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Hello,
I am a tech support guy, and web developer, at a higher ed University. Anyway, I just recently got a new MacBook Pro about 1.5 weeks ago. It was a 17 inch MacBook Pro, 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB drive.
Yesterday, for no reason it would not display any video. I could use ctrl+command power and hear the HD making noise but the video would not display. Every 10 minutes or so I would see a flicker and see my desktop picture for a half second. I did research on the apple support area and I ended up reinstalling the OS thinking it was a software issue... something about high CPU usage being the problem. I doubted that was the problem, but I took the hour to reinstall from the 2 DVDs. It worked during the boot from the CD, so I thought that maybe it was the software thing. After doing updates I tested it and it worked, I put it to sleep and put it away. I pulled it out tonight and it worked for an hour then I downloaded one of my old excel files from online and as I clicked on the excel file my screen, as best I can describe started to look like it was dithering... then it faded to black. It did the flickering for a few minutes, then just black... yet again, no video. I could restart and restart and try everything and all I would see is a flicker and a flash of video every few minutes.
At this point, what do I do? It was not even two weeks old and I do have AppleCare. I installed Parallels and VirtuaDesktops, Office and Adobe CS3 and pretty much everything else was normal software. None of that was running or open when all of this happened, besides maybe Office starting to launch.
I hate to send it back if it is just a software issue but I can't keep reinstalling the OS.

I will try. However, I am now seeing no video... not even after I reboot it and hear a chime and the hard drive spin... nothing. The screen is black but doesn't appear to be all of the way black. It is black but not the same as when the computer is off, there is a hint of a little light at the bottom of the display.
I wouldn't think that VirtuaDesktops would effect the computer that early in the restart, but I will try.
I deal with hundreds of Macs here at work and this is the first time I have seen something that has caused so much problems out of the gate.

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