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So are all MBP owners with the 8600m GT cards screwed?

My SR 2.2/128 that I got in March 08 is still running alright...so far.

I've had some hard freezes / lockups that require me to hold the power button down to restart it, since the computer would become unresponsive.

I usually have it connected to my 24" but rarely play games via bootcamp. Perhaps I am one of the lucky ones?

*knocks on wood*

D
 
Latest Victim

The graphics card on my MBP 17" HD Santa Rosa purchased September 2007 died yesterday also. Took it into the local Apple store. They diagnosed it as such and said it would take five days for me to get it back (covered under Apple Care). I'm praying my hard drive survives the surgery. My latest clone backup is more than two weeks old and I need what's on there since then. Stupid of me not to back up last week when I normally do! I shall ask the Genius when they call me to come pick it up exactly what they replaced the gpu with. I feel totally stranded and vulnerable without my MBP. All my work is on there, my music, photos. I have learned two very valuable lessons from this: back up EVERY DAY, and have TWO COMPUTERS that can be synced! I'm posting this from a friend's Dell. How ironic.
 
iJeremy said:
The graphics card on my MBP 17" HD Santa Rosa purchased September 2007 died yesterday also. Took it into the local Apple store. They diagnosed it as such and said it would take five days for me to get it back (covered under Apple Care). I'm praying my hard drive survives the surgery. My latest clone backup is more than two weeks old and I need what's on there since then. Stupid of me not to back up last week when I normally do! I shall ask the Genius when they call me to come pick it up exactly what they replaced the gpu with. I feel totally stranded and vulnerable without my MBP. All my work is on there, my music, photos. I have learned two very valuable lessons from this: back up EVERY DAY, and have TWO COMPUTERS that can be synced!
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Two words: "time machine" :)
 
Company of Heroes on MBP

Does anyone know why Company of Heroes runs fine on my 17" MBP (on Boot Camp) ... except for the fact that it doesn't render any soldiers, tanks etc...? (I can see the dust from their footfalls and tank treads, but no actual soldiers) I have the latest driver for my NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT which Relic supposedly supports.
People say this graphics card is troubled, but I've had no previous problems with it, works great for everything I've used it for so far.
The other puzzling thing to me is that the single-player demo runs great and looks fine, while Opposing Fronts is not rendering soldiers. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Macbook Pro 17" dual 2.4ghz, 4G RAM
 
macbookprizo17 said:
Does anyone know why Company of Heroes runs fine on my 17" MBP (on Boot Camp) ... except for the fact that it doesn't render any soldiers, tanks etc...? (I can see the dust from their footfalls and tank treads, but no actual soldiers) I have the latest driver for my NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT which Relic supposedly supports.
People say this graphics card is troubled, but I've had no previous problems with it, works great for everything I've used it for so far.
The other puzzling thing to me is that the single-player demo runs great and looks fine, while Opposing Fronts is not rendering soldiers. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Macbook Pro 17" dual 2.4ghz, 4G RAM
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Do you have all the game's patches loaded? COH & COH OF ran fine on my SR MBP before I sold it. I was running Vista Business 32bit and it ran just fine. I have to use High and not DX10 and then set some of the other settings to med or low, no aa, etc.

Look here for tech support help too.

http://www.gamereplays.org/community/-CoH-Section.html

Cheers,
 
glad mine (17" 2.4GHz Santa Rosa) is under applecare... display just went this morning:mad:
appt with applestore on sunday (earliest appt)
hopefully I won't be without it for long....
maybe they'll screw it up and have to give me a new unibody 17;)
 
why wait till sunday, i'd get on the horn with applecare and have them send you a box and hopefully you'll get your mbp by Tue instead of waiting an extra day or two.
 
My MBP 2.2 graphics card went belly up yesterday :mad: . The apple reseller here in Argentina, is asking Apple if I should get a free repair (The MBP is out of warranty and I dont have Apple Care). I'm preparing myself for being raped in standing position.
 
