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Just a quick note of the issues I’ve had today on my macbook pro, and this may be some help to others.

Today while watching some media, the screen just went all glitchy, and wouldnt respond, the beach ball of death occasionally whirring.

Restarted, mac worked fine, then about 10 mins later, same screen crash.

After that the damn thing wouldnt reboot past this messsage.ARGGH!!

I restarted the mac in verbose mode (holding down Command-V) and it stopped when it said

So yeah, whatever that means, apparently its the command that worked just before the graphics all start to load in boot up. So the problem is with the graphics.

I found this thread on the net, and followed the post by wolfiger to remove the graphics card extensions, however, while the mac seemed to work fine from now, it meant that i was unable to use the graphics card – or at least VDMX wouldn’t load! Which is no good if i need to do stuff like, I don’t know, visuals for new years at Phat.

I booted up the Apple Hardware Test (holding D when I had the install disk in) and it found an error with the Graphics card.

‘4VDC/1/40000003: VideoController’

Shit.

Apparently though, its (hopefully) a problem with the exact card I have, an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, around the exact time i bought it. (July 2007)

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

I’m taking it into Magnum Mac tomorrow, and will see how I go. Hopefully this can be dealt with swiftly and with no cost.

Will let you know how I get on.