Graphics card crash - MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Hi,
Yesterday I was playing Age of Empires III for Mac, and at the start of a Skirmish mission, where there wasn't much going on yet, the game seized, and then after a while the screen started flickering to black in these big horizontal chunks... I was unable to quit, restart, force quit, nothing.
Pretty much the whole bottom of the screen went black, while a middle part was flashing on and off.
I'm afraid there might be something wrong with my graphics card.
Here's the crash report after I force-shutdown my MBP, and started it again:
Also, the MacBook Pro is only a few months old and there seems to be other problems:
1. There's dust under the glass of my screen!
2. When I try to put a CD in, it gets caught on some stuff, and I have to jimmy it around to get it inside
3. The bottom of the laptop creeks really loud when it's on my lap (which isn't often, but still, worrying and not very Apple-ish noise every time I handle it), the case moves, etc.
What should I do? I've had laptops repaired in the Apple Store a few times before, and they always ended up coming up worse than they went in. New problems, etc.
Hi
The dust & cd & creaking won't get better, regrettably - so back it would go, for me anyway - unless you really feel it'll be made worse.
Later mbp's have an auto graphic switching setting in System Prefs-Energy Saver - try switching that off -
assuming the crashes are repeatable.
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Graphics card crash - MacBook Pro - AOE3
Hi,
Yesterday I was playing Age of Empires III for Mac, and at the start of a Skirmish mission, where there wasn't much going on yet, the game seized, and then after a while the screen started flickering to black in these big horizontal chunks... I was unable to quit, restart, force quit, nothing.
Pretty much the whole bottom of the screen went black, while a middle part was flashing on and off.
I'm afraid there might be something wrong with my graphics card.
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My niece did this, and the turnaround was really fast. She sent hers off on a Tuesday evening, and got it back the following Thursday morning. From what I hear, the repair depot is really good.
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