display anomalies

So how do we get apples attention? Obviously you have posted your link to the MacBook Pro design flaws page you(?) have made. But other than that? Do we just keep posting to this thread to make it the longest apple thread ever? If thats what it takes i will do that no problem. Everyday i will post, as its about the only thing my machine can do now without having glitches and crashes.


I am also in Germany now (was UK). I have been told to stay away from Gravis, and use CMC?? or another one i forget the name of.


So even though i bought a so called 'refurbished' MacBookPro, i am being treated like a guinea pig, or a lab rat by apple because what they should have done was not sell a refurbished machine if they know that it had problems (shouldnt sell it in the first place if its defective) but selling a machine that is claimed to be refurbished and as good as new is surely miss-selling and misrepresenting a product to the consumer. I am tempted to bring the full weight of the consumer goods act down on apple for this as its no better than daylight robbery.

I agree with everyone else. Mine is getting worse day by day. My fans have stopped working so I have to replace them but this should be no different from the nvidia GPU Replacement program. I sent apple a feedback thread and I just hope that this problem gets addressed soon so I don't have to pay the big bucks to replace the whole board. I cant afford this, I thought paying $2000.00 I wouldn't have any hardware problems for a LONG time. 2 years apple! Come on. My car can go longer without mechanical problems and I paid the same price!

these freezes are ******* me off..

they don't make for a very professional work environment do they............

Apple really needs to take responsibility for this trash they created and get these motherboards fixed asap.

I dont get it, surely the sale of iPhones, iTouch, iPods and the % of the market apple now have in phones, and the market that used to be Sony's domain (personnel portable music players once known as walkmans). Not to mention the hike in laptop sales apple have benefitted from, surely would cover the cost replacing defective first generation machines and of keeping their more professional (and one would hope, more valued) customers happy when something like a design/manufacturing flaw in a first generation product that is known to have design issues fails, due to said design/manufacturing flaw.

They did it with the Nvidia cards, why are we ATI card users any different?????

just an addition, was it not Nvidia that admitted to faulty cards, therefore it was not an apple issue, so apple could have sued Nvidia. As this is not an issue caused by the ATI card, can we therefore assume that apple will never replace the logic board for free because the buck stops at apple, not ATI.....?

I am so happy I found this thread! I've been going nuts for months with this on my CD 2.0GHz MBP 1,1. Graphics glitches (strange lines and pixels) and then system freezes. I've done all the usual things (reset PMU & PRAM), have tested this with an external monitor and without, played with SMCFanControl settings, etc.

Virtually every time I have a freeze I receive a console message similar to this one:

2/22/09 2:28:37 PM kernel ATY_Wormy::powerStateWillChangeTo(0x433d400, ATY_Wormy, 2 -> 1) timed out after 45348 ms

Anyhow, it does sound like the ATI X1600 is at fault. Like many others I let my AppleCare slide (I never needed more than the first year on all 3 of my previous Macs) and now I'm facing the potential for a $800 repair. It sounds like this may well be a significant problem that Apple isn't fessing up to. Is there any way to address this with Apple, other than via these forums and the feedback link someone posted?

not that i know of... they're pretty homo.

Were so happy on the one hand that you found this thread also, as it adds another MBP with ATI x1600 Radeon card to the list of faulty MBP.'s with ATI x1600 Radeon cards. Not so happy on the other hand as i wouldnt wish such a profound and annoying hardware failure on anyone who bought an apple machine in the good faith that it was well built in the beginning.


Make sure you fill in a feedback form to apple at:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html

and keep coming back to this thread to air your disbelief that your apple MBP is so badly built that there would have been no steps you could have taken as a user to prevent the failure in hardware that is essentially a design flaw by apple.

Message was edited by: spagbol23

My MBP is going in to Apple for service for the same issues you are all having with your displays. Thanks to this thread and the others, I am very confident that my issue is also because of the ATI x1600 Radeon card in my MBP.

When I talked to the young man about sending my MBP in, I told him what I thought was wrong with it and that many people were having the same issue as I was and I did extensive research on these forums. I hope he mentions it to his supervisors that we are here dealing with a defective graphics card that is messing up our MBP.

Best of luck, hope you manage to have more impact than i did when i went to the Genius Bar with this problem.

Buy a new computer was the answer i got.

Hi you,

just for the report i am still here, i am still angry. Nice to see that there are more and more people passing by with that problem (sorry for you but nice for us). So what should we do next?

I bought a MacBookPro one of the most expensive machines on the market, let me compare it with a ferrari. I paid 1000€ more Money than for the same hardware build in a IBM machine. what i searched for was Quality not a fancy product. These products are at high quality but there is a (manufactured based) failure in it too, so as with my ferrari i want them to get it fixes for a fair value. (HOHO . . . i know its cheaper to get a new one, thanks apple genius nice try). Our experiences here showed me that there is no such thing as fair support for us.

For me i decided to *NEVER BY A MAC AGAIN*. As my position allows me i am not longer advise people to buy Apple Products as i did the years before (this will hurt apple much more than buying me a new board). I can only hope that you all learned from this case.

I am really sorry but now after this long time trying to achieve SOMETHING related to this problem i am at the end of my patience.

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IBM ACER DELL SONY HEWLETT and much more rules. . . nice hardware nice support, fair prices

regards