First Black verticle stripes; now Screen wont work

[Jay J]

My MPB which is about 5 or so months old (I got the MB134LL/A)
And Upgraded to 4gb of memory)..Anyway last week I had tiger stripes on my display(but not my monitor)..This was while I was watching a youtube clip and the display had dimmed)..But all of it would not awake..


Now Today same thing happened again while the display auto dimmed while watching a youtube clip but now the display of the laptop is black (yes the dimmercontrol is at max brightness); and my external monitor yet works fine.
(The screen is just pitch black) like I have set the dimmer at 0% brightness)... ..

I've never dropped it on the ground; or even hit the unit on a surface hard. Heck the battery has had only 25 cycles to date...

 

[Jay J]

Noone? on why its doing it?

 

[sn00pie]

Call Apple. Seems like there is something wrong with your screen or perhaps the connector.

 

[Edwin124]

this same thing happened to me a couple days after i received my MPB (bought refurbished) i had called apple and they had me reset the PRAM and that did nothing, it happened again a week later and and they set me up for a DOA replacement, i would call apple and have them take care of this

 

[Jay J]

I did reset the Pram but it didn't help ...Well as in hte screen went to black the next time..I'll call them next thursday

 

[panzer06]

I did reset the Pram but it didn't help ...Well as in hte screen went to black the next time..I'll call them next thursday

Since it works fine to an external monitor it's most likely a bad LCD screen. Since it's still under warranty Apple should replace it.

Cheers,

 

[habubauza]

Nvidia 8600 is faulty. 100% of the macbook pros that use this chip are faulty. Not some, all. I am on my 5th Macbook Pro and I utilize a specific program that is slightly heavy on video and causes failure within 30 -60 minutes. 100% of the time. (Works normal on regular macbook) I think that you may be experiencing a GPU failure.

 

[drewsof07]

Nvidia 8600 is faulty. 100% of the macbook pros that use this chip are faulty. Not some, all. I am on my 5th Macbook Pro and I utilize a specific program that is slightly heavy on video and causes failure within 30 -60 minutes. 100% of the time. (Works normal on regular macbook) I think that you may be experiencing a GPU failure.

This is a backlighting problem. I experienced the exact same thing. It has nothing to do with the 8600

 

[habubauza]

This is a backlighting problem. I experienced the exact same thing. It has nothing to do with the 8600

Regardless, all Macbook Pro's with Nvidia 8600 chip are faulty. If you have an 8600 Macbook Pro yours is faulty as well.

 

[drewsof07]

Regardless, all Macbook Pro's with Nvidia 8600 chip are faulty. If you have an 8600 Macbook Pro yours is faulty as well.

Mine was replaced in Nov
I'm sorry but you're crazy for letting them give you 4 replacements of the same machine... Especially with your insight that all of them are faulty I would've asked for my money back or replacement with a different model after the second swap...

 

[mikes70mustang]

wut did u use to make it fail in 60 min? crazy

 

[habubauza]

wut did u use to make it fail in 60 min? crazy

If you have a bunch of songs whose titles require scrolling during playback in frontrow, that combined with the 3D flipping effect is more than Nvidia 8600 can handle. If you shuffle enough songs to have continuous playback say for 30 minutes or more your Nvidia chip will fail. On a regular macbook, you can do this all day with no problem.