Is my 8600M GT dying?

[fatlittlenick]

I've had my early '08 15" Macbook Pro for nearly 2 years now, and so far the graphics card has been good to me, seeing as I've read the articles it's problems.

Anyways, recently, when i open photoshop, I get these strange purple and black glitchy blocks around the sides on the canvas area (see attached photo below)

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They started out being smaller black glitches, but it seems to be getting more spread out, but if i use the grab tool and move the canvas around, It erases them.

Should I be concerned? Should I go over to the apple store and ask for a replacement (I know the graphics card has a 3 year warranty) or seeing as tho it's not a huge annoyance, should i wait a while?
Thanks in advance!

-N

 

[Hrududu]

Yup, thats the card going out. I'd take it in as soon as you get a chance. A lot of them will eventually quit displaying anything at all.

 

[wordoflife]

Yep. Those series are known to have problems and Apple should replace it for free.

 

[creative78]

I agree with the others, get it looked at ASAP before it totally fails. You might want to print a copy of http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377 and take it with you to the Apple store.

 

[winninganthem]

If you can reproduce the issue every time even after restarts, then I'd take it in. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry. I have the same MBP and I had graphics issues before with older versions of Leopard but software updates seemed to fix them.

 

[aerove]

yep tough luck..! pick ur laptop up and run as fast as u can to a apple store.. no i am serious.. dont hold off on it till something else goes wrong with it...

 

[fatlittlenick]

Tough luck indeed.
Thanks guys for all the feedback, I'm going in on Monday to see what they can do, and it's funny because I only found out about this buggy 8600 news in January this year, so i was furious! Also, when i bought this brand new, a month later the unibody MBPs came out, which was such BS (then again, I did next to no research on buying, so i guess it's my fault in that respect)

cheers

 

[AlphaDogg]

That is in fact the graphics card "dying" or "going out." You should take it in to the Apple store for a genius bar appt. as soon as possible!