MBP Display Issues - Logic Board?

Are you close to an apple store? It can't hurt to see if its the Nvidia graphics card thats dying... applecare will extend the warranty to replace the board even if your applecare has expired if it is indeed the graphics card. But the fact that it can be temporarily fixed during rebooting...

 

Try holding down ctrl+alt+cmd+8

That's the screen inverter... looks like your display's gone negative - it may be a simple fix like that..

 

If ctrl+alt+cmd+8 then its a broken graphics card, definately not the logic board, however the logic board would need replacing if the graphics card is broken because in the MBP's the graphics card is soldiered to the motherboard

 

I heard that replacing your hard drive voids your warranty... So if you did go to an Apple store and they saw that you had a different hard drive in there, they might not honor your warranty/Apple Care.

 

THATS WRONG!! REPLACING YOUR HARD DRIVE DOES NOT VOID YOUR APPLE WARRANTY!!!
Just to clear things up, upgrading your RAM DOES NOT void your warranty too.

 

Actually, in the new MacBook Pro (Late 2008), upgrading your hard drive is as easy as removing the battery cover and a few screws, and does not void the warranty.

However, previous models of the MacBook Pro are considered to have one "user serviceable" part, and that is the RAM. Any other modifications will void the warranty, including upgrading the hard drive (although most Geniuses at the Genius Bars will turn a blind eye to this). This is due to the fact that in order to access the hard drive, you have to remove the entire top case assembly, which can be very tricky.

 

When the logic board died in my Early 2008 MBP the screen went all pixelated. Like in BIG blocks. It booted up with the apple logo all fine, but as soon as log in screen appeared, it became a horrible mess of big coloured squares.

Did the same thing on external display. Broke my heart hahaha.

Yeah take it into the apple store, I hope its not a logic board. Apple should pay for everything but its inconvenient losing your laptop for 1-3 days.

 

Wrong again...

Regarding older Santa Rosa MacBookPro's.
Any parts the USER changes out will not be covered by the Apple Warranty (and why should they?). If later, the system fails due to a part you've changed. Then Yes, your warranty is VOIDED however, in general it doesn't void the warranty!

 

Thanks for the correction. I was misinformed because almost every site I went to about upgrading MB and MBP hard drives said that it would void the warranty.

 

Yeah I've talk to Apple many times and sent in my computer a number of times with components upgraded and my warranty was valid every time.

 

brynsank, I wouldn't be eager to tell them you've been inside, however, even if just to change a HDD. Despite what all of these posts above say regarding hard drive replacement on the now "classic" MBPs, I have had an Apple service guy tell me that they would not have accepted my very own 3,1 for service had he known ahead of time I had replaced my HDD myself. The issue (dead laptop) was not at all related to the HDD and did not in any way coincide with my installation. I didn't argue with him about it (he was fixing my machine outside warranty for free anyhow).

Anyway, I certainly *think* that the HDD replacement should be a user installable part and used to completely agree that it was, until a couple of months ago when the above occurred.