OS X 10.5.3 murdered my Macbook Pro!
Machinery breaks down, it’s a fact of life, but it was Apple’s latest update to OS X (10.5.3) that murdered my Macbook Pro. I tried asking for help from the official forums several days ago, but the prairie winds can still be heard blowing through the support request topic I created. Not one response.
I checked through other ‘Macbook Pro dark screen/black screen/died after software update’ posts, not all but a fair few coming after people had attempted 10.5.3 updates, and tried some of the solutions offered by other Apple customers. I could find no acknowledgement from Apple that it’s screwed up with its own hardware and software interactions—again—or when to expect a solution. Of course, Apple can’t promise a solution until it owns up to the bloody problem in the first place.
It seems to be the case that after installing 10.5.3, the video card at boot is misreported as the wrong type so the display can’t start up. What this means is most likely that a coder inserted the wrong video card information into the update for those Macbook Pros that are affected.
tags: 10.5.3, Apple, AppleCare, extended warranty, hardware, Leopard, Microsoft, OS X, software, telephone support, video display errors
