Failed display on 17" MBP in the UK

I have a MBP 17" which has a failed display. I'm aware of the failure problems others are having but can some tell me the full name of the cards on the 17" model that are failing so I can look them up? In case it matters I have the 17" 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 Gb RAM, 256Mb grahics card, 160 Gb HDD.
Cheers
Ian (UK)

Is this the same as "GeForce 8600M GT" ? I noted you said 256, does that mean my 512 is not affected?
GeForce 8600M GT:
Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3212
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Depth: 32-Bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Built-In: Yes
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected

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Hello!
I recently bought a BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" LED Monitor and I have encountered some problems when trying to connect it to my MBP via the Mini DisplayPort to DVI-adapter.
My MBP (spring 2010) won't find the display but when I try to connect the display to my brothers MB (spring 2009) it works immediatley and it finds the display in no time.
Is there any differences between the Mini DisplayPort on older an newer models of MB?
Have anyone out there encountered the same problem? Anyone got any suggestion on how i can make it work?
Thanks!

When I have to re boot to get a screen that I can see, it gives me a error report, but unfortunately I don't have a apple store anywhere close by, otherwise I would just drop off and see how screwed I would be, since I have no apple warranty nor apple care ;-( !

Cinema Display 30" and MBP - No Picture

I have a 2.16 Core Duo Macbook Pro 17". Today I purchased a 30" Cinema Display at the Apple store.
Because of issues I had heard about I had the Apple employees help me open the box and plug in the monitor to a Macbook Pro on the floor to check for dead and hot pixels and other screen problems. None found. I was so psyched!
I get it home and set it up. I run the DVI cable over to my Macbook Pro and nothing... The MBP screen goes blue and then refreshes when the monitor is attached or detached like it detects it, but under system profiler it never registers an additional display (and I did refresh the info). The soft power button on the Cinema Display triggers my computer to give me the shut down/sleep dialog so something is registering.
Basically everything works on the display but the picture. I just get a black screen. I hooked up my wife's G4 1.67 and it drives the screen just fine with a picture.
Any thoughts?

I have owned a MacBook Pro (15" / 2.16GHz / 2GB) and 30" Cinema HD Display since September 2006.
The display's DVI, USB, and FireWire cables are all connected to the MacBook Pro. A keyboard (with mouse) and iPod dock are connected to the display's USB ports, and two LaCie D2 drives are connected to the display's FireWire ports.
The display has remained blank at start-up on two occasions, both since upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5, though that may be coincidental. In any event, unplugging the display's USB cable from the MacBook Pro had the effect of waking the display; plugging the display's USB cable back into the MacBook Pro put the display to sleep.
Try disconnecting the USB and FireWire cables from the MacBook Pro and unplugging any peripherals attached to the display. I found that everything worked fine when reconnected.

I got some hair spray on my new retina display screen. What is the best way to remove.

I got some hair spray on my new Mac Book Pro Retina Display. Any thoughts on the best way to remove?

I would use this. I use it on my MBPs and it does an excellent job. I cannot say with authority that it will remove your hair spay residue.
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Scrambled display video on MBP with NVIDIA GT 300 card

Hi; I'm posting this on the MBP discussion group (mistakenly posted it on the MacBook group; thanks to frederic1943 for pointing this out) was wondering if anyone was having this same problem. I have a 15-inch MBP with i7 processor (I believe it is mid-2010), running Mac OS X 10.6.7, that has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics card in addition to the Intel graphics card. I have upgraded the physical RAM to the maximum 8GB.
I have recently been experiencing a problem in using Firefox 4.0.1 in which one or both of 2 things happens: 1) when I open a new window or tab in Firefox, the window is totally black; and/or 2) the display becomes scrambled and I can no longer make out the outlines of windows in Firefox. Sometimes a black page will open normally if I refresh the screen with cmd-R (sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries), and sometimes the scrambled screen will return to normal appearance if I click on the Menu bar and slide the cursor left and right; sometimes I can then grab a window handle and "wipe" the screen clear of the scrambled video so it is readable again.
I will admit that I have had quite a few windows open in Firefox when this has happened, so I suspect I may be stressing the video RAM. However, I wanted to see there are other explanations for this problem.
I have read about similar-sounding problems with earlier MBPs using the 8600 graphics card, but not with the one I have. I also saw some posts about similar-sounding problems with Safari that did not occur with Firefox; however, I'm having the problem in Firefox. I haven't tried Safari to see if I would have the same problem. I've run TechTool which did not find any problems, and also ran the Cron scripts (all 3) using Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, but am still having the problem. I have over 800MB of system RAM free (although I realize it may be the video RAM that is limiting here). I
Any ideas or similar experiences? Any feedback (other than closing some windows, which I have been doing, and am still having the problem) would be most helpful.
Thanks, - Klingon725

having too many tabs open isnt the issue here, i would love to answer you, but i work for AMD, so i rarely get in touch with nvidia gpus but u should try booting in safe mdoe first, and running the apple hardware test will be a good idea

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