Could simply replacing a fan on a graphics card cause OS issues?

OK I suppose it's a bonafide long shot that my replacing of an intermittently malfunctioning fan on a graphics card could cause OS issues, but I've had something immediately crop up after the replacement (crippling issues with Logic's 32-bit audio uinit bridge), and they effect older projects that were previously stable, so I figured I'd ask for the heckuvit.
Repairing permissions hasn't helped - I'm just starting to ponder whether to reset PRAM, reset SMC, boot from an HD clone, try reinstalling the old fan, etc., in order to figure out the problem....
BTW - the graphics card is an Nvidia GT120.

Go out and buy an Apple ATI 5770.
What requirements does Logic have for video, and are you still on 10.6.8?
The GT120 is 512MB but low-end card.
If you do need more performance:
SHOOTOUT WITH THE 'SHARKS': Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 for Mac versus really fast alternate GPUs

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Could the replacement of a fan on a graphics card cause OS issues?

[Dangit - I unintentionally posted this in the iMac forum first - meant to post it here]
OK I suppose it's a bonafide long shot that my replacing of an intermittently malfunctioning fan on a graphics card could cause OS issues, but I've had something immediately crop up after the replacement (crippling issues with Logic's 32-bit audio unit bridge), and they effect older projects that were previously stable, so I figured I'd ask for the heckuvit.
Repairing permissions hasn't helped - I'm just starting to ponder whether to reset PRAM, reset SMC, boot from an HD clone, try reinstalling the old fan, etc., in order to figure out the problem....
BTW - the graphics card is an Nvidia GT120.

Go out and buy an Apple ATI 5770.
What requirements does Logic have for video, and are you still on 10.6.8?
The GT120 is 512MB but low-end card.
If you do need more performance:
SHOOTOUT WITH THE 'SHARKS': Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 for Mac versus really fast alternate GPUs

Replacement for msi geforce 9500gs graphics card

Need, REPLACEMENT FOR MSI GeForce 9500GS Graphics Card. On HP m9510f Desktop. I didn't replace while under warranty.

JudyInTexas wrote "No way that will fit. There is a PCI Express card next to the video card and no empty slots on the Elite 9340f"
Since this is not the topic of the thread, it should be in a new thread. Care to provide more info and just what is expected?
That model "9340f" does come with the geforce 9500gs graphics card, according to this page: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01465973&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=374...
Care to provide what your statement is pertaining to?
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Replacement G5 won't recognize graphics card for iMovie

Here's what's going on: I just bought a used, replacement G5 Tower on eBay and moved the HD from my dead G5 to it. Booted up fine, and everything works - EXCEPT iMovie! I get a dialogue box that says:
*Your computer contains a graphics card which may not support iMovie.*
iMovie requires a "Quartz Extreme Compatible" graphics card. Certain iMovie features such as Themes, Ken Burns Photos, and Video FX may not work properly with your graphics card."
I tried it anyway and it will not play any clips. It shows a still of the thumbnails, and you hear the sound track being played, but no video footage is shown (black screen). I tried this several ways, including importing a clip from another project to a new project. Nothing changed.
How could this be? Did my eBay-bought G5 possibly have a different graphics card installed? What's going on? I need to resume my video projects!

Hi Michael, quite likely a different card.
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware>Graphics/Displays and report like this...
NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT:
Chipset Model: GeForce 7800GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0092
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 2152.2
Displays:
VGA Display:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported

Fan noise after graphic card changed - Qosmio F10-101

Two months ago i have had my graphic card changed from nvidia fx 5700 to nvidia geforce go 6600.
from my laptop toshiba qosmio f10-101. After changing the old graphic card there is a fan noise that starts and stops every 2 minutes , that it drives me crazy every time i'm hear it.
Can somebody tell me if this noise is natural and if he/she knows if the specific card is noisy in every laptop? or If there are any ways to disappear this noise or increase in the maximum speed the noise.??
Message was edited by: marlena

Hello Marlena
On Qosmio forum you can find few similar topics with few interesting comments. On of http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=10944&messageID=42103
Bye

Mac Pro Graphics Card causing freezes?

