Unobody 17" Macbook Pro 9600M broken gfx card?

Geez, I have received notifications for around 10 posts today full of skeptics troubleshooting this issue. This problem has been solved, there is no need to troubleshoot it. It was a firmware issue and has been resolved. For those of you considering buying one, if this was your only concern, it's fixed.

@ nadrojjordan:
It's quite cutting corners to say things like that. There are still things to overcome like the flickering issue i.e.
No... I'm holding back for a while longer just to be sure.

I understand, but that's why I said "if this was your only concern" 🙂

I stand corrected 🙂

Hey nadrojjordan, You are very much mistaken. Made a post yesterday or the day before and Big Brother removed the comments from the website. Same problem exists two day old MBP same issue with the screen, ie went black in 24hrs of use, but did you ever read the article in The Inquirer, Apple are a culpable accomplice to this, so should have equal compensation claim: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/670/1049670/nvidia-heat-causing-macbook s-to-fail.

Reply to
GroundZeroUK:

Unfortunately, geekbench or measures the speed of CPU, RAM(memory) + the HDD tests not the GPU. So this means that when you get the same overall score it does not have anything to do with measuring the clock speeds of your GPU if not at all of the GPU's speed.

Hey JTH007,

With all due respect, I suggest you do some research about The Inquirer. I have followed them for years and they dog every Nvidia product that is released, even good ones. They are notoriously anti-Nvidia, though I don't know why.

Read some other blogs like Engadget or Ars Technica. Here is one explanation from Ars about the previous problems that The Inquirer overstated:

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/07/nvidia-denies-rumors-of-mass-gpu-fa ilures.ars

Please don't drink The Inquirer's Kool-Aid. Apple will fix your problem and you will be fine. Mine has been fine, as has my 24" iMac with the 9400M and my previous MacBook with the 9400M. As have everyone elses' laptop on this thread after the fix.

Also, it just occurred to me that this thread is not even about your issue.

Are you talking about the problems with the 8600 series chips burning up and the screen going black? I think you got a fluke failure and just need to get it fixed, it will be fine. These new ones are solid as far as we know, other than the artifacting problems at first that are now fixed.

My 15" MBP was manufactured in week 8 of 2009. The revisions of the video chips are:


NVIDIA GeForce 9400M: Revision ID: 0x00b1

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT: Revision ID: 0x00a1

If some people would post the revisions of their chips, I would be interested to see if there is a later version than mine. According to one article, there are newer version of these chips.

Thanks!

So, I guess we can say: "case closed" 'cause there aren't anymore new posts/replies of people having issues, especially the screen phenomenons, with the new UMBP17"

Indeed. Thanks to any Apple workers reading this who troubleshot and fixed the issue, great job!

indeed..but I never had display issues but did notice an awful tink pop noices every 5 to 10 seconds comming from the HD desided to take it to the apple store. At first at hearing it the apple genuis tech offered to change the HD then another Apple genuis guy walked over with my notebook and said no replace the whole thing. The tech working with me said "what?" the higher up genuis guy then he mumbles under his breath to him "replace it cause there is artical on it". I later asked the tech what's the point of replacing the whole thing. He stated that Apple enginers what to get to their hands on it for investigation...

My thought is that this is bigger than just a display issue!


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Hmmm odd, but what should be a HD-issue??? I can't think of anything actually but a plain HD failure.
The sound you describe is usually a defective read/write head which has positioning/initializing problems. HD failures are pretty common in the hardware world but never has been a real issue in products made by Apple. Or is there something wrong with the motherboard instead like S-ATA connector defects, southbridge, etc. I don't know but everything is possible....

Any news about your HD yet???

And are there new details about the firmware fix?
Anyone noticed performance differences after installing this firmware?
Anyone recently bought the UMBP17 and checked the nvidia revision#?

I wonder if there is something going on at Apple 'cause the shipment period is changing from 24 hrs to a few (2-3) days and than back again to 24hrs. For the Dutch Online Store that is and only for the 15" UMBP. For the 17" UMBP it is still 3 days (for weeks now). On the US Online Store the three UMBP models are still available within 24hrs...