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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Late 2008 Macbook Pro seems to be almost dead.
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<blockquote data-quote="johnodd4" data-source="post: 1613809" data-attributes="member: 331386"><p>yea sorry to here that though it sucks it only happens with the 2008 and alimunium macbook pro's the nvidia chipset was a prototype chipset the nvidia sold to apple for use in these models and it turned out to be more trouble then what there worth.</p><p></p><p>For future reference:</p><p></p><p>if you ever run into a friends or family members macbook and you press the power and all you hear is the hard drive spinning up and the cd drive coming on same thing nvidia chipset has died.</p><p></p><p>this is how you can diagnose other MacBooks that have this failure i would also look online at ebay you might be able to find a 2008 with a bad screen but a good board and get it cheaper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnodd4, post: 1613809, member: 331386"] yea sorry to here that though it sucks it only happens with the 2008 and alimunium macbook pro's the nvidia chipset was a prototype chipset the nvidia sold to apple for use in these models and it turned out to be more trouble then what there worth. For future reference: if you ever run into a friends or family members macbook and you press the power and all you hear is the hard drive spinning up and the cd drive coming on same thing nvidia chipset has died. this is how you can diagnose other MacBooks that have this failure i would also look online at ebay you might be able to find a 2008 with a bad screen but a good board and get it cheaper [/QUOTE]
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