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Over the last 2 weeks, my MBP would crash (mostly during playing games). At first, I could just restart it and after a few restart it would be fine. But yesterday it crashed again after I managed to restart it (after another crash). But now it won't start up.
At start up, I would get the grey screen with Apple logo and then after 30 seconds or so, the grey screen gets distorted and generally the graphics are all messed up (and crash). I have tried booting up from Leopard CD, but it gets to a certain part and I get the Mac crash screen where it says the Mac has crashed and I need to restart.
Before it got to this stage, I have managed to restart it and after a restart, I got a noticed saying my Mac has crash and would I like to send report to Apple. So I did (3 times) and below is the error I got.
Fri Feb 6 22:56:59 2009
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00405DEB): "NVRM: Read Error: GPU 0, PCI 0x00000100, BAR0 0x92000000 0x3a0e2000"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.9.59/iokit/Kernel/IOLib.cpp:724
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x39cb7548 : 0x12b4f3 (0x45b13c 0x39cb757c 0x1335e4 0x0)
0x39cb7598 : 0x405deb (0x49da40 0xda3280 0x39cb75dc 0x39cb75cc)
0x39cb75b8 : 0xb744f7 (0xda3280 0xda3280 0xd67c88 0x0)
0x39cb75f8 : 0xe2bd1a (0x4d73404 0x4d78804 0x100b80 0xbb356a)
0x39cb7638 : 0xe10feb (0x4d78804 0x100b80 0x0 0x0)
0x39cb7688 : 0xddb6ef (0x4d78804 0x4d8f804 0x39cb77b8 0x0)
0x39cb77f8 : 0xe44d16 (0x4d78804 0x4b7c004 0x0 0x1)
0x39cb7878 : 0xe1bd79 (0x4d78804 0x4bbc604 0x40 0x3e8)
0x39cb7998 : 0xcd6a00 (0x4d78804 0x4eeb804 0x39cb7a88 0x39cb7a88)
0x39cb7ab8 : 0xcd66c2 (0x4d78804 0x4ef4804 0x0 0x0)
0x39cb7b38 : 0xe14392 (0x4d78804 0x4ef4804 0x6 0x2)
0x39cb7bb8 : 0xe1517e (0x4d78804 0x4eeb804 0x1000 0x39cb7cdc)
0x39cb7d38 : 0xe46320 (0x4d78804 0x4eeb804 0x0 0x0)
0x39cb7e88 : 0xcca16f (0x4d78804 0x4bbc604 0x0 0x0)
0x39cb7ed8 : 0xb749b6 (0x4d78804 0x4bbc604 0x0 0x0)
0x39cb7f18 : 0x4224ff (0x0 0x4fb1c80 0x1 0x19eb5b)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(5.3.6)@0xdb8000->0x100cfff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(5.3.6)@0xb5b000
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.3.6)@0xb5b000->0xdb7fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.7.1)@0xb4d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.5)@0x5d2000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.7.1)@0xaee000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9G55
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
This sounds very much like this error http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 but in this doc, nothing was said about not being able to start up the MBP.
The thing is I really need to boot up one last time to get some files off there, is there anyway I could boot up one last time? As I said before it won't boot up from HDD, not from CD, I tried booting up from external HDD but that system is 10.4 so it didn't show up.
Would appreciate any help so I can get these files off before I take it into repair!
Thanks

I just had a whole day of kernel panics and screen flicker (video flicker - not backlight) yesterday. I had stuck and incorrectly updated windows on the screen. Soon after that the machine crashed. A few reboots later the MacBook would freeze after a few minutes of use and then finally it would only boot into the dimmed screen of death or a stuck spinning wheel (even when booting form CD!!!). Inbetween, I managed to boot it from CD, but the machine crashed during disk check and finished the check (no errors) the third time!
I followed all instructions (5 secs power button while without battery and power) did NOT help.
I disconnected battery and power supply and let the MacBook sit for a few hours. That helped and magically the machine booted as if nothing happened.
I ran the loooong hardware test. Everything fine. I ran the disk check everything fine. I am clueless.
Today I had the same crash again, but at least everything was fine after a hard reboot. It even crashed the attached iPhone, which suddenly showed the Apple icon ?!? Hard to believe!
Remark: many of the crashes did not result in a kernel panic, but just froze the computer.
Kernel Panic Backtraces:
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.4.4)@0xb6d000->0xdcbfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.7.3)@0xb5f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x5cd000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.7.3)@0xac6000
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.7.3)@0xb5f000->0xb6cfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x5cd000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.7.3)@0xac6000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.7.3)@0xac6000->0xae2fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x5cd000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9J61
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar 31 22:52:17 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386
========== (Booted from CD) ===============
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.1.6)@0x64308000->0x64534fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x54eb1000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x54efc000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x55146000
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x54eb1000->0x54ebefff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x54efc000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x55146000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x55146000->0x55161fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x54efc000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9A581
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F42388C8)
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