MacBook :: Need To Replace Screen Due To Faulty Bluetooth?
Sep 29, 2009
I have a Aluminum Macbook. It is under Apple care. I took it in today because the bluetooth kept loosing connection and then the Mac says no bluetooth hardware found. The Genius at the Apple Store said they need to replace the screen because the Bluetooth module "may" be behind the screen as it is not on the airport card anymore. Can anyone confirm, in the Aluminium Macbook (2008) where is the bluetooth receiver?
Had my iphone 3gs for around 4 months now, it recently stopped turning on for some reason. I've tried everything but when I woke up this morning to turn on my phone it just didn't start... it looks beat up around the edges, is missing the volume button on the side, and has a crack, HOWEVER it has no water damage. The only reason it's so beat up is because I skateboard and I keep my phone in my pocket and for some reason the plastic doesn't hold up too well... The sensor is 100% white though and its not really my fault it broke they just built it .I think they might replace this is if I go and complain about it not turning on and seeing if they can fix it, if they can't hopefully they will give me a new one.
Our non-unibody MBP is flickering bluish colors on the left half of the screen. It happens randomly, but frequently. It can be stopped by pulling the screen towards me slightly, enough to put tension on the hinge, but not actually moving it towards me. Is this an indication of the faulty GPU or the ribbon connecting the screen?
This is what my monitor looks like when on this screen saver.Not actually that red as I'm typing now though this screen saver really shows it up.url...
I have a G5 Imac and after 3 years, the bluetooth connection to a wireless keyboard and mouse constantly cuts in and out. (works for 3 minutes, then won't, then will, etc.)
I've tried the same mouse and keyboard with my macbook and they both work fine with no dropouts.
I've checked for any updates to airport and there are none.
I've tried searching here and at several other forums...I tried deleting some file people suggested and that didn't work....in short I've tried everything I could and nothing has worked.
The only think I can think of is that the bluetooth "controller" or whatever is the engine for the bluetooth in the Imac is just plain bad. The problem is that I don't know exactly what or where it is, or if it is even replaceable?
im new to this forum though i?ve been lurking around here without registering. but now it was time for my first question.i have a Macbook 13.3 with 2.4 Ghz intel core 2 duo, the white plastic one which was the last generation of this model before the unibody came i thinki was wondering which screen to buy for when i should replace it! a friend of mine was a bit unlucky on new years eve, and sat on my mac.... so my screen is now busted. when i look up the model a1181 it seems like its the right the one, but the specs i get for that model is 1.83 ghz- 2.0ghz
i have a 2.0 unibody macbook, and i have had it since november.. it had the washed out screen and slanted function keys, so the guy at the genius bar took one look, logged it and im getting a new screen and top case. i love the genius bar and apple support =]
Just sent in my 2-month MacBook Air which started squeaking in just a couple of weeks. Luckily still in warranty and they said they'll replace the whole screen clamshell for me for free.Certainly I wouldn't mind much since it's free, but is it absolutely necessary to replace the whole thing just to stop the hinge squeaking?
I have the last Aluminum 15" MBP model to come out right before the unibodies. I bought it the day the uni's came out to save some dough. Got the Applecare and all has been good until recently.Recently I have noticed some "stage lights" showing on my screen. It looks like a string of lights coming from the bottom of my screen and fading away the further up the screen they progress.
#1: My superdrive makes an incredible amount of noise lately. I'm not sure why it does that. It doesn't scratch any of the discs or anything, its just annoying. Should I get it fixed? #2: I have a glassy screen. I hate it sometimes. Is it possible to get the screen replaced with an anti-glare screen?
So i finally figured out what has been causing all of my kernel panics. Either the brackets or the notches that are holding the second ram stick in place have become faulty. The second ram stick permanently stays in the upright position, and if i do manage to get it parallel to everything, it can jump up at a moments notice if I do something with my computer. This is clearly a manufacturer's defect, but i dont have any warranty left. So i was wondering if any of you guys know where i can get a new ram slot since it doesnt seem to be like it is soldered to the logic board. I had 4gb, now im running on one 2gb stick, and basically the computer is nearly unusable in its current state.
