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MacBook Pro dead?
Yesterday, working perfectly, this morning, black screen. It makes the startup noise but nothing else. And the extra monitor hooked up via DVI is black too. Could it be a battery issue? The machine is about 2 years old.
Have a wonderful day.
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Sounds like a graphics card failure.
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Sounds like the dreaded Nvidia failure to me. I just had that happen to mine and had to take it in to Apple. Happy ending for me as I walked out with a brand new MBP however.
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Gotta love AppleCare!
Have an Apple notebook? Get AppleCare!
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Amen to that. I love my MBPs but, I have had some kind of issue with everyone I have owned.
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Hi there,
Might be what happened to me a few months ago.
I had been living happily with my MacBook Pro for about 2 years (interesting coincidence: does this verify a programmed life span?) and Boom… as if I had no battery left, though I was plugged in… Black screen, starting up noise the first couple of times then lifeless.
Now, a major detail, have you experienced trouble with your battery?
Mine was basically slowly dying the previous few months: overused it probably (I rarely took it out even while being plugged in… silly I guess). Anyway, as a last hope I took the battery out, pressed ON and my Mac was reborn!!!
Hope this is your case. Let me know.
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I took it to the Apple Store, and they sent it off to the repair shop, they suspect a bad chip or two. It’s gonna be about $310 to fix it.
Have a wonderful day.
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I’m on my third motherboard on my not even 2 year old MBP…everything under warranty so far but I’m on my own next time
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Hi Chris,
Don’t worry about.
There is an Apple program to replace the Graphic cards of some 2007 MBP. ven with warranty over:https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
They just replace it for me last week in Bangkok.
Cheers,
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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Hey Rafael,
Well, mine was out of warantee, I’ve already forked over 310 bucks.
Have a wonderful day.
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Rafael is saying it should be covered even if it is out of warranty as this was labeled as bad h/w. Here is the Apple notice. There are many discussions of this issue on Apple’s support forums.
-gl
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