
Cheers
Early 2008 MBP 15" 2.5Ghz 2GB 512MB 8600 250GB
Last week it started happening again, but this time nothing helped. The processor would just hang for a few seconds, before making a bit of 'processing noise' and then hang again, over and over. Also the HDD started clicking, in a bad way, loud and repetitive tapping. The only way to stop it was to forcibly power it down. This would happen randomly, with seemingly no preference as to which apps were open or what I was doing. Other symptoms also appeared such as Safari starting to quit on me about 2 minutes after launch and files would take an age (2-3 mins for a small .doc) to preview/load. Then a couple of hours ago I got a message in Disk Utility that my HDD was failing! I've already got backups of almost everything on it, so it didn't take me long to get the rest off asap!
Now then, I'm going to give Apple a call, and see what they say, but what can I expect? I haven't abused it at all, in fact it's absolutely pristine. It's 8 months old and apart from a dead pixel, this is the only thing to go wrong with it, in fact I was feeling pretty lucky compared to some guys on here! What with the potential 8600 graphics problem, the dead pixel (very annoying when online in IL-2!!) and now the HDD could I reasonably ask for a newer machine without the graphics time-bomb? I'm guessing they'll replace the HHD or give me a new/refurb of my current mbp as the most likely course. But should I accept a machine that has a built-in problem? And how would I know the stress the graphics card has already been under?
I'm not trying to moan on about my case, or swindle Apple, I just want to know what you guys think.
Cheers
Early 2008 MBP 15" 2.5Ghz 2GB 512MB 8600 250GB