Hi there,
My 1st Gen Mac Pro keep freezing...most times requiring a restart. The freezes seem to occur when 'using' the graphics card (Nvidia 7300GT). Have completely reinstalled OSX and it still happens.
Hardware Test doesn't bring up a problem with the graphics card, but there are some weird black glitches which appear on text and also some windows acquire the ability to rub others out...? Also, on turning on, the computer sometimes shows just red, green random patches of colour. The problems seem to be getting gradually worse.
Monitor is fine (have tested with another and the same thing happens). The freezes have happened happen when doing the following...
1. Orbiting in Sketchup
2. Changing between windows in Finder
3. Scrolling through the Console Window (ironically in a failed attempt to find out what was wrong...)
4. Using the Space bar on a file on look at it quickly.
Does this sound like the GPU is shot? I have ordered a new 8800GT from the Apple Store in the meantime (we could always put it in another Mac Pro).
Has anyone encountered a similar problem before and if so, was there a fix?
Thanks,
n.b. the Mac Pro is not covered by AppleCare and is out of warranty.

Actually, the other thing which makes me suspicious is the appearance of the word 'nvidia' in the kernel panic log
Tue May 19 17:35:07 2009
panic(cpu 2 caller 0x00683643): NVRM[0]: Read Error 0x00009200: BAR0 0xf1000000 0x75e7f000 0x04b300a2 D3 P0/1
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x6d8974e8 : 0x12b4c6 (0x45ec20 0x6d89751c 0x13355c 0x0)
0x6d897538 : 0x683643 (0x8b3e20 0x8b3e20 0x8783ec 0x0)
0x6d897598 : 0x6c6054 (0x899b804 0x8d70004 0x9200 0x6bfa6a)
0x6d8975d8 : 0x94c46f (0x8d70004 0x9200 0x1 0x8f5a004)
0x6d8975f8 : 0x784f16 (0x8d70004 0x8b6b004 0x0 0x0)
0x6d897638 : 0x935cdf (0x8b6b004 0x514 0x514 0x1)
0x6d897678 : 0x741e63 (0x8d70004 0x8f5a004 0x0 0x0)
0x6d8976b8 : 0x7eadd1 (0x8d70004 0x8f5a004 0x0 0x0)
0x6d8976f8 : 0x75a59c (0x8d70004 0x5c2f 0x0 0x0)
0x6d897748 : 0x75a6b2 (0x8d70004 0x58187004 0xac00 0xd)
0x6d897768 : 0x914fd1 (0x8d70004 0x58187004 0xc 0x8b4b290)
0x6d8977c8 : 0x918b30 (0x8ae9204 0xac02 0x1 0x0)
0x6d897888 : 0x694413 (0x8d70004 0x3d 0x0 0x0)
0x6d897918 : 0x6813ec (0xc1d00021 0x8000000 0x41 0x2)
0x6d897a78 : 0x672dd8 (0x0 0x600d600d 0x703a 0x6d897aa8)
0x6d897b38 : 0x85b2ec (0xc1d00021 0x8000000 0x41 0x2)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.nvidia.nv40hal(5.4.4)@0x8c9000->0xa93fff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(5.4.4)@0x66a000
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.4.4)@0x66a000->0x8c8fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.7.3)@0x65c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x62e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.7.3)@0x63f000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9J61
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar 31 22:52:17 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro1,1 (Mac-F4208DC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 766414544582
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAPlatformDriver 1.6.8a3 - last unloaded 80521838742
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9d0 - last loaded 12655794675
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAPlatformDriver 1.6.8a3
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com.apple.DontSteal_Mac_OSX 6.0.3
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com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.6.8a3
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 1.7.7
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com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 1.5.2
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Graphics card/logic board issues: Macbook Pro Freezing during Apple Hardware Test!

I have a macbook pro that was working fine then the screen started acting funny. It would sometimes "tile" up where you would see the same issue repeated over and over on the screen and then computer would freeze. Sometimes the screen would start to have a strobing look and then freeze. I thought the computer was crashing but once the screen froze but the processor was still running. I knew the computer was still processing because I was streaming a video online and the audio from the video continued to download and play event though the screen was frozen.
I went to the apple store and they said they think it sounds like failure of the hardrive, graphics card, display, logic board. A new hard drive was just put in the computer about 4-6 weeks ago, and if it is the other issues could be $500-$800+ to repair. I tried to use the Apple Hardware test (non-extended test) but it keeps freezes at 2 min 32 secs every time when it starts "testing the main logic board"....
Has anyone seen anything like this and have another way to test what the problem could be? Thanks!

