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- Your Mac's Specs
- '09 27" iMac, '08 MacBook Pro, 32g iPhone 3Gs, 160g iPod Classic, 40g iPod, 16g (mod) iPod Mini
My early 08 MBP has worked flawlessly since I bought it, until now. And I use it A LOT.
I upgraded the hard disk 2 years ago and it has worked without incident since. It is a 750 gb. I also upgraded the memory 3 years ago to 4 gigs, again never an issue. It has OS X Lion installed and I can't remember the version, though I did that shortly after lion was released.
About 4-5 days before it quit working I noticed the underside of the case got much warmer than usual, the heat coming from between the battery and where the display hinges. I shut it off and monitored it, but really didn't notice a problem. Then the computer crashed and just before it did, there were rectangular cut outs of the screen about .25x.75 inch in a repeating pattern with green wavy lines inside a dark background. The first time it did this, I restarted the computer and it re booted fine until sometime later. And the process repeated.
Now the computer will start to a light powder blue background with a white plaid overly... The spinner spins under the apple for a while, then I get the multilingual notice that I need to restart the computer.... And this process repeats itself.
I cannot boot to the hardware test, or any other option except it will boot into target disc and I can zap the PRAM. I have not tried to boot from the start up disc because I cannot at the moment locate mine.
Anybody have a similar experience? I am suspecting logic board, what with the hot bottom cabinet, but IDK how to verify except to go toapple, and since I suspect this is gonna be expensive, I don't want to incur a charge to have them tell me it's toast.
Thank You!
I upgraded the hard disk 2 years ago and it has worked without incident since. It is a 750 gb. I also upgraded the memory 3 years ago to 4 gigs, again never an issue. It has OS X Lion installed and I can't remember the version, though I did that shortly after lion was released.
About 4-5 days before it quit working I noticed the underside of the case got much warmer than usual, the heat coming from between the battery and where the display hinges. I shut it off and monitored it, but really didn't notice a problem. Then the computer crashed and just before it did, there were rectangular cut outs of the screen about .25x.75 inch in a repeating pattern with green wavy lines inside a dark background. The first time it did this, I restarted the computer and it re booted fine until sometime later. And the process repeated.
Now the computer will start to a light powder blue background with a white plaid overly... The spinner spins under the apple for a while, then I get the multilingual notice that I need to restart the computer.... And this process repeats itself.
I cannot boot to the hardware test, or any other option except it will boot into target disc and I can zap the PRAM. I have not tried to boot from the start up disc because I cannot at the moment locate mine.
Anybody have a similar experience? I am suspecting logic board, what with the hot bottom cabinet, but IDK how to verify except to go toapple, and since I suspect this is gonna be expensive, I don't want to incur a charge to have them tell me it's toast.
Thank You!