macbook pro core i7 high res anti-glare screen garbled graphics

Mine is doing the same thing (the exact same garbled display), but it more often does it in DVD Player than Safari, and sometimes when Safari is not even running at all, so I don't think Safari is the cause. It also sometimes gives me the dark gray screen of death instructing me to power off the computer when playing DVDs, and the frequency of this issue seems to be increasing with time (though it could just be I'm watching more DVDs lately).

Another thing I've noticed - today when I was using Safari, I was getting garbles in the preview windows for the Safari Top Sites - not that the whole screen was garbled, and not even all of the preview windows, only some of them! Maybe corrupted video memory?

Since Friday I dont have this issues, as I Stopped using Safari. I know it is not a solution, but....

Before, the garbled graphics showed in this specific situations: ( Its important to note, only when I m running Intel GPU.

- First time happened in Safari Top Sites, (only a "corrupted window" as descrived above.
- While refreshing or opening a page, while reloading.
- With time it was getting worse;
- When composing a Mail in Gmail or Google Apps ( The worse Garbled Graphic i ve ever seen)
- In finder folders in Coverflow.
- In a Twitter "App" made with Fluid.
- In Imagens of the Garbled Graphics taken with Print Screen. ( The image turned crazy, never the same when opened)

So I ve stopped using safari. Its okay now.. but i am sure If i keep using it will eventually go back.

When I had talked with them last week this was the first time they had ever heard of this problem.

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Try going to System Prefs>Energy Saver and turning off Automatic Graphic Switching. I've had this same problems and, taking advice from Genius Bar, turned this off. Seems to work (so far). Another thread discusses this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2566276&messageID=12350542#123 50542

Didan, that is not a fix, just a band-aide....

Apple needs a software fix! Although, I just saw the class action law suit on video cards in 2007-2008 MBP...makes you wonder. I truly think this is a software issue though.

For those that have contacted Apple, have you received any responses?

That's correct; it's not a true fix. The Genius Bar guy told me Apple needs a firmware fix and reporting incidents like this will help get them to do it. Til then, it's true: It forces you to shut off a feature that should work.

At the same time, knowing that turning off the auto switching keeps the mosaic from appearing can save a lot of people a lot of aggravation (and restarting). I know I'm glad to have this info at this point (and I can't say my MBP has suffered in performance since I turned this off).

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I have been having a similar problem. It started with Safari preview windows but it began to spread. I had an XCode window open and that became garbled in the same way. I could use expose and look at other windows but the XCode window stayed garbled.

All the problems went away when I switched to the nVidia card. I was using gfxCardStatus to keep the intel card selected because I can get around 7 hours battery using that versus the 3 hours I get with the nVidia card enabled.

I am going to run the Apple Hardware test to make sure it is not my RAM or something like that.

I also got one grey screen of death yesterday. I'm not sure what caused it but I have a feeling it could have been something with the graphics switching.

What I see seems to start in mail, when I delete something, there is a momentary scratchy line section and then all is back to normal. Can't make it happen and it clears up just as quick. I have tried to to a quicktime screen recording, but it never happens while doing that.

Question:
When you toggle the graphics switching, which card in is use:
Mine has:
Intel HD Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

add me to the list. only when it's happened to me (twice now), i've had a full-on kernel panic requiring a hard reboot. i was worried it was a motherboard issue.

Mine's done the kernel panic repeatedly in this situation, happened at least half a dozen times...

I have the same problem.. APPLE NEEDS TO FIX THIS

Having the same problem with garbled graphics. Happens only when using the Intel card, when switching to Nvidia everything seems fine.

Usually random parts of web pages in Safari are garbled, or video played in QuickTime X. This morning part of my garbled Safari window appeared on my desktop. Safari version is 5.0.2.

Also frequently getting the following example errors in Console.app:
com.apple.WebKit.PluginAgent[196] mbp.lan WebKitPluginHost[6498] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid context
[0x0-0xd00d].com.apple.Safari[191] mbp.lan Safari[191] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid drawable
WebKitPluginHost[9050] unknown error code: invalid context
Finder[320] unknown error code: invalid drawable
QuickTimePlayer[4627] unknown error code: invalid drawable
kernel The graphics driver has detected a corruption in its command stream

Didn't always happen. Seems to have started since I upgraded my Flash plugin. Current version 10.1 r85.

Restarts don't seem to fix the problem.

Havent had a chance to call the help desk (not that I believe it would help based on previous experiences).

N.B. also posted in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12397198&#12397198

I had the same issue with my i7 anti-glare with garbled graphics and also with kernel panics related to the Webkitpluginhost issue.

The Garbled Graphics happened on Safari and Firefox also.

I contacted Apple, did all hardware tests with no errors found. Got first level support, second level and now Engineering Support.

Provided the kernel panics messages that i've been collected so far and provide a screenshot from the garbled graphics.

This is the solution that they just gave me: "I have received recommendation that it be arranged to have the Main Logic Board replaced on your MacBook Pro to resolve the WebKitPluginHost related Kernel Panics issue."

Maybe it will fix Webkitpluginhost panics and also the screen garbled graphics issue.

I'll keep you udpated.