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System hang, refuses to boot for a while & has pixelated error screen

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.

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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.

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Dear Arbaman,

Thank you for the response, I will try it out. The first time I had it crash was when I was browsing the net while copying 2.5 GB of files. The weird thing is it works fine after a few attempts to boot.

Since the last crash I have used Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Indesign CC without any problem. I also tried Capture One 10 and it worked fine, although a bit slow. I should note that I didn't do any heavy duty editing or grading.

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