JavierP said:
My MBP 2.2 graphics card went belly up yesterday :mad: . The apple reseller here in Argentina, is asking Apple if I should get a free repair (The MBP is out of warranty and I dont have Apple Care). I'm preparing myself for being raped in standing position.
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In the US warranty was extended to 24 months if the problem was related to failed nvidia GPIU. Don't know whether that applied to overseas sales.

Cheers,
 
panzer06 said:
In the US warranty was extended to 24 months if the problem was related to failed nvidia GPIU. Don't know whether that applied to overseas sales.

Cheers,
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Yeah, the reseller said to me that they have to send some serial numbers to Apple and wait for their free repair approval. I'm just being pessimistic :D
 
Does apple replace the entire machine if the 8600m fails or just the gpu? considering i have had 3 major repairs already i would expect a more stable replacement
 
Me too...

It really does seem like they pack it in after about a year's use. I got mine on January 20th 2008 and the GPU just died. Black screen, no external output, tried all the hardware resets to no avail.

I'm so glad Apple will fix it for free, though (fingers crossed). Bringing it in tomorrow.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 :(
 
Mine today too it looks like. Display doesn't turn on but the machine boots up (connects to the network and I can ping it). Taking it in on Wednesday.
 
TeddyCarey said:
Does apple replace the entire machine if the 8600m fails or just the gpu? considering i have had 3 major repairs already i would expect a more stable replacement
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They replace the mlb (main logic board aka motherboard). The gpu is soldered onto the mlb so it's the only way to replace the gpu on a mbp.
 
For those looking for tips to see whether they laptop boots or not, I noticed my laptop still booted despite no display because my backlit keyboard came on :)
 
This is a sad day for me :(, my mbp graphic card just gone kaput, its the 2.4 / 256 vram ... I manage to logged in,and about 3 to 5 seconds the machine hangs with distorted images and beach ball... i've tried to clear pram and reset smc, but fail.
since my mbp just out of warranty (29 march 09) and I didn't have applecare, hopefully the apple reseller in Indonesia would apply this from apple http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

*fingers crossed*
 
You all making me sweat every day! But I'm always checking the temp before shutting it down... I won't put it asleep until its cooled down to normal running temperature.
 
After over a year of creating this thread and people still contributing, I have come to the conclusion to the thread's original question.

YES, all 8600m GT users are screwed to a certain degree...
 
So, for those of you that have had this repaired, what are the chances that I actually get my hard drive back? They always warn you to backup, but I'm not sure if not getting your drive back is the exception or the rule.
 
Cubsfan said:
So, for those of you that have had this repaired, what are the chances that I actually get my hard drive back? They always warn you to backup, but I'm not sure if not getting your drive back is the exception or the rule.
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I used an Apple ASC so they did not do anything with my added equipment,however, we've seen many occasions where apple will just replace the HD as part of the test, also sometimes they just replace the whole system so your mods are gone. It's always best to put the system back to original if sending to Apple or just use the ASC.

Cheers,
 
Hard Drive Intact

I got my MacBook Pro back from the local Apple Store on Sunday with the hard drive intact. It took them five days to replace the faulty Nvidia graphics card. I asked which part they had replaced my original Nvidia graphics card with, but they refused to tell me. When I got home, the system seemed fine, but slower. My biggest issue was that my Time Machine backup no longer "recognized" my Macintosh HD as the "source volume". I called Apple Care and they told me the only choices I had were to restore the entire drive with the Time Machine backup or start a new Time Machine backup from scratch. My Mac is still slow booting. I've repaired permissions and cleaned out the cache files. I'm sure the system will speed up soon.
 
Cubsfan said:
So, for those of you that have had this repaired, what are the chances that I actually get my hard drive back? They always warn you to backup, but I'm not sure if not getting your drive back is the exception or the rule.
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Mine was handled via an Apple Store and when I got it back the hard drive and everything was just fine, they only replaced the mlb.
 
I hate this thread! Mine has failed once already, and this just reminds me of the ticking time bomb that I'm typing on right now.:(
 
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