I know you're in denial, but it really does sound like the motherboard or graphics board which is integrated with the motherboard. Yes, fixing these things will cost almost as much as a new MacBook Pro. Get a new one, take the HDD out of your old one, and start over again.

Is my weedy graphics card causing problems in Soundtrack Pro?

Newcomer to Soundtrack Pro here, just getting to grips with what I can tell is a very powerful application, but I have a very basic question.
I am running a relatively old G5, still with its factory standard graphics card -- nVidia GeForce FX 5200 64MB VRAM -- yet somehow I have been able to get by, first in Final Cut Express for a couple of years and more recently for the last year in Final Cut Studio.
My latest project was very ambitious, at least for me: a 13-minute short film shot in DVCPro HD, for which I upgraded to Final Cut Studio. There was a steep learning curve, but I struggled on and got by with my 64MB VRAM. Then I really hit a wall when it came to the sound mix in Soundtrack Pro. I had more than 70 tracks and it was murder, dropping frames and stuttering. I bought a new external 500 GB hard drive to mix to and that improved things a little, but it was agonizingly slow with terrible audio drop frame playback problems and has resulted in a very uneven mix.
If I finally bite the bullet and invest in a better graphics card -- the 256MB GeForce 6800 Ultra was recommended to me, but they are expensive and hard to come by -- will that help the performance in Soundtrack Pro? I am not sure if it's that, or my inexperience in laying out such lot of tracks that is causing me this log jam. It has been frustrating, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, Jim --
Thanks again for the note above. A month later, I have finally found some time to get back to my short film, trying to improve the mix in SoundtrackPro. I've been looking forward to this, because your advice seemed like a great idea. It seems obvious to me now that I should not have tried to mix my sound with my Final Cut Pro media on one drive and my STP file on another. However, I still can't get STP to work for me. Here is what I tried:
I copied all my FCP media (186 GB) from my my (232 GB) internal drive to my 500GB external drive, where I previously mixed the sound into a (62.5 MB) STP file. I then placed all my internal drive media in a new renamed folder, so STP would not get confused and go looking for it there. When I tried to open my STP file, I spent 20 minutes guiding it to find the migrated media in its new home on my 500GB external drive. I did this three times, and each time STP crashed just before it opened.
I don't have room on my internal drive to use STP to mix my FCP media there. I only have 41.GB available, which brings me back to my original problem of severe latency and dropping frames.
My last option, it seems to me, is to forget my old STP mix completely, start over on my external drive by opening my FCP source material there and use that to create a new STP file on the external drive, doing the entire mix all over from scratch. Do you think that could work, or is there some other basic workflow issue I am overlooking?
The good news is my short film has now been accepted into its first film festival -- I sent them a screener DVD made directly from FCP through Compressor. I guess I could lower my sights and use that for festival screening in a less-than-ideal mix. But that would be a shame because I put several hundred hours into Soundtrack Pro, but the levels are all over the place because I could not control the mix.
One thing I have learned: I have newfound respect for mixing and the sound editor's craft!
Joe

Switching from ATI to NVIDIA graphic card caused initscript to break

First off, I want to apologize for having to use a random BugMeNot account but the "What is the output of "date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?" question is literally impossible for me to answer as my Arch Linux system will not boot up.
Well, that aside, I've run into a relatively serious problem. I used to have an ATI card in my system, using the catalyst driver and catalyst-hook to make sure it would keep working after kernel updates but then disaster stroke. My power supply died and dragged my graphic card down with it. After bringing it to a PC store for repair, I now have the NVIDIA GeForce GTX550 Ti card in it. All fine and well, until I wanted to start Arch Linux to remove my catalyst driver and install the NVIDIA one. I started the system, the initscript started to run, did a small part of it's tasks and while processing UDev events it started to spit errors regarding noveau and refused to boot up. (It only showed those errors for a very short time, so it's hard to get the exact error message. I've typed it over from an image I took with my mobile phone and the blurry image may make it possible for this to contain typos)
Error message:
[ 4.916398] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[ 4.916467] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x0447: Failed parsing init table opc
ode: INIT_I2C_LONG_IF -19
[ 4.936630] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[ 4.947042] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: EvoCh 0 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x00000000 (
0x0001 0x01)
Things I have tried:
- Starting Arch Linux fallback
- Starting Arch Linux on runlevel 1
- Shouting at Arch Linux in frustration
However, all three things resulted in the exact same issue.
If anyone knows what to do or has even the slightest hint, I'd love to know.
Thanks in advance and have a nice day,
- TheLastProject

