OT: MacPro is playing up - any tips?

[David Bovill]

Thanks Neal - any way to test it is the graphics card without going out and
buying another one - I don't have any spare cards to hand?

The machine and graphics card is just over a of year old - so I guess I'll
just have to go out and buy a new card, it was a farily expensive NVidia
effort.... hmmm can't even see how to buy one on the Apple UK Online Store.

On 14 April 2010 18:50, Neal Campbell <nealk3nc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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