Bad Video BGA on my MacBook Pro 17" A1212?
It chimes. It can reset PRAM. I have reset the SMC several times.
If I try to boot with an OS X Installer on DVD via the internal optical drive, an external optical drive, or a USB drive, I get a blank screen.
I will see the rotating gear icon and the Apple logo, but when they disappear, I will see a blank, white, screen for OS X Installers. I tried loading Bootable Utilities for Mac (2.2.0) and saw a sky-blue, but blank, screen after the Apple logo and rotating gear icon disappeared.
The only program I have been able to load and run is MemTest86 (6.3.0). No errors.
Looks like I have a variant of the bad BGA video chip that plagued the 15" siblings. I have yet to test this 17" Macbook Pro with external video.
Looking forward to the feedback.
What system are you trying to install?
mayer さんによる
Trying with Lion (10.7). Snow Leopard (10.6) later, perhaps.
lkvee さんによる