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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:15 PM
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The apple Blue Screen of Death. Thanks Nvidia (not a repost)

this is what i opened my eyes to a couple of minutes ago while i was trying to get my late-night fix of Azine <--this should be turned into :mac:


so i moved the mouse and tried to go to one of my hot corners and this happened


glad to see my MBP has the same video card that the NES had.
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:17 PM
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wtf?
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by mltk53
wtf?
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...ghlight=nvidia
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:36 PM
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should i call apple? i mean whatt would they do?
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:36 PM
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so if you restart after letting it cool down, what happens? Have you tried connecting an external monitor?
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:39 PM
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holy crap. Nvidia is going down so bad because of this shit...
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:43 PM
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when i connect a secondary monitor it automagically calibrates both screens to mirror, i get balck bars on top and bottom of the MBP screen and the other screen is full res, but blurry as dog shit in water.

when i restarted it went away but its still annacceptable.
its choppy when im watching videos (i edit videos so this blows)
and when im making music in logic and i open the sample editor while the song is playing the song stops playing because the display lags and slows the whole mac down
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:44 PM
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oh oh oh. i got another one. the other day i could actually see the concentrated LED beams from under my screen with dark spots in between them like there wasnt enough power coming from them. i had to restart again
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 10:57 PM
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Call Apple! That sucks big time..
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 11:15 PM
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they are gunna make me send back my mac, i will lose all my data and they will send me the same broken ass laptop. i will wait till they come with a public fix or a recall
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Old Aug 17, 2008 | 11:40 PM
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go to the genius bar and make them fix it.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:33 AM
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Phee this may help temporarily. This is a program that should allow you to adjust the fan speeds of your MBP including the fan for the GPU.

http://www.derman.com/Download/Speci...anControl.html
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:41 AM
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they are gunna make me send back my mac, i will lose all my data and they will send me the same broken ass laptop. i will wait till they come with a public fix or a recall
Are you retarded?

back up your data and send in your computer if you need to.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 09:43 AM
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data backed up. im calling apple tonight
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 10:03 AM
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data backed up. im calling apple tonight

I guess you are not retarded...
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 11:07 AM
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lol..
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 11:54 AM
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Jupina for the win bro. I didnt even know they sold that outside of miami
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:46 PM
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mine does this every once in a while, i suppose i could try sending it back...

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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:57 PM
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looks liek we are onto something here
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by agranado
Jupina for the win bro. I didnt even know they sold that outside of miami
they dont! i just got back from miami and i stock piled it along with materva and ironbeer
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:13 PM
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This is why I LOVE Vista!!!!
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:25 PM
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you can fix a video card. you cant fix vista...
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:32 PM
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mine does this every once in a while, i suppose i could try sending it back...

Ok, I stared at it for a while and now I see the 3D dinosaur.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 02:17 PM
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Mac is the shit.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul_2007S
Mac is the shit.
this made me crack up laughing
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 03:14 PM
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
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its ok. i gotta respect my elders
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 03:33 PM
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by astro
mine does this every once in a while, i suppose i could try sending it back...

And you keep telling me to get a Mac


Nice Ferrari Hat though.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 03:53 PM
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mole freckle!
all love stoge. how was the birthfday?
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by phee
you can fix a video card. you cant fix vista...
Actually the complete opposite is true.

You can tweak Vista, making it run much faster and reliable than "stock", in other words running almost as well as XP, but thats another story.

Video cards when they don't work simply need to be replaced.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 04:32 PM
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 05:00 PM
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This Saturday morning I was leading a room of about 100 new students through joining their their laptops to our Windows domain. When I showed them the God-awful way Vista makes you switch between domain and local logins, one of the students blurted out "You know, what exactly is the point of Vista?"

Myself and the other IT folks in the room just started laughing.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by phee
all love stoge. how was the birthfday?





When I stare at that IMac screen, if I look "through" it and cross my eyes a bit, I see it, and I shit bricks...
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 05:41 PM
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Nice Ferrari Hat though.
it's signed by Massa
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020




When I stare at that IMac screen, if I look "through" it and cross my eyes a bit, I see it, and I shit bricks...
I dont see any imac screen...i see a 23" cinema display hooked up to a mbp though

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^ eh, my bad. Still off gassing tequila.
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 08:23 PM
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it's signed by Massa
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Jupina!
Yeah I got the black screen of death too and sent it in, I swear they better not make me pay.
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Old Oct 20, 2008 | 01:34 PM
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WTF is Jupina?!
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