Greetings...Apologies in advance for the long post.
I have a July 2007 Macbook Pro w/Santa Rosa chipset that has been working flawless until a week ago.
History:
The VIdeo Monitor started flickering and I had no control of the keyboard. I had to hard reset it to get control. When it re-booted, I got this black screen advising me that I have to restart my mac. Did that 2 times and decided to boot from the Leopard DVD. Once I did that, I ran Disk Repair and it reported a problem with the block count on a file PCSCD.PUB.
Once the disk repair finished...the mac would reboot and be fine. It seemed to work fine for a few days...then it froze up again. I had to repeat the same steps to get the macbook pro to reboot. Same disk error was reported by disk utility.
I took the Mac to the Apple store and the technician ran their diagnostics reported that it was not the common problem with the nVidia 8600M GT video card as reported in Apple support article TS2377.
He ran a 2nd test and stated that the main logic board was bad and that I could send it to apple's repair center for $310.
Questions:
1). If the main board is bad...why does the problem seem to be intermittent. I do not seem to put the mac under any particularly hard load (video editing, etc.). I use the mac for mostly MS-Office, and web browsing. I also use VMWare Fusion with Windows XP. Other than that...I dont think the mac is stressed.
2). Does anyone have any comments/experience with the Apply repair facility? Is it worth the $310 to fix the main board? Or should I just use it as long as I can...then sell it for parts.
3). I updated the mac to Snow Leopard. Could an OS upgrade make a difference?
Any advice/suggestions would be welcome.
I have a July 2007 Macbook Pro w/Santa Rosa chipset that has been working flawless until a week ago.
History:
The VIdeo Monitor started flickering and I had no control of the keyboard. I had to hard reset it to get control. When it re-booted, I got this black screen advising me that I have to restart my mac. Did that 2 times and decided to boot from the Leopard DVD. Once I did that, I ran Disk Repair and it reported a problem with the block count on a file PCSCD.PUB.
Once the disk repair finished...the mac would reboot and be fine. It seemed to work fine for a few days...then it froze up again. I had to repeat the same steps to get the macbook pro to reboot. Same disk error was reported by disk utility.
I took the Mac to the Apple store and the technician ran their diagnostics reported that it was not the common problem with the nVidia 8600M GT video card as reported in Apple support article TS2377.
He ran a 2nd test and stated that the main logic board was bad and that I could send it to apple's repair center for $310.
Questions:
1). If the main board is bad...why does the problem seem to be intermittent. I do not seem to put the mac under any particularly hard load (video editing, etc.). I use the mac for mostly MS-Office, and web browsing. I also use VMWare Fusion with Windows XP. Other than that...I dont think the mac is stressed.
2). Does anyone have any comments/experience with the Apply repair facility? Is it worth the $310 to fix the main board? Or should I just use it as long as I can...then sell it for parts.
3). I updated the mac to Snow Leopard. Could an OS upgrade make a difference?
Any advice/suggestions would be welcome.