OT: MacPro is playing up - any tips?

[Neal Campbell]

I had almost the exact same thing a year ago and ultimately it would not
boot at all (no chime, nothing). From what I understand, if it doesn't
chime, it didn't pass the POST routine on the motherboard.

You are right on, it turned out that the graphics card had burned out. I
took it as an opportunity to upgrade to the 3870 radeon card which was
crazily expensive versus what you get in the PC world but you gotta pay for
no driver issues someway!

Best wishes
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER




On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:46 PM, David Bovill <david at vaudevillecourt.tv>wrote:

> Today my MacPro suddenly decided to freeze - with pretty green stipes and
> pink squares all over the screen. Restarting only worked after resetting
> PRAM and rebooting in Single User Mode. It's been a very long time since
> I've had a problem with an OSX machine - so I am wandering if there are any
> diagnostic tips out there? If feels like an Xwindows / video card issue -
> but I am wandering what steps I can take to help diagnose the issue?
>
> Thanks in advance :(
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