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Is my Macbook Pro dying?

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JHNguyen

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Apr 14, 2006
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If it is.. I don't blame it. It's been through lots of crap.. trust me. I was looking to get a new one anyways. Just curious if what I'm experiencing is common or/and an easy fix.

Here's a list of things that has happened to it:

1. Black lines show up on the LCD once in awhile. Long across the whole screen.. though, they disappear within a minute.

2. It freezes completely and I need to reset. This happens randomly but it's always when I maximize something from the dock. (I realized it could be because I set "animate opening applications" so I set it off. I'll see if that fixes it.

Does this sound like a new HD would help? or maybe something else? The freezing thing is really the only thing that bothers me. But it may very well be because I turned on the 'animate' option. I don't remember when I turned it on though and when the freezing started occuring. If it's a problem with the HD, I'd just replace that and hold off on buying a new laptop.

That being said don't let this scare you off if you're trying to decide to get a MBP. Mine was ran over with a car and has been working flawlessly before it, and even almost a year after it was run over. These problems just came up suddenly. It is also the 1st generation Macbook Pro.
 
JHNguyen said:
If it is.. I don't blame it. It's been through lots of crap.. trust me. I was looking to get a new one anyways. Just curious if what I'm experiencing is common or/and an easy fix.

Here's a list of things that has happened to it:

1. Black lines show up on the LCD once in awhile. Long across the whole screen.. though, they disappear within a minute.

2. It freezes completely and I need to reset. This happens randomly but it's always when I maximize something from the dock. (I realized it could be because I set "animate opening applications" so I set it off. I'll see if that fixes it.

Does this sound like a new HD would help? or maybe something else? The freezing thing is really the only thing that bothers me. But it may very well be because I turned on the 'animate' option. I don't remember when I turned it on though and when the freezing started occuring. If it's a problem with the HD, I'd just replace that and hold off on buying a new laptop.

That being said don't let this scare you off if you're trying to decide to get a MBP. Mine was ran over with a car and has been working flawlessly before it, and even almost a year after it was run over. These problems just came up suddenly. It is also the 1st generation Macbook Pro.
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You should replace the part that got run over. I believe that will solve all your problems. Wait...


Seriously though, its cool that it lasted a year after being run over. Assuming it got flattened a bit, it could be simply you got 2 things really close together, and now, because of something else that happened, they touched. Causing random things to happen. Or its tired, and wants to die with honor. ;)
 
Yeah, the 2k MBP was ran over by a car. But it worked much longer that I had expected it to. The LCD did not even crack.

But I made the thread to see if these were common problems that had little/nothing to do with my accident. That way I could save some money for now and wait till another revision comes out that seems worthwhile.

Thanks for the help.
 
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