[Sneaky Snake]

I'm trying to boot my MBP (see sig). It makes the normal startup sound, but the screen is completely black. My fear is that this is the infamous graphic card issue with these MBP's. The computer is long out of warranty - it was purchased in the spring of 07.

Is there any way to resurrect it?

[Hansi]

It's the 8600 issue. I've seen ten machines with this issue so far. Apple extended the warranty on the motherboard to three years from purchasing date so give them a call/visit.

[teflon]

Don't worry about the warranty, this issue is covered by a 3 year extended warranty from Apple, so just take it to them and they'll sort it for you free of charge.

[Sneaky Snake]

teflon, on October 27th 2009, 06:51 PM, said:

Don't worry about the warranty, this issue is covered by a 3 year extended warranty from Apple, so just take it to them and they'll sort it for you free of charge.

I took it in today. The guy was 99% sure that was my problem, and its fixable for free as you said. Whew! I was scared there. Looks like I'll have pretty much a brand new laptop, this one was getting a little slow and glitchy, even though i just did a fresh install.

Thanks all

[teflon]

The glitchy-ness could be partly down to the GPU death going on, so fingers cross this will fix it (its literally replacing the entire logic board with the CPU and GPU and everything on it... just look at the receipt you get afterwards for how big a deal that is).

[Sneaky Snake]

teflon, on October 29th 2009, 06:34 AM, said:

The glitchy-ness could be partly down to the GPU death going on, so fingers cross this will fix it (its literally replacing the entire logic board with the CPU and GPU and everything on it... just look at the receipt you get afterwards for how big a deal that is).

I believe the guy in the store told me the repair is $2100 if it wasn't covered by apple. Thats the price of the new high end iMac here in Canada

I'm very happy though that I'm getting it all replaced. Once I buy a new HDD, I'll essentially have a new computer minus the optical drive