Issue with Macbook Pro Screen.

[mb72378]

I have no clue as to whats going on...Maybe someone else here might have an idea or has seen this before.

All of a sudden today my Macbook Pro screen is screwing up. It happens intermittently..sometime right after start up sometimes a minute or two later. Doesnt matter if Im doing something or its just sitting there. When it happens the only thing you can do is hard reboot the computer. The mouse still moves on the screen for a bit but wont interact with anything. Eventually the spinning wheel of death comes up. Whats going on? Only about a year and a half old!!!!!!!! Any ideas?

Here's what its doing. Sometimes I get tons of horizontal lines through the screen too.

Heres a shot I took with my camera.

 

[Batutta]

Try putting in different RAM to see if that fixes it. If not, probably your graphics chip going bad in which case you'll have to take it in to get repaired. Hopefully you're still under warranty or AppleCare. The graphics chip in my previous MacBook Pro went bad just out of warranty, and it was displaying similar symptoms. I think Macbook Pro's are great machines but in reality not designed to take the constant demands that video editing places on the processors, especially over a long period.

 

[mb72378]

Computer is 1 and a half years old so no longer under warranty. I have come to find out that there are a lot of problems with the graphics/logic boards in these laptops and apple isnt doing anything about it. So pissed. $2000 computer done...in 1 and a half years.