Severe Problems with MBP

[Carpetfizz]

Hello,
My cousin has a Macbook Pro which is at least two years old, and it has been encountering some bad problems recently. There are two main problems described below.

DVD Drive:
-Optical Superdrive makes clicking noises when trying to mount blank disks and fails to burn them, eventually ejecting them by itself. Apple had replaced it a while back, but they haven't kept information on the replacement so they refused to service it.

Fans and Overheating:
-Computer reaches really high temeperatures and the fans vary randomly from 10RPM to 2003 RPM.

Thanks for your help. I understand that at this point, it seems as it has reached the end of its life, but I would really appreciate some help if anybody is familiar with MBP Hardware.

Carpetfizz

 

[Carpetfizz]

Bump.

 

[elpmas]

Doubt most people will have similar hardware problems...but by any chance does your cousin have apple care? If worst comes to worst, I would sell it on CL and get the $ to buy a new MBP.

 

[Nostromo]

Just from the top of my head:

1. Use Apple hardware test:

http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs...are-test-other-diagnostics-test-hardware.html

2. Go to the next Apple store and go to the genius bar.

This should help you to know more about your Mac's problems.