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Hello there,
I have recently been noticing weird things with my early 2008 MacBook Pro, and it all started by a weird noise that happened a couple of days ago for a few hours and then stopped. It came from the right side of the computer and I am not sure if that's a fan, hard disk, graphics card, or whatever.
Anyway, it was all good afterwords when it stopped, till an hour ago when I was working on Windows 7 and the computer suddenly restarted. It booted in Windows 7 and it gave me an error saying "Blue Screen" or whatever so I was like okay.. that tends to happen so it's an operating system issue. However, the computer suddenly freeze and restarted, and that's what I keep getting:
As you can see, it seems like a video card issue. I did the Apple Hardware Test a couple of days ago and it gave me an error code with Video Card written next to it. I googled it and all the results said the same thing: that's a normal error code with MacBook Pros that use Nividia GeForce 8600M GT and it doesn't mean it's screwed.
It worked fine even after displaying that error code but I guess it is demolished now.
Any suggestions, guys? I'm sure if I take it to the Apple store they will just dismantle the notebook and replace the video card and I would be forced to pay double the price because Apple stuff in Egypt are so expensive. If there are any other suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thank you!
I have recently been noticing weird things with my early 2008 MacBook Pro, and it all started by a weird noise that happened a couple of days ago for a few hours and then stopped. It came from the right side of the computer and I am not sure if that's a fan, hard disk, graphics card, or whatever.
Anyway, it was all good afterwords when it stopped, till an hour ago when I was working on Windows 7 and the computer suddenly restarted. It booted in Windows 7 and it gave me an error saying "Blue Screen" or whatever so I was like okay.. that tends to happen so it's an operating system issue. However, the computer suddenly freeze and restarted, and that's what I keep getting:
As you can see, it seems like a video card issue. I did the Apple Hardware Test a couple of days ago and it gave me an error code with Video Card written next to it. I googled it and all the results said the same thing: that's a normal error code with MacBook Pros that use Nividia GeForce 8600M GT and it doesn't mean it's screwed.
It worked fine even after displaying that error code but I guess it is demolished now.
Any suggestions, guys? I'm sure if I take it to the Apple store they will just dismantle the notebook and replace the video card and I would be forced to pay double the price because Apple stuff in Egypt are so expensive. If there are any other suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thank you!