So, I have the latest MBP that came out before the unibodys. 2,5 ghz 15" with the dreaded faulty graphic chips.
The last months it's really been acting up, this computer used to be blazingly fast but now it's slower than my GF's ibook G4, it's crazy.
Clean installs, updates, nothing helps. All I get is input-lag, crashes (all apps, all the time, its crazy unstable), beach-balls, stalls. It can take safari 5 min to launch and every time I open up a new tab or do anything I have to wait for lag and stalling.
It's like it's something eating all the rescources alltough there aren't, cpu use could hoover around 15% and I can have 3gb ram unused and it's still slow like ****.
I can't watch even a standard-def DIVX movie without it lagging, not in VLC or quicktime. I though it had something to do with Snow Leopard beeing **** so just to test I installed a clean XP under bootcamp and the same thing is happening there - wich leads me to believe this is some hardware error, the question is just what hardware?
Where should I start? Ram, CPU, Graphics, Mobo? It's not under warranty any longer but do you think it could somehow fall under the extended warranty of the gpu?
I don't know if it's gpu related but I seem to get more crashes in Photoshop and After Effects when it's using the gpu (open-gl acceleration and so on) but I've never seen any artifacts or had any other problem.
My fans and temps seems to be ok so I guess it shouldn't be due to throttling?
I'm just so feed up and tired of this now I feel like I just want to dump this p-o-s in the dumpster and buy a new one, unfortunately I'm a piss poor student..
Any ideas? Thanks for your help!
The last months it's really been acting up, this computer used to be blazingly fast but now it's slower than my GF's ibook G4, it's crazy.
Clean installs, updates, nothing helps. All I get is input-lag, crashes (all apps, all the time, its crazy unstable), beach-balls, stalls. It can take safari 5 min to launch and every time I open up a new tab or do anything I have to wait for lag and stalling.
It's like it's something eating all the rescources alltough there aren't, cpu use could hoover around 15% and I can have 3gb ram unused and it's still slow like ****.
I can't watch even a standard-def DIVX movie without it lagging, not in VLC or quicktime. I though it had something to do with Snow Leopard beeing **** so just to test I installed a clean XP under bootcamp and the same thing is happening there - wich leads me to believe this is some hardware error, the question is just what hardware?
Where should I start? Ram, CPU, Graphics, Mobo? It's not under warranty any longer but do you think it could somehow fall under the extended warranty of the gpu?
I don't know if it's gpu related but I seem to get more crashes in Photoshop and After Effects when it's using the gpu (open-gl acceleration and so on) but I've never seen any artifacts or had any other problem.
My fans and temps seems to be ok so I guess it shouldn't be due to throttling?
I'm just so feed up and tired of this now I feel like I just want to dump this p-o-s in the dumpster and buy a new one, unfortunately I'm a piss poor student..
Any ideas? Thanks for your help!