Late 2011 Macbook Pro green pixels on the screen where dark colors should appear.
I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro I bought it new with 4 gb of ram. About 4 months ago i purchased 8 gb of pny ram for this model and upgraded the ram. I followed all of the safety precautions and discharged my static electricity before upgrading. It increased the speed of my mac and helps with certain tasks. About 2-3 weeks i notices my mac froze and strange green black and pink bars appeared on the screen so i hold the power button to shut it down and it solves the problem this will happen about once a month but otherwise my mac works perfect. Now about a month ago I powered my mac on and low and behold The screen was covered in green pixels. I tried rebooting twice and it didn't do anything then i let it sleep for about 5 mins opened my mac and the green pixels were gone. Now my mac is still usable and everything works its just sometimes like once in a while ill get a few pixels and closing and opening my mac fixes it. I was curious if this was related to one another or is my mac just starting to die....
I have been getting green pixels/boxes the last while...
I have noticed it after waking the machine from sleep. Not 100% sure if that is the only time it happens. It goes away after a few seconds, typically.
Any idea what is going on?
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How to set up and configure AirPort Express for AirPlay and iTunes
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iTunes 10- About playing music with AirPlay
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steve359 wrote:
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according to MacTracker database (http://mactracker.ca download application) optical drive interface supports
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Hard Drive Interface 6.0 Gbps Serial ATA (SATA)
Optical Drive Interface 6.0 Gbps Serial ATA (SATA)
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