24" LED Display with 2011 15" MPB

Ok, it has been awhile now... no answer? Time for me to call AppleCare?

BZ

Please do. And let us know what they say.

I will add that I haven't seen the flickering in Windows 7 on my MBP 2011. I see it in OS X about once or twice an hour.

And another one logging in........

2011 15.4" MBP Base 2.0GHz.... ACD 24" LED......

Never happened with 2010 mini......

Black for 1/2 second ~5 to 10X per day..... totally random as far as I can see.....

Message was edited by: leesilberkleit

Am i the only still having blackouts despite the 10.6.7 update? no more graphical glitches but definitely still getting blackouts.

You're not alone. I just noticed the first blackout since installing 10.6.7 at about 40 minutes after boot. The only apps I had open were Mail, Safari and iTunes (nothing playing). I haven't noticed any graphical glitches (yet), though.

And... I just noticed a graphical glitch at 59 minutes since last boot. Bummer.

Message was edited by: Kyle O'Bannon

Yup. Just as i feared. The first rushed update rarely fixes the problem when it comes to Apple.

2011 MBP 15 base model...... 10.6.7

Still has blackout for 1/2 second then back to normal......
Happened when going to macrumours forum, Mail, Safari, Itunes open.......

Rats..........

Same problem here, 2011 MBP 17-inch w/ 8 MB Ram. 24 inch Cinema Display flickers heavily when plugged into the MBP.

Installed 10.6.7. I'm still getting an occasional digital flicker, but seems to be less. I haven't seen any blackouts yet.

streitz wrote:
Installed 10.6.7. I'm still getting an occasional digital flicker, but seems to be less. I haven't seen any blackouts yet.

Maybe the occasional flicker is now related to the (possibly independent) problem reported here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2669791
?

So, after a few hours of running 10.6.7 the blackouts are back... Same problem as before...

Updated to 10.6.7 last night (Central Europe), and worked fine for hours (as it sometimes did before), and then today, up until just now (noon): flickering and blackouts just as before, on a 24 inch ACD that worked fine with MBP's prior to Early 2011 MBP's.

Edit: I did reset PRAM after the update and before hooking the laptop up to my 24 inch ACD

Edit 2: I notice this other very strange behaviour, ONLY on days when I've been having these glitches and blackouts. In Safari (5.0.4), when I'm on a website, and click on the bookmarks icon, and whatever is highlighted in the navigation column of bookmarks doesn't have anything in it, so that the cover flow section is supposed to be empty, this "empty" field does not refresh into the black it's supposed to be, but stays on the website as it is. Anyone else have this when they try?

At first after updating, I wasn't able to duplicate the problem, and now, just when glitches and blackouts started again, I'm easily able to duplicate it. See here:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2893/safariproblem.png

Thanks for the link. I'm pretty sure that's not me though. I should have said jitter, not flicker. I have the issue of 1 second blackouts and a digital looking jitter that quickly shifts the external monitor's content to the left or right for a split second. My Apple 24" display worked just fine on my last unibody MBP, but the newest one with the thunderbolt port seems to have issues with my apple display. The display is perfect when hooked up to my other macs. Thanks for the post, it really helped to read that other thread though.

I can confirm this is still happening after 10.6.7!
I should say it happens a lot less often. For me it was constant blackouts, like 5 in a row every 20 min, and it would cause the fan on my display to go extremely fast for a second; and now its much less, like one every hour. I will call Apple Care to make sure they know the issue is still present. At least or me it did get a little better; but it is by no means solved!