Corrupt display on 15" unibody macbook pro

slickback · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:53

Purchased my macbook pro back in december 2008, noticed today the corrupt display issue, it lasted for about 10 seconds and it's happened twice today, battery was fully charged and running off AC.

Was using the on-board graphics.

geekyEd · 15 Mar 2009 at 17:10

corrupt how?

slickback · 15 Mar 2009 at 18:05

Anything that should have been white on the display turned pink and was flickering. It looked like the colours on a windows machine that doesn't have the correct graphics drivers installed so the display is running at 640 x 480 in 8bit colour mode or something.

It was reported by engadget which is where I first heard about this issue. http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/nvidias-geforce-9600m-causing-issues-in-17-inch-macbook-pro/

geekyEd · 15 Mar 2009 at 18:56

nasty! you tried switching between graphics cards?

if it keeps doing it send it back.

slickback · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:08

Since owning the macbook pro I use it everyday for at least 8 hours, have it set to the 9400M, last month I created 5 60min dvd's using a panasonic hd camcorder, imovie and idvd so I had set the macbook pro to use the 9600M, it got hot but never noticed any issues.

I set the macbook pro back to the 9400M and it was fine until today, the macbook pro wasn't even hot when I had the issue.

geekyEd · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:45

Myself said:
if it keeps doing it send it back.

Feek · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:47

I'd definitely be getting that looked at by a professional.

v0n · 16 Mar 2009 at 00:23

Was it after playing quick time? Pink squares stuck "on top" after too many overlapping layers/quick time windows or semi transparent terminals on top of video windows happens on macs ever since i can remember, all the way back to G3. Usually killing quick time process and opening something like VLC full screen helps.

Edit, just looked at the endgadget pic, wow, looks like laptops will have another shot nvidia chipset on their hands (who can forget the 8600m fiasco)

slickback · 16 Mar 2009 at 09:59

I was browsing overclockers forums at the time it happend, no other app was running, I could tell something was not right and when I minimised firefox I thought what the ****. My desktop wallpaper is 70% white so the whole screen was this corrupt pink.

I've got 3 years warranty so not to worry.