Snowy screen on unibody

[alphaod]

I have this weird issue on my MBP. Every time I go to the boot screen after holding option to choose Windows, I get this snowy screen like the ones you get from static on your TV. It only lasts a few seconds. However that's the only time it ever happens and I can run graphic intensive applications and such without any errors in the both OS X and Windows. I captured it on my phone as shown here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL7EJxFoMtE

I'm really bewildered to what the issue is, and I don't want to carry my monitory and computer to the store unless I need to.

 

[jjahshik32]

Whoa~ that is definitely not normal. I've never seen any macbook pro exhibit those symptoms.

 

[kastenbrust]

I'm fairly sure thats a problem with your inverter, take it back to your nearest Apple Store and get them to have a look at it for you because if its starting to break already you dont want to be out of warranty when it finally kicks the bucket.

 

[alphaod]

I'm fairly sure thats a problem with your inverter

I thought LED panels didn't have an inverter.

 

[kastenbrust]

no your right but they have an equivalent to control led brightness, otherwise there would be no manual brightness control which of course MAC OS X does have and the problem is here.

 

[bcaslis]

Is the display the 24" cinema or the MBP LED (it looks like it's the cinema). On the MBP when windows is started the LED goes blank for a second like video goes off while the drivers load. If you are getting static on the cinema, but not on the MBP, then I would guess it's probably normal and caused by the displayport not driving correctly for a couple of seconds.

 

[alphaod]

Is the display the 24" cinema or the MBP LED (it looks like it's the cinema). On the MBP when windows is started the LED goes blank for a second like video goes off while the drivers load. If you are getting static on the cinema, but not on the MBP, then I would guess it's probably normal and caused by the displayport not driving correctly for a couple of seconds.

Yeah it only happens on the monitor. This didn't happen before, only maybe a few days ago.