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Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Sep 24th, 2009 |
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I’m back up and running. This post is being written on my repaired MacBook Pro!
Wednesday night (9/23) the status of my laptop changed from “On hold” to “Repaired”. And to my surprise this morning I saw that it was out on a FedEx truck for delivery to my house. Apple had shipped it overnight from their repair facility in Texas!
Upon opening the laptop, it showed two items as being repaired:
605-1791 Logic Board (No Video)
616-0261 Battery (Runtime Too Short)
I had never noticed that my battery runtime was too short, but then I don’t use the MacBook Pro on...
Posted by
Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Sep 22nd, 2009 |
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It appears a lot of people have been affected by the NVIDIA chip bug. A poster on the Apple Discussion forums posted that he suspects more people are being affected by this now because of Snow Leopard, which uses the GPU more heavily. This seems plausible to me.
Anyway, still no love for my MacBook Pro. It’s been sitting at the Apple Repair Center since 9/15 with the status “On hold – Part on order”. As of today that means the part has been on order for a week and still hasn’t arrived. So more waiting for me.
Considering that others have said the repair has taken...
Posted by
Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Sep 14th, 2009 |
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For those of you in the same boat, here is an update regarding the dead displays on my MacBook Pro.
I arrived at my noontime Genius appointment a few minutes early and they were able to take me right away. The Genius was aware of the NVIDIA issue and after a quick test to confirm the displays were dead, took it out back to do a “specific test for the NVIDIA issue”. He came back a few minutes later and confirmed that this was the NVIDIA chip failure.
Unfortunately for me, they don’t do repairs in the store so my MacBook Pro had to be sent out (with an estimated 5-7 business days...
Posted by
Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Sep 11th, 2009 |
5 Comments
Damn it! My MacBook Pro has succumbed to the dreaded NVIDIA graphics processor defect. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT apparently can stop working various MacBook Pros from 2007 and 2008. It’s bad enough that Apple extended the repair period to be up to 3 years from date of purchase, which is fortunate since this laptop is about 18 months old and out-of-warranty.
In retrospect, the video had been acting a little flaky lately. Sometimes the displays would not come back up after waking from sleep, for example.
Everything was fine this morning; the system booted normally. I decided to apply...
Posted by
Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Jul 24th, 2008 |
4 Comments
I purchased a MacBook Pro a few months ago. It’s been great, but I found the screen to be a bit small for my liking. So I added an external monitor, an old Formac 17″ LCD (1280×1024) that I’ve been using for years. That worked pretty well, but I just didn’t feel I had enough screen space.
As luck would have it, I found a used 23″ Apple Cinema Display on Craigslist at a bargain price. A MacBook Pro with a Cinema Display is the way to go! I tossed aside the Formac with nary a thought.
But then I thought it would be cool to also make use of the Formac as well,...
