2007 Macbook with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Repair

Hi, I have a 2007 Macbook A1226 MB896LL/A which is showing all the signs of the GPU problems common to this model. Is apple still repairing them free of charge? Laptop does not chime,the fans are running, nothing on display but you can hear the hard drive chattering, it sort of boots to the point where if you increase/decrease the volume it makes the usual clicking sound, the keyboard backlight comes on if you cover the sensors, it ejects a CD if you press the eject key.

Just take it to the Apple store and they run their NVIDIA diagnostic test, if it fails they will pull up your serial number and see if it's on the list to be replaced.  I have a early  2008 Macbook Pro and it had the tell tail signs of a failing Video card and they replaced the logic board at no cost to me.  Took it in on Thursday, got it back today (Sat), running like a champ.

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    I had searched the macbook pro forum, but not this one. It seems that the "screen tearing" issue has been talked about a lot, so I apologize for the repetitive nature of the post. I will say that I am fairly shocked that given how many people have clearly called applecare, no one there seems to have a clue that there is a problem with this video card. I have talked with at least 4 different people in the FCP specialty group, and not one had any clue what I was talking about... 3 of the 4 were fairly insistent that it was a video source issue on my side.
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