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I wonder if mine will ever break because I use SMC fan control and keep it at 3000rpm when plugged in. Temps never exceed 70 degrees because of my manual control :D Is this a good or bad thing what I'm doing? My MBP is over a year old and I purchased Apple Care 3 days before Apple announced the 3 year extended warranty for the GPU :mad:
 
I can watch stuff on HULU with mine sitting on a pillow or comforter and mine never gets over 80 C. So mine will prob. die a day after the warranty runs out.
 
Yeah I don't think there's an official policy on replacements, but I'm fairly confident that if this 2nd rev doesn't fail now, it will most likely fail after my AC runs out, which is why I'm worried. IMO with an issue like a GPU defect, they should replace the machine after the 1st time itself, especially considering that the production/manufacturing of this particular GPU is now really low so its not like they can go back and start producing new batches of fixed 8600M GTs when the current generation is in the GT2XX range, a whole 3 generations later. I really don't care whether it's a unibody pro or not for the replacement, as long as it doesn't have same GPU of the affected one, which unfortunately, does not leave many options other than the uMBP. If a Penryn Alu MBP had a 9 series GPU, I wouldn't mind getting that.
 
Hello,

Just a question. If you send your MBP for repair... the new logic board is safe?! or it still has the bug???

thnx
Tasos
 
considering that the production/manufacturing of this particular GPU is now really low so its not like they can go back and start producing new batches of fixed 8600M GTs when the current generation is in the GT2XX range, a whole 3 generations later.

Well if the chips keeps failing and class actions ensue, they will have to.
 
Took my Macbook Pro into Bristol Apple store - and got it back with a receipt for £737.15

I dunno if it was warranty anyway - but apparently when they tapped me in i was registered under Apple Care New Zealand - I wasn't gonna complain :D

( p.s. - I am not in any way connected to NZ )
 
OK so this is a 75 page thread and I don't have time to read through all of it.

I have an April 2008 MBP with the 8600m GT chip. So far no problems touch wood. If it does becomes faulty and is replaced by Apple, what do they replace it with? Yet another 8600m GT? If so, isn't it just going to break again after that? :confused:
 
OK so this is a 75 page thread and I don't have time to read through all of it.

I have an April 2008 MBP with the 8600m GT chip. So far no problems touch wood. If it does becomes faulty and is replaced by Apple, what do they replace it with? Yet another 8600m GT? If so, isn't it just going to break again after that? :confused:

Sadly, but some post point that they replaced by another faulty card.

In fact, some users are reported other kind of problems (not gpu related) with the new motherboard.
 
GeForce 8600M GT:

Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3175

So i guess yes - but hopefully its a revised edition ...
 
Sadly, but some post point that they replaced by another faulty card.

In fact, some users are reported other kind of problems (not gpu related) with the new motherboard.

Wow, that doesn't seem very clever. :mad: I guess there are no other options. NVidia really dropped the ball on this one...
 
there is no such thing as a revised edition, i have owned 3 of these so called revised card's...they all failed.

nvidia has not corrected this issue with the 8400/8600 series, just pushed it aside and moved on.
 
there is no such thing as a revised edition, i have owned 3 of these so called revised card's...they all failed.

nvidia has not corrected this issue with the 8400/8600 series, just pushed it aside and moved on.

are you saying that your 8600m GT chip was replaced two times, and that with the original that is 3 that have failed on you? If so that is ridiculous.
 
GeForce 8600M GT:

Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3175

So i guess yes - but hopefully its a revised edition ...

looks the same with mine!?! Mine is the original one.
Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3212
 
there is no such thing as a revised edition, i have owned 3 of these so called revised card's...they all failed.

nvidia has not corrected this issue with the 8400/8600 series, just pushed it aside and moved on.

That is terrible, did they let you get a new uMBP after the 3rd one?
 
OK so this is a 75 page thread and I don't have time to read through all of it.

I have an April 2008 MBP with the 8600m GT chip. So far no problems touch wood. If it does becomes faulty and is replaced by Apple, what do they replace it with? Yet another 8600m GT? If so, isn't it just going to break again after that? :confused:

I have a MBP SR from 2007, that's still working with the original logic board....
 
