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<blockquote data-quote="WorldWideOliver" data-source="post: 1094191" data-attributes="member: 134783"><p>So I guess a while back macbook pros came down with a bit of a deadly problem with GPUs, to which Apple offered a free repair (see link?):</p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/169837-kernal-panics-gpu-issue.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/169837-kernal-panics-gpu-issue.html</a></p><p></p><p>Yesterday I encountered the same problem with my mac pro 2008 model (<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/SP11" target="_blank">Mac Pro (Early 2008) - Technical Specifications</a>). It froze in the middle of use.</p><p>-I could use the mouse, but nothing was responsive</p><p>-Any key combination was unresponsive</p><p>-Blue and sometimes yellow squiggely lines covered the screen, although the desktop was still visible</p><p></p><p>The only resort was to restart using the power button. The problem has persisted - sometimes it boots and works for an hour, sometimes it boots and works for five seconds, or most times it loads up with a picture like the one shown, gives the apple logo, the swirl, and once the swirl has finished loading simply freezes. </p><p></p><p>Occasionally I also get the black screen of death along with blue bars/squiggely lines (usually squiggely lines if it crashes after booting, blue straight lines if it crashes/is going to crash while booting).</p><p></p><p>I tried resetting the PRAM with command option p r, to no avail</p><p></p><p>These are the same symptoms as described in the other forum link above - ie. I think its the GPU or logic board, any thoughts?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]13263[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WorldWideOliver, post: 1094191, member: 134783"] So I guess a while back macbook pros came down with a bit of a deadly problem with GPUs, to which Apple offered a free repair (see link?): [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/169837-kernal-panics-gpu-issue.html[/url] Yesterday I encountered the same problem with my mac pro 2008 model ([url=http://support.apple.com/kb/SP11]Mac Pro (Early 2008) - Technical Specifications[/url]). It froze in the middle of use. -I could use the mouse, but nothing was responsive -Any key combination was unresponsive -Blue and sometimes yellow squiggely lines covered the screen, although the desktop was still visible The only resort was to restart using the power button. The problem has persisted - sometimes it boots and works for an hour, sometimes it boots and works for five seconds, or most times it loads up with a picture like the one shown, gives the apple logo, the swirl, and once the swirl has finished loading simply freezes. Occasionally I also get the black screen of death along with blue bars/squiggely lines (usually squiggely lines if it crashes after booting, blue straight lines if it crashes/is going to crash while booting). I tried resetting the PRAM with command option p r, to no avail These are the same symptoms as described in the other forum link above - ie. I think its the GPU or logic board, any thoughts? Thanks in advance? [ATTACH=full]13263[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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