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gomaccrazy replied on July 24, 2008 13:31 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

I have the same problem. My MacBook already went in for this same problem, and it appears I have to send it back in again. Oh bother.

rnolds replied on July 24, 2008 13:23 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

I took my MacBookPro to my local service center. They replaced the screen completely and the inverter board. The problem is now completely fixed. Luckily I was still a week within my warranty.

muzzz replied on July 24, 2008 13:05 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

I used to have this problem but mine was a more subtle flicker that became obvious when the brightness was down a bit. I believe ALL macbooks have this same problem, people just keep the brightness all the way up so they don't notice it. Anyways, I think upgrading to Leopard solved it. Apple should replace the software drivers in the earlier versions of OSX. But they won't admit there is a problem so it is unlikely they will address it.

Christina replied on July 16, 2008 02:34 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

yay my powerbook was doing this and i turned the brightness down one notch and it went away. Love you guys!!

A comment on the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

Over time, the problem will get worse. At least mine did. I let it go for a year before I got it fixed because it wasn't that bad. Just before I took it in, it was really bad. New devices come with a 1 year warranty I think. Get it repaired if you can. – Steve, on July 06, 2008 00:09

Ian Lowe replied on July 05, 2008 16:25 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

Ive noticed this problem often when my computer wakes up from being asleep and is running on battery power. It's mainly just a nuisance but a little worrying since my device is less than a year old and I think I'm out of warranty.

josh@studioprisoner.com replied on July 03, 2008 23:43 to the problem "Photos.js download in Safari" in Brightkite:

Yeh getting this too. haha

Venicequeen28 replied on June 30, 2008 10:30 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

mines flickering AND turning pink. i am really upset... its not even 2 months old, it shouldnt be having problems.

Steve replied on June 30, 2008 04:50 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

I just took mine in a month ago and had the inverter replaced. It's been fine ever since. I was able to make it flicker every time when I would lower the screen to almost where it would go to sleep. I took it into the apple store and got it back in 4 days. I'm glad I got applecare on the device.

A comment on the problem "My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it" in Apple:

So far all is good: on my benchmarks: so, slightly faster in raw memory access, but slightly slower in streaming. Overall the same. The only problem I've encountered is that the system reports that the installed RAM as being PC2-3200S-2-6-6 (a non-existent configuration for DDR2 SODIMM RAM) instead of PC2-5300-4-4-4-, so I guess I'm paying a performance penalty of 1/7 (that would be 12/14) in latency. Not an noticeable, and barely measurable, penalty. To come back to Thor's problem, I'll let you all know whether I have any success. You can't prove a negative, but so far - early days - so good. Anyone here remember the underrated capacitors on the original Apple Graphite Airport base stations? outer – outer, on June 26, 2008 04:00

A comment on the problem "My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it" in Apple:

interesting! – John O'Day, on June 26, 2008 01:54

A comment on the problem "My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it" in Apple:

Yup. That's my issue too. MacBook Pro circa Dec 2006. Are then new new MacBooks seeing this issue too? – daemonchild, on June 24, 2008 20:29

A comment on the problem "My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it" in Apple:

Presumably under AppleCare? How much if you're not covered anyone? – daemonchild, on June 24, 2008 20:27

A comment on the problem "My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it" in Apple:

Well, I've just put my money where my mouth was and replaced my memory with two 1G PC2-5300 4-4-4-12 modules. We'll see. – outer, on June 24, 2008 20:18

A comment on the problem "My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it" in Apple:

outer that isn't really useful information, it's more opinion – DS, on June 24, 2008 17:33

outer replied on June 24, 2008 13:27 to the problem "My Macbook sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep mode after I open it" in Apple:

This is indicative of a hardware deadlock or livelock interrupt handler. On my PowerBook G4 1.67 Tiger, I suspect it is caused by Apple overclocking their supplied PC2-4200 DDR533 RAM to 333Mhz, while I have 3rd party JEDEC standard PC2-4200 RAM (which is only rated to 266Mhz) installed.

rnolds replied on May 22, 2008 12:17 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

Likewise I have to turn brightness down one notch to make it go away.

Alfaj0r replied on May 16, 2008 15:09 to the problem "Photos.js download in Safari" in Brightkite:

Same here.
(PS: I can has moar invitez?)

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John O'Day marked this reply as useful – John O'Day, on May 16, 2008 08:09

cliffrowley@gmail.com replied on May 15, 2008 00:31 to the problem "My MacBook screen is flickering!" in Apple:

Had a similar, if not the same problem, but the 'buzzing' is continuous. The only way to prevent it is to sleep the MacBook and then wake it again. This doesn't work all the time either.

Sent off my MBP (for the 2nd time) yesterday to get this repaired.