I had problems with my 15 inch MBP from 2007 with the 8600, during heavy video use it kept shutting down...apple could not/did not repair it (Apple Care) but replaced the unit with a new one, and hopefully this one will not suffer a similar issue.
 
nVidia never manufactured a second revision of the m8600 gpu. Apple is just updating the sku at their end and hope people assume the "R. 2" means a GPU update.
 
That is terrible, did they let you get a new uMBP after the 3rd one?

i bought 3 of these units, all replaced by unibody's , all had 3 gpu failures.

they were used by family memebers.

mine were 2.2 SR / 128mb 8600gt

i hate the 8600gt , its a useless failed card after i was promised every time the car was a "new revision"

screw that.....its not revised....but devised....a well devised plan to screw people.
 
i bought 3 of these units, all replaced by unibody's , all had 3 gpu failures.

they were used by family memebers.

mine were 2.2 SR / 128mb 8600gt

i hate the 8600gt , its a useless failed card after i was promised every time the car was a "new revision"

screw that.....its not revised....but devised....a well devised plan to screw people.

Perfect. Just the answer I was looking for. Needed to know if there was a correct GPU or not and from MMM's experience, there is none - Apple is using the same GPU and will keep using the GPU until they no longer support the product. Had a few people ask me if they revised the GPU but I couldn't give them a firm answer until now. I will be advising friends and family to not consider the 8600M GT MacBook Pro's and look at the unibody MacBook Pro's. It's scary and unfortunate that everyone out there with the 8600M GT will most likely go through some failure and will keep going through the failure until it is no longer supported.
 
Perfect. Just the answer I was looking for. Needed to know if there was a correct GPU or not and from MMM's experience, there is none - Apple is using the same GPU and will keep using the GPU until they no longer support the product. Had a few people ask me if they revised the GPU but I couldn't give them a firm answer until now. I will be advising friends and family to not consider the 8600M GT MacBook Pro's and look at the unibody MacBook Pro's. It's scary and unfortunate that everyone out there with the 8600M GT will most likely go through some failure and will keep going through the failure until it is no longer supported.

ironic thing is...i bought the SR to replaced a 8400GS dell XPS M1330 that had the same issue....and was replaced until my warranty ran out and then was asked to cough up 700$ to have my motherboard replaced...

i said bye bye dell...and bought the mac...with the same fate...luckily apple heard my story and wouldent let that happen with them.
 
Sounds like the bottom line is that anyone with the 8600m GT cards are screwed regardless of what "revision" you're on... great :(
 
i said bye bye dell...and bought the mac...with the same fate...luckily apple heard my story and wouldent let that happen with them.

Sounds like the bottom line is that anyone with the 8600m GT cards are screwed regardless of what "revision" you're on... great :(

Unfortunately by replacing the gpu with another of the same kind Apple have ensured that the problem rather than being fixed is just being put off again. Once 3 years is up if your gpu fails again your computer is as good as dead. Not very impressive considering how much we pay for MBPs.... I usually keep mine around for 6 years or so as well. :mad:
 
Unfortunately by replacing the gpu with another of the same kind Apple have ensured that the problem rather than being fixed is just being put off again. Once 3 years is up if your gpu fails again your computer is as good as dead. Not very impressive considering how much we pay for MBPs.... I usually keep mine around for 6 years or so as well. :mad:

i realize that, thats why they replaced every one of them with unibody's


i dont blame apple...i blame nvidia for being so cheap on the packaging of the gpu, they tried to cut costs...and it showed...showed big time.
 
i realize that, thats why they replaced every one of them with unibody's


i dont blame apple...i blame nvidia for being so cheap on the packaging of the gpu, they tried to cut costs...and it showed...showed big time.

Perhaps they did, but it didn't seem to cost nvidia too much, they are still in all the mac computers. And meanwhile all of us with $3000 MBPs are just waiting for the chips to explode before we get another one put in that will just do the same. Somewhat frustrating even if it isn't Apple's fault directly.
 
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