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Dear Ifixit, I recently started using my brother’s Mac book pro. He let me have it after it stopped booting randomly. For a while it worked perfectly, no issues with booting, resuming from sleep or battery/power related problems. Today for the first time it started crashing again. I manged to get a shot of the error screen with my phone. There are black patches all over the screen with an error message at the top. I’m led to believe that this is a motherboard issue and hence will need a replacement. I’m also told that the Apple techs couldn’t make out the problem. I hope that this problem has been seen before and that it has an, affordable, solution. A photograph of said error screen: http://imgur.com/ZeJgTNl Thank you.
I’ve seen that in relation to Gpu failures. If that’s the case, if you try using a graphic intensive application, like unigine engine, the mac will shut down within a couple of minutes or so..you can give it a try for confirmation.
