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MacBook Pro: Serious Hardware Issue
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<blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 1112361" data-attributes="member: 68040"><p>Hello there,</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1910/img00052201009152052.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7984/img00050201009152034.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/818/img00049201009152022.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8587/img00048201009152022.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9345/img00051201009152046.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>It worked fine even after displaying that error code but I guess it is demolished now.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Thank you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarek, post: 1112361, member: 68040"] 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: [IMG]http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1910/img00052201009152052.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7984/img00050201009152034.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/818/img00049201009152022.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8587/img00048201009152022.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9345/img00051201009152046.jpg[/IMG] 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! [/QUOTE]
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