Just had my THIRD 8600 fail. Yes not once, not twice but THREE times now. They replaced the mobo again. Annoying that Apple won't replace my machine already.
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So are all MBP owners with the 8600m GT cards screwed?
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Did you ask for a replacement? I would have asked to speak to a manager about the issue. Maybe you can call Apple Care and speak with someone there.
I'm worried about my GPU starting problems again. The thing is, for a year and a half, I lived in Australia, and the closest Apple Retail store was about 60-70 kilometers away (and a lot of the city roads drove around 50-60 KM/H, along with LOTS of traffic jams. The thing was, I was able to get to the Retail store (the local Premium Reseller/Authorized Service Providers was just bad, with completely bad customer support etc. etc.). Now I am back home, and there are no Apple Retail Stores ANYWHERE here. We have lots of Premium Resellers and AASP here though. The problem is, all Apple related stuff in the region is run by a Special Distributor before the Mac came around I think, so Apple didn't want to compete with them. The problems is (as with all I have contacted Premium Resellers/AASPs, they have no idea about Mac warranties and replacement/repair programs. So what do I do?
Thanks,
AnonMac50.
Thanks,
AnonMac50.
I've had the logic board replaced once, but lately I've been noticing something else. The whole screen will randomly start flickering and will completely lock/freeze everything, no commands or anything will work. I have to manually turn the power off and then on again. Has anyone experienced this before? It's done this about 5 or 6 times and is completely random. I never had any warning signs before the gpu died the first time.
I' pretty sure that was from the symptoms that went away after replacing my logic board the first time.
I got back 2 computers this morning took 4 days. One computer had boot camp on it and when it came back they deleted the boot camp partition. has this happened to anyone else? The bad news is i now have 2 more to send in. They seem to be dead at 3.5 years from light use.
Those were the symptoms I had as well when my logic board was replaced for the second time (it was replaced for the first time about a year ago when the video card suddenly died because of the nvidia issue). There were many NVDA parse errors in the kernel log when this happened a few wks ago. I also took a video before I brought it in with a copy of the NVIDIA kb article. About a week later, they replaced it again because the same issue happened with the replacement.
Like this?
Then the restart here:
After the restart here:
Yes, looks very similair. This is so annoying dealing with this.
Update : The logic board was replaced Friday night and everything was fine. However, after waking my computer from sleep this evening I saw the same problem I had last week. I believe the new graphics card is failing again. I booked a Genius Bar appointment for this Thursday.
This is really aggravating.
I have a question for those of you who have had your LB replaced. How do you fix Time Machine so that you can continue using the same backups? Time Machine recognizes that my backups were created from a different computer and I am not sure how to fix this. It says "If you reuse this backup it can no longer be used by the original computer."
This is really aggravating.
I have a question for those of you who have had your LB replaced. How do you fix Time Machine so that you can continue using the same backups? Time Machine recognizes that my backups were created from a different computer and I am not sure how to fix this. It says "If you reuse this backup it can no longer be used by the original computer."
You can select reuse this backup. Time Machine only thinks you have a different computer because you have a new logic board. Time machine will pickup where it left off and work with your "new" logic board. Good luck with your genius bar appointment.
Thanks for the reply. Will I be able to access all my previous backups like I did with my "old" LB with a different Mac address?
buggs, you are correct. I guess I was just unlikely with this situation. The Rev 2 boards are supposedly not prone to failures. How true that is, I do not know.
Yeah, you'll be able to access all your old backups as though nothing has changed.
It's getting easier and easier to reproduce the incident. All I have to do is go to Hulu and start playing a video full screen. I just got through causing the incident to occur twice and each time I was only 4 minutes into the video. I keep trying to watch Ultimate Factories where they're building the Chevrolet Corvette.
Don't you believe it. There are so many people on 3rd or 4th repairs it's rather a joke. I'd personally recommend anyone with more than 2 repairs politely demand a replacement MBP.
I've said all along Apple's just waiting for these to get to 4-5 years old and claim they've reached the end of useful life and drop support altogether. nVidia's left Apple a mess and they are tired of cleaning it up.
Cheers,
I have had 7 rev 2 boards fail on 3 computers to prove they are no better.
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That's absolutely terrible. Has Apple offered replacements for any of your machines? Also, do you really work the GPU hard during your use? Between the repair Friday night and the issue coming back yesterday, I did not do a single graphics-intensive operation.
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That's absolutely terrible. Has Apple offered replacements for any of your machines? Also, do you really work the GPU hard during your use? Between the repair Friday night and the issue coming back yesterday, I did not do a single graphics-intensive operation.
You should have mentioned to them the 'lemon' policy.
You might be entitled to a refund or a machine valued at same price of your original machine (as long as it was covered by AppleCare).
2 replacement machines. Both unibody replacements I did play games between classes then put it to sleep.
Model: - MacBook Pro (Early 2008)
Codename: - ?
Build Country: - Your Mac was built in Changhai, China.
Build Year: - Your Mac was built in 2008.
Build Week - Your Mac was built in week 23 of that year (June).
Production Nr.: - Your Mac was number 1105 to be built that week.
Hi guys,
Just got my screen replaced under apple care and the guy told me that my GPU passed the hardware test.
are there any stress tests to check the gpu?
Ta
Codename: - ?
Build Country: - Your Mac was built in Changhai, China.
Build Year: - Your Mac was built in 2008.
Build Week - Your Mac was built in week 23 of that year (June).
Production Nr.: - Your Mac was number 1105 to be built that week.
Hi guys,
Just got my screen replaced under apple care and the guy told me that my GPU passed the hardware test.
are there any stress tests to check the gpu?
Ta
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