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Unobody 17" Macbook Pro 9600M broken gfx card?

Has anyone else been getting some pretty bad issues with the graphics card in the new unibody 17" machines? I have been getting some pretty bad green lines down everything when I use the more powerful GFX card.

This machine is brand new.. the lines do seem to get worse as the card heats up...take a look..

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17" unobody Macbook Pro 2.93, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 1, 2009 10:19 AM

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Mar 1, 2009 10:44 AM in response to Christian Siebenherz

I am disgusted with the quality of these laptops. The irony is that the new laptop was meant to be a replacement for a replacement Macbook Pro that has a terrible trackpad and loads of other problems.
I really hope this is a firmware issue..
It seems to disappear for a short while if the SMC is reset.. but literally for only 10 mins or so..

Mar 1, 2009 10:50 AM in response to forcefedmedia

It *****, yeah.

I hope I don't have to send it in, especially because I love everything else about this machine. Battery life is actually 8 hours, which I never expected, the matte screen is gorgeous and the computer is extremely fast. I think I'll just be running the 9400 card for the time being, untill somebody figures out what this problem really is. Wishing for that firmware fix ..,

Mar 1, 2009 12:50 PM in response to david sampson

It's not the point what application I am using. The card seems to be bust. I didnt have Motion or FCP open at the time because I was backing up my aperture library to my server if you REALLY need to know, it was just a part of the screen that I shot because it was easy to see through the moire of the LCD.

The POINT IS that it seems that there's lots of people with either duff GFX cards OR bad firmware.

Mar 1, 2009 2:49 PM in response to forcefedmedia

I errantly posted a similar thread, not aware of this problem. I received a call from Apple support several hours after posting the thread, providing me with information on how to return my laptop for a replacement. Not what I wanted to do, ...but excellent support/service in my book.
I have 5 MacBook Pro's, and this is the only one to have an issue. By and large, they are incredible machines.

JTH

Mar 1, 2009 2:54 PM in response to jeffrey t Hall

Possibly but I had FOUR macbook pros of the previous incarnation, and this is why they allowed me a replacement with the unibody.. now i have more problems that others seem to be having.. I wonder how long it will be before they determine if this is a hardware fault.. or it can be sorted with firmware?

I cant believe that SO many people have the same issues, surely there can't be so much bad graphic card hardware out there?

Mar 1, 2009 2:59 PM in response to eww

well i tink that there's clearly a much wider issue seeing as though my case is not isolated.. there's a whole bunch of people out there with the same problem, so I really feel that unless we're all very very unlucky its odd that there's SO many broken GFX chips out there.

I am hoping that this can be a firmware/OS fix because I am happy with the screen etc, so I really dont want to wait another 2 weeks for my CTO to arrive.

I depend on my machine for work.

Unobody 17" Macbook Pro 9600M broken gfx card?

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