Just knew that replacing a fuse on the 3-pin plug will void your power adapter warranty .. My wife's 4 months old MBP couldn't charge, no light coming from the charger end .. so, I took out the fuse and checked, yes, it blew of course .. so, I took a 3A from my daughter's 3-pin plug .. the same exact brand/value/etc .. spark coming out from the square brick and it blew the fuse .. called Apple support and they said that replacing the fuse might void the warranty .. what the ... why in the world they have a replaceable fuse when you can't change it yourself .. and unknowingly void the warranty .. but after the lady at the support line consulted her superior, they're changing it FOC for me, just need to bring it to VRTech or Sapura Synergy .. ughh.. lesson learned ..

I called the 1800 number, and since when power adapter is a wear & tear? Anyway, went to vrtech this morning and need to wait for Tuesday for replacement.

Now .. I wonder .. why the lady on the other end confidently said that changing the fuse is considered as DIY and this void the power adapter warranty. I did raised my voice last night because it is unbelievable, the Malaysian 3-pin plug has the fuse as user replaceable. Anyway, I'll say the next time I have a problem, I'll not call them .. but rather just bring my MBP to VRTech.

This post has been edited by wiraone: Aug 6 2010, 09:41 PM

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

Got my power adapter replacement today .. err.. took Apple a week to ship the replacement .. grrr...

Do you somehow have setup the open firmware password? More information found here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1352

If yes, it will disable some of the key combinations during bootup.

Agreed .. but Intel just announced its mobile i3 and i5 processors update .. so probably there will be only a speed bump .. but .. errm.. the current MBP design has been used for I believe almost two years ..

ebay .. I source most of the hard to find parts from ebay.

Sent my MBP last Monday to VR Tech and was told that it will be ready by Friday .. no call from them, so I called them up today .. and guess what, the girl who picked the phone said that the could only checked my MBP on Friday (I've told them that it needs HD replacement on Monday when I sent the MBP).. and she told me that it will take another week or so for the HD to be sent to Singapore and the replacement to be sent back to VR Tech. Adoi.... but she gave me a solution, get myself a new HD first, they'll replace the HD with mine.. and when the replacement HD arrive, they'll call me up to pickup the HD. So, got myself a 500GB Hitachi 7200rpm and will go down to YKS tomorrow .. 30 mins was the time I was told for them to replace the HD. The girl said they're outnumbered by number of repairs need to be done.. I wonder how bad Apple products now when it will take them more than a week to get fixed (and me w/o the MBP).

Just wondering why Apple just couldn't stock up their vendors with common failed parts? From my experience, owning Apple products for years, it will take a week from part order to part replacement, mainly due to the shipment which usually take at least 2 days to reach the vendors in KL. Oh well.. no point moaning about it here.. just pre-warn you guys that the minimum time for repair is a week.

I'm at VR Tech right now, guess what, saw lot of EPIC service orders (and a box full of MB/MBPs).. so, they're taking repairs from some other resellers too not just direct walk-in customers.

Especially the hard disk, my wife's MBA has it's HD replaced .. they found a dent on one of the edge, so I guess somehow, the MBP slipped off her hand while it was on and causes the HD went bad. I did the same on mine too few months back .. the HD went kaput too

Have you experience any beach ball symptom lately? If yes, you might have a bad HDD.

My wife is complaining about the beach ball once again, this is on a new Hitachi 500GB/7200rpm replacement that was put in last week. Anybody else having a problem with mid-2010 MBP/15, i5?

Found the following link about the problem:

http://appletoolbox.com/2010/05/continued-...-testing-units/

"gay" means two things:

1. "homosexual"
2. carefree, happy

No idea which one he refers to though

One thing need to be done on wifi problem, first .. turn off any security, test it .. if this is okay, try using WEP, if this okay .. then try WPA/2 .. BTW, what kind of router are you using dinraxxx?

The ACPP can be used only if you bought it within a year. Like say if you've bought your notebook 1st April 2010, you need to get an ACPP within a year, hence, before the 1st April 2011. So, if you've bought your MB in 2008 and the ACPP within that year and you did link them together (yes, you just can't buy ACPP w/o registering it to your notebook), then the warranty will be up to 3 years from when you bought your notebook .. hence, early 2008 + 2 additional years .. early 2011 is the end of your warranty.

I would say the guys just talking bollocks Mac as Windows will be happy if you can give it as much RAM as available .. which reseller did you go? Guess the PCZone one. Order it online, it will take few days extra I guess if you need the 4GB instead of the stock 2GB configuration.

zergg, most probably a hard disk problem. put your ear near where the HD is and try to hear if you can heard something strange .. sometime, when there is a bad sector, it will retries to read the HD and that is when you can hear that strange sound..

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Added on December 7, 2010, 2:52 pmYahoo Messenger has webcam support, why not use it? I guess many of your friends are on YM anyway..

This post has been edited by wiraone: Dec 7 2010, 02:52 PM

Put in the installation DVD, press "C" and let it boot up, when it ask do you want to install, go to file bar, find a disk utility there and run disk utility.. there is an option to do the repair. More info can be found here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417

And yes, you could upgrade your HD to SSD, just go and get yourself an SSD, bring it to any Apple service centres, they're more than happy to do it for you for RM50 service fee without OS installation though.

This post has been edited by wiraone: Dec 7 2010, 06:36 PM

Make sure your external monitor is properly 'grounded' (electrically) .. does it have three-pins plug? Do you have this external monitor plugged into a power strip/block? Try to plug the power cable straight to the wall socket, might be the power strip/block is broken (i.e. not grounded properly).