Red & Green vertical line on screen

Hi Leroy

Thanks for that

Its out of warranty & its a mighty long drive or train journey to the nearest apple store hence me working on it

Thank you Oglethorpe i will try that

I will take the screen off tomorrow & check the cabling

But for tonight i will try the AHT test

Thanks guys

OK next problem

They dont have the original installation disks that came with the MBP they do have a retail snow leopard installation disk which they used to upgrade to snow leopard

Guess what my next question is going to be how can i get AHT to run it doesnt appear to be on the retail disks

Can i use my lion or mountain lion recovery usb drive to run AHT?

Creating a recovery partition for lion is not a problem on a USB stick

OGLETHORPE

Just a thogh but would it work if i was to install a copy of Lion or even Mountain Lion on a caddied HD

Then booted the Mac from that drive via firewire or press D with it attachedvia firewire?

Hi OGLETHORPE

No it didnt work & it wont as you have to remove everything including firewire devices

Back to the drawing board or a long old day out to visit an apple store all to do a diagnostic 😢😕

Hi guys

bit of an update but now a bit of personal discovery

I replaced the LCD on the Macbook Pro which fixed the lines issue so that is now back with a happy customer.

But i want to look at this AHT a bit more & i'm wondering if there could be any way to create a disk/usb that carries the AHT for older Macs

Whilst digging around the interweb i found this

http://rivenbyfive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/download-and-run-apple-hardware-test.h tml

None of this is complicated exept for one thing maybe i just cant see the wood for the trees but they are identifying Macs with a code beggining with F ie: F22788C8

Where or how do i find this on a Mac i have never had to identify a Mac with any code beggining with F

Thanks

order the replacement DVD's that shipped with that machine.

Hi Leroy

So what your saying is everytime i get a customer wanting a repair who doesnt have the original installation disks i have to order them?

a lot of my clients still have older macbook & macbook pro's & a lot of them were given them as company machines so the original instalation disks will definatly not be around

Up till now it has just been HD replacements or RAM upgrades so have not really had to use any form of diagnostics

If i had access to the original installers i would have done it & as stated i am not located near an Apple retail store to take advantage of the genius bar

I dont see why its an issue to get hold of a diagnostic tool for Mac machines whether its the Apple AHT or a 3rd party app