Mid-2007 Santa Rosa logic board replacement - fixed?

[Inspiratron]

Hey all,

A couple of years ago, my mid-2007 15" MacBook Pro succumbed to the seemingly inevitable failure of the GeForce 8600M graphics card...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377

Surprisingly, Apple agreed to replace the logic board, despite the computer being a good few months outside of the four-year window for that program.

I'm just wondering now, was the graphics card design on these replacement logic boards actually FIXED, or is replacing the logic board just a stopgap measure to extend the life by another few years? :/ I've had a hard time actually finding a definitive answer online, which is why I'm assuming it's fixed... and I'd love to get another few years out of this thing.

Cheers

 

[chrfr]

Hey all,

A couple of years ago, my mid-2007 15" MacBook Pro succumbed to the seemingly inevitable failure of the GeForce 8600M graphics card...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377

Surprisingly, Apple agreed to replace the logic board, despite the computer being a good few months outside of the four-year window for that program.

I'm just wondering now, was the graphics card design on these replacement logic boards actually FIXED, or is replacing the logic board just a stopgap measure to extend the life by another few years? :/ I've had a hard time actually finding a definitive answer online, which is why I'm assuming it's fixed... and I'd love to get another few years out of this thing.

Cheers

If you dig through the big thread in this forum about it, you will see that a lot of them failed repeatedly even after replacement. There's no evidence that the GPU is actually different in later boards.

 

[Inspiratron]

That's what I feared. Thanks anyway!

 

[poiihy]

Just like the iBook graphics cards