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How much will this cost to repair?

ghostchild

ghostchild

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So for no apparent reason my screen all of a sudden turned to this...
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It should be the ribbon cable that connects to the screen since the screenshots turn out fine and if I let the mbp cool all the way down and opening it again it's fine for a while....

Can anyone tell me what I should do?? New MBP or get it fixed for who knows how much...:(:(

Thanks.
 
Free assuming its the 8600 failure and apple extended the warrenty of their computers who have this card for 2 years.
 
dukebound85 said:
why you think its the ribbon cable?

id venture its the gpu crapping out

do you have the 8600 version? if so, its under warranty still
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But if it was the gpu then wouldn't my external monitor and screenshot be messed up too?

And can genius bar fix it or do i have to send it back to apple??
 
ghostchild said:
But if it was the gpu then wouldn't my external monitor and screenshot be messed up too?

And can genius bar fix it or do i have to send it back to apple??
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Bring it to the Genius Bar. They'll be able to tell you if it was a GPU or display issue. If it's GPU and you have a NVIDIA card, it's free. From there, they will send it back to Apple.
 
MysticMage said:
Bring it to the Genius Bar. They'll be able to tell you if it was a GPU or display issue. If it's GPU and you have a NVIDIA card, it's free. From there, they will send it back to Apple.
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man this really blows.... this is my main workhorse too... so no ideas for an immediate fix?
 
dukebound85 said:
immediate? not really unless you can diagnose/fix yourself

you could just work from your external and not worry about it if you dont want to part with the machine?
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problem is that im a photographer and the external is no calibrated, but i guess that's my only solution, but the thought of the shipping process is killing me.... and the thought that they might need to reformat....
 
ghostchild said:
problem is that im a photographer and the external is no calibrated, but i guess that's my only solution, but the thought of the shipping process is killing me.... and the thought that they might need to reformat....
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id take it to the store if you can

back up your stuff before you take it

just to clarify, you do have the 8600 right?
 
Ok so Carbon Copy Cloner basically clones every single thing on the hd?
 
Ok, then I guess that's what has to be done... Scheduled a monday appointment and backing up now..... Totally sucks and sudden but what can you really do about.....:(
 
Yeah, the best thing is to have a backup computer. I'm a photographer as well and I have two laptops incase an issue like this arrises where I have to send one to Apple. That way while I am never without a computer since it is unlikely that both will need repairing/replacing at the same time. Apple is pretty timely about the repairs though, the last time I sent a laptop in they finished the repair the day they got it. You'll want to emphasize to the Genius that this is your work computer and you need it to be a timely repair, you may want to ask for overnight shipping both ways.
 
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