Hi,

I have a MacBook Pro model A1226 - 2.4GHz Mid-2007

While working away in the office, the screen went pink and green at the upper right corner and the text and other graphics displayed became distorted and pixelated. It did not respond to mouse (trackpad) or keyboard commands (frozen).

I powered it down, restarted and got the grey screen of death (kernel panic box, "You Need To Restart...") when it attempted to boot. I had just freshly installed Leopard less than a week ago so I don't think (hope) it's OS X related.

I then reset the SMC, zapped the PRAM, tried to boot from a Leopard install disc both internally and externally with a firewire DVD drive and in every case got the grey screen of death.

While doing all of this the screen seemed normal again. No pixel were missing and not pink and green with distortion reappeared. It's just that now, the computer won't boot no matter what I try.

Do you think it's the dreaded NVIDIA graphics card failures I've read about?

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377?viewl...

I've contacted Apple via the "Connect with an Apple Expert" page and have yet to hear from them. I have a case number at least.

Any and all advise is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Mike