Hey everybody,
Long time lurker on the forum yet have never needed to sign up untill now!
I purchased a MacBook Pro in august 2007 from a retailer and have had nearly two years of trouble free computing. However i have recently encouted some serious problems with my system. Erratic behavior, over heating, scrambled screen and the inability to boot most of the time. At first i suspected a softwear fault yet after these symptoms continued after a fresh instal of osx i fear that is not the case. After some research on the internet i can see that the problems i am facing are pointing towards the gpu failing. Now, i do not have applecare on my system but was wondering; if i were to bring my system to be serviced at a apple retail unit and the problem was indeed a faulty GPU, would i be expected to pick up the bill?
I understand that if the problem proved to be anything eles i would have to pay for the repair,yet considering that the chip has been deemed to be faulty what would be the outcome of such a service on my system?
Thank you all and i look forward to reading your replys,
Ahmet
Long time lurker on the forum yet have never needed to sign up untill now!
I purchased a MacBook Pro in august 2007 from a retailer and have had nearly two years of trouble free computing. However i have recently encouted some serious problems with my system. Erratic behavior, over heating, scrambled screen and the inability to boot most of the time. At first i suspected a softwear fault yet after these symptoms continued after a fresh instal of osx i fear that is not the case. After some research on the internet i can see that the problems i am facing are pointing towards the gpu failing. Now, i do not have applecare on my system but was wondering; if i were to bring my system to be serviced at a apple retail unit and the problem was indeed a faulty GPU, would i be expected to pick up the bill?
I understand that if the problem proved to be anything eles i would have to pay for the repair,yet considering that the chip has been deemed to be faulty what would be the outcome of such a service on my system?
Thank you all and i look forward to reading your replys,
Ahmet
