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#51 2008-12-30 7:09 am
- knobtwirler
- Anthropocentric Temporal Chauvinist
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Re: Apple Acknowledges Video Problems in New MacBooks
Fishy post alert.
If you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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#52 2008-12-30 9:16 am
Re: Apple Acknowledges Video Problems in New MacBooks
The hard drive was never soldered and the wiring harnesses are not a item that tends to heat up. even if the harnesses were to become desoldered or disconnected the only the data being written during the time of failure will be corrupted. As long as it wasn't the boot sector you find a vast majority of your HD recoverable.
They will replace or repair depending on the nature and extent of the issue.
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#53 2008-12-31 9:49 am
- Booksley
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Re: Apple Acknowledges Video Problems in New MacBooks
tinoamor wrote:
Mine fried today. Wasn't gaming, just watching joost and youtube. I believe de-soldering occured when the screen went blank and a thin line of snow was streaking across top of screen...
two questions:
1) could hard drive de-soldered as well and can I retrieve data
and
2) I have the applecare protection, will they replace?
I will call tomorrow or the next day if I have time, anyone have experience with getting the unit replaced?
Thanks to this Board and our Community
Tino
MacBook Pro Fall 2008 release, 15 inch
Your hard drive will be fine. You'll need to make a back-up of it because I don't think Apple makes back-ups for you. Just ask the Applecare rep. If you used Time Machine, then you won't have to worry about backing up.
Apple will probably cover the repairs to your Macbook Pro, just tell the representative that your screen is not displaying anything. Unless you dropped it or something.
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#54 2008-12-31 2:57 pm
- avkills
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Re: Apple Acknowledges Video Problems in New MacBooks
Apple has said that they will repair them for free; on faulty nVidia hardware.
-mark
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#55 2009-01-05 11:49 pm
Re: Apple Acknowledges Video Problems in New MacBooks
avkills wrote:
Yup that does not look so good. I'm been shying away from the notion of work getting new MacBook Pros for some of us because of this.
Hopefully the 8800s in the MacPros do not have this problem, but they probably do.
The G92 in the Mac Pro 8800GT desktop card has not been known to have these problems. G94 and G96 cores are the problematic ones, especially in the hot confines of laptops and iMacs.
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