Comments on: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

By: MacDavid

MacDavid — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:00:45 +0000

Wowza! This story is slowly but surely gaining traction among a
number of people. Thanks for commenting and sharing!

-David

P.S. I'm glad you got a positive result from this experience.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:54:51 +0000

Ditto here. Just last night… I didn't even shut down, I just closed it to get some grub. 20 minutes later, upon opening it back up… I got the infamous M.B.S.D. (The Mac Black Screen of Death. I ran the drill, shut down, reboot, take the battery out for 10 seconds… nada. After a visit to the Genius Bar, like you I was happy it was a relatively cheap fix…Free. Just inconvenienced with the 5-7 day turnaround. The have to ship it off site

By: MacDavid

MacDavid — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:07:25 +0000

About the Time Machine. Yes! It's a worthwhile investment. Not only does it regularly back up your Mac, it allows you to literally go back in time and select files from previous backups that you may have since deleted or modified. When ever you may have the moolah to spend on it, I would highly recommend it.

Thanks so much for your feedback on this. I was wondering if there were more people out there with the same issue, and now I know. So I'm glad I could help!

-David

By: MacDavid

MacDavid — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:04:43 +0000

Same exact thing to the “t” indeed! In fact, It took approximately two weeks as of yesterday for ship off, repair, delay for parts, and ship back. I certainly hope it won't take that long for you because I was beginning to feel the hurt in my projects by the end of the first week of waiting. So I'm hoping for a speedy return of your Mac!

By: Aimee

Aimee — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:15:10 +0000

Edited to add: The genius also told me 5 days, which I think is their standard reply. (Overnight to the TX repair facility, 1-2 days diagnosis & repair, overnight back to MA.) It's now been 5 business days, but it looks like I need to settle in for a longer wait.

I did have them image my hard drive before they shipped it from the store. That $150 makes the $300 time machine look like a good investment. (But that ball is in my employer's court.) At least I'd backed up my base files, if not all of my links/packages, so I can work on a colleague's iMac on a few of my projects.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:09:37 +0000

Same problem, same model. Working late in CS3, shut down, then the next morning, without warning, no display on screen or external monitor. Sounds of life from within, so it had to be the graphics card. The guy at the genius bar told me that they couldn't just swap it out because it was integrated, so they would have to replace the entire motherboard. Mine was shipped out last Wednesday, and its status is also “waiting for part.”