Info: Unibody MacBook Pro '08, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.4 Core 2 Duo, 4gb ram, 250gb
i've been reading about these screen threads, that some of the new macbooks have faulty screens or display, it got me worried because i purchased a new 13" macbook pro ..how would i know if mine is faulty or not ?
I suspect my centre RAM slot (closest to HDD) is faulty or on its way out. Have been troubleshooting a problem and can only replicate it with this RAM slot occupied and the other empty. Error is flash video playback becoming juttery/sticking before continuing. Occasional kernel panic. Has anyone else had this problem before or experienced a dead RAM slot?
I am a recent convert to Apple products & have a macbook. The hard drive was upgraded with a 500gb drive. Having imported all my files from old pc it seemed to work fantastically well for approx 2 months, then it started to misbehave! It seems that I have a problem with the HD. I have removed the faulty HD and replaced with a spare. All of my data remains on the faulty HD. I have purchased a external drive caddie & have attemted to 'mount' the faulty drive to copy info back onto mac.
I bought a brand new MacBook Pro 17" from the Apple Store in Glasgow in June. Lately it's been giving me a lot of freezes and spinning beach balls. Since I just "cloned" my 2 year old iMac onto it when I got it (using Firewire), I guessed it just needed a clean up, as there was effectively 2 years worth of apps, stuff, etc, on there. As I have a full Time Machine backup, I thought I'd do an Erase & Install, formatting the drive first. I did this, and things didn't improve. The next thing I did was use Tech Tool to test the drive. It started off saying "4 hours remaining", but over the next few hours it found dozens of bad blocks, and the remaining time just kept increasing. I gave up and canceled the test at 66 bad blocks and 24 hours remaining and thought "the drive is goosed". I did some Googling and someone suggested actually formatting the drive and zero-filling it, to try write over the bad blocks. I got my Mac Install DVD, booted from it, and ran Disk Utility to erase the drive and do a 7-pass fill. I did this overight last night, took 12 hours on a 500GB drive, and today I reinstalled OS X completely cleanly, not from a Time Machine backup.
So now I have a totally "as new" factory-settings mid-2010 17" i5 MBP. I installed Tech Tool, ran the disk scan again, and it completed in 4 hours and found 22 bad blocks. Apple Store Glasgow have told me it'll be at least 7 days to get it fixed if it is indeed faulty, as they have a huge back log of work. It's also really awkward for me to get to the Apple Store, let alone twice (once for drop off, once for pick up). If I get Apple Care to do it via courier, I'll be without it even longer.
If that's what I have to do, fair enough, but before I do, does it seem to you guys like a faulty drive?
I have a WD 320gb portable hard drive which has been formatted as Journaled for about 3 months. Just yesterday i decided to format the 320gb hd as FAT32 as i heard that Mac disk utility is able to format this type in excess of the 32gb that windows is able too. This now allowed me to have the HD be read by Mac and windows with ease, or so i thought. So i did that, and copied all my data onto it and ever since it has been a bit patchy.. The drive is recognised instantly by windows computers and functions fine but when plugged into my macbook sometimes it will not display at all, other times it will take a long time to read, and in other cases it will function perfectly. When the drive refuses to be read by mac I checked disk utility and it shows that the HD is definately connected but just wont show up on my desktop.
Since day one, my laptop has been a little off. It would crash every once in a while for no reason, but it wasn't very often so I took no notice. Now it's just gotten worse with time and programs crash on a daily basis, and the entire laptop crashes on a weekly basis. I can't open a lot of programs, even ones that I have just downloaded right now for the first time. I gave it to the geniuses and they ran a few quick tests and said the OS and the ram seemed to be fine, so they wanted to keep it overnight to take another look. Two days later, they gave it back to me saying the ram is faulty. So I went home and reinstalled the original ram that came with it...but I still have the same problem. I'm wondering if the problem still could be the old ram and it just really messed up my laptop even though it's not in there anymore...?
Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Formerly had Corsair "Mac Memory"
I have heard that your firewire port can get fried by using certain faulty pieces of gear. It hasn't happened to me, but the thought kind of scares me. Does anyone know if there is a way of preventing this from happening? If it did, would AppleCare cover it?
To start my computer is a early 2008 Penryn MBP with the 2.4 C2D and a 256mb 8600M. Today I was trying to show something on google earth, but once the app started, I could not control the map, it would just freeze. Once I was able to zoom in, but it would not do anything, it would zoom in on pixelated junk. I tried reinstalling it, but no dice. I thought there may be something wrong with how the data is streaming, but it works fine on my hackintosh and my iphone. This got me thinking about the well-known faulty 8600m.
I have, on rare occasions, had some screwy issues with my display, like some pixelation and difficulty getting the display to work after sleeping, but these have been few and far between. I was curious if all this could be related to the GPU, and if there is anything I can do to test before going to the apple store and complaining how my google earth won't work (I am still covered under applecare). I don't game, so I have nothing of that sort to try out on it. I did download and run cinebench, and it gave me an open GL score of ~9.4fps.
Details: In short, with the power adapter plugged in, my MBP would still show as "Battery Not Charging". The light on the adapter would stay green and not change to orange. While it wouldn't recharge the battery, it did provide enough "juice" for the MBP to run off of.Some of the posts on this forum pointed to this being a faulty battery and to take it into the Apple store. In doing so, the helpful Genius diagnosed the problem as the Power Adapter being faulty, not the Battery.
Resolution: They provided me with a brand new power adapter right out of the box. In and out of the store within 15 mins.
I recently spilled a little bit of coffee on the corner of my MacBook. It didn't get past the F key and only was about three rows of keys. Less than 1/8 cup.
I immediately pulled the power plug and turned it off.
I left it to dry for a day upside down and turned it on. Everything seemed fine, except that after a little while the mouse started to right click on its own and when I typed, it was a combination of letters and numbers.
I have an iBook G4 (14-inch screen, 1.42 Ghz.) and it has a cracked screen. I also have a PowerBook G3 PDQ (14-inch screen, 233Mhz.) with a good screen. Question: Can you swap the screens even if they were made 7ish years apart?
1440x900 resolution of the new MacBook Air 13.3" screen is simply too high, making everything way too small and straining on my eyes. Is there a replacement LED LCD panel with a lower resolution (1280x800 like the old MBA) that could be retrofitted?
I have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard that I want to share between a PC and MBP via a DVI/USB KVM switch. I think I can do this by plugging a USB Bluetooth dongle into the KVM's USB input.
If I use the MBP's built-in bluetooth then when I switch from one computer to the other via the KVM, the keyboard and mouse will stay paired with the MBP; but if I disable the built-in hardware then the dongle can provide the bluetooth capability and be switched between the computers.
i bought the 2009 refurbed 27"er and returned it 3 times due to yellow screen problem. for the 4th replacement they decided to send me the new model.
i have the 3rd and 4th replacements sitting here side by side.the 3rd replacement, which has a yellow corner is light years better than the new one. the new screen doesn't have yellow corners...it's a perfectly consistent yellowish brown tone. the older one has a yellow corner, but is much more illuminated and very balanced white. the max brightness of the new one is only 3/4s of the max of the old one.i tried configuring it to no avail.
are all the new models like this?it's quite a bit snappier, but the screen is worse than the last 3 that had yellow patches? it almost seems like it was a return and it shipped from cali rather than asia?
This isn't directly related to macbooks but if I want to use the bluetooth built into my computer to connect to my non bluetooth printer can I buy any USB bluetooth dongle to plug into the printer ( Kodak all in one 5300) or do I need some specific kind? All the ones I look at don't mention anything about printers just connection between computers and phones.
