My MBP has been having an issue for the past ~9 months or so. Basically, the screen will go black, and I am forced to do a hard reset. I have taken it to the Genius Bar, where I was told it was probably a OS error and I should reinstall. I have done so numerous times now, and the problem seems to only have gotten worse.
Basically, I'd like to hear your guys' thoughts on this and any possible solutions until I have the time to go to the Apple Store again (which won't be for a few months).
More specifics:
Basically, I'd like to hear your guys' thoughts on this and any possible solutions until I have the time to go to the Apple Store again (which won't be for a few months).
More specifics:
- Bought the MBP in summer of 2010
- It is Boot Camped with Windows 7
- What is weird is anything seems to trigger the crash but it will not do it the next time. For example, just after I logged in to post this, my MBP crashed. But as you can see, it did not crash the second time and I am able to post this. I have only identified one site that reliably crashes my MBP.
- If I am watching a video, the audio will continue for maybe 1 second, before getting stuck.
- I think this is probably a related issue, but on my Windows partition, a similar issue occurs. Any game I try to play will cause it the screen to fail before displaying the infamous "video card driver stopped responding and has recovered" message. This had never happened to me before previously and I was able to play DC Universe Online and Rift without error, even after the main MBP crash issue had started happening. This only started happening after I redid Boot Camp after reinstalling the Mac OS.
- When I was trying to play Starcraft II with a friend, I would always lag/disconnect during the time that my screen was out, which makes me think it's not just a video card error?
- It also boots up much slower now.