Hm, I'd try to put the nvidia card out and to plug the gfx cable into the socket of your onboard graphics chip, if any.
Then boot into runlevel 3 (text mode) and uninstall the ati drivers. Poweroff, put your nv-card in, boot and install Xorg and the appropriate nvidia driver (just follow the wikis).
If you can't boot into rl3 at all however, edit the grub's command line (or "kernel line") and add single at the and. After booting into runlevel 1 as a single user this way, enter init 3 for rl3. Finally edit /etc/inittab accordingly. -- Alternatively you can edit /etc/inittab with booting your Arch cd, and being chroot'ed.
Last edited by nexus7 (2012-01-26 20:57:14)

Is anyone still having discrete graphics card problems after replacement

Is anyone still having discrete graphics card problems after replacement?
Macbook Pro eligible for replacement through Apple program.
Submitted my computer 2 days before program came into effect.
They replaced card or logic board with same original model: AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB
Issued me a refund check for my repair.
Seems to have some noticeable issues, fan running more than usual again, and temporary graphic lines,
but disappear too fast before a screen dump...
Is anyone who has participated in the replacement program received a different graphic card for
Model Macbook Pro 17" (late 2011)
Thank you for the reply.

Unfortunately I have yet to call AppleCare because I am on a project for 3 weeks and cannot be without my laptop during that period....
Until that time I am trying to figure out what I can do to protect the Palm Rest/Mouse Pad area of my Macbook once they either fix it or give me a new one. Has anyone had any experience with either of these products that can provide some input as to whether they are good or bad?
http://www.marware.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Marware.woa/6/wa/selectedCategory?cata logCatID=224&wosid=djXnz6k0JQiXbGEX7Stos0
http://www.powersupportusa.com/products/macbook-wrtp.php?category=mb

Envy 700 graphics card has a bad fan. Looking for advice.

Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset AMD Radeon HD 7500 Series
Device ID 675D
Vendor ID 1002
Subsystem ID 90BD
Subsystem Vendor ID 1B0A
Revision ID 00
Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 2.0
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 2.0 x16
BIOS Version 013.012.000.041
BIOS Part Number 113-AD47200-102
BIOS Date 2012/06/28
Memory Size 2048 MB
Memory Type DDR3
Core Clock in MHz 650 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 800 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 25.6 GByte/s
That information is from the card I have installed in the computer. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth replacing the heatsink and fan or it would be easier to just buy a new card? What's an equivalent card? As far as I can tell, there is no radeon hd 7500. It's not for sale anywhere.
Does anyone have a link on how to replace the heatsink on a graphics card? I'm not even sure if it can be done.

You did not mention the 700's model #. Saying you own an HP 700 is like stating I own a Chevy.
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Could You upgrade the graphics card on a powerbook G4 titanium

Hello everybody My name is John,
I have a video card, ATI RAGE 128 Mobility graphics card (with 8 MiB of VRAM; running at 2x AGP) could you upgrade( meaning buying a higher graphics card and installing it on your laptop) To a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card running at 4x AGP, which shipped with 32 MiB of VRAM or a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64 MiB) ????
If anybody has any suggestion or any idea If it is possible, please write back,
Cheers,
John

Hi John,
Video cards in TiBooks are soldered onto the logic board, and cannot be upgraded.

T61p graphic card problem

My laptop is T61p, 8891.
I'm referring to the Document ID: MIGR-69684(http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-69684), it says:
SymptomSome ThinkPad T61, T61p, or R61 systems with Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M (NVIDIA NB8M-GS) or Quadro FX 570M (NVIDIA NB8P-GL) graphics and two memory DIMMs installed may intermittently report that the video adapter "has stopped responding, but has recovered", typically when doing graphics intensive processing such as a video benchmark or video game.Affected configurations
The following systems running Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista may be affected:
Thinkpad T61, T61p (type 1959, 6377, 6457, 6458, 6459, 6460, 6461, 6462, 6470, 6481, 7662, 7663, 7664, 7665, 8889, 8890, 8891, 8892, 8893, 8894, 8939)
ThinkPad R61 (7742, 7743, 7744, 7751, 7753, 7754, 7755)
SolutionContact the help center and reference tip MIGR-72482 to get your planar replaced.
Applicable countries and regions Worldwide
I have two questions here:
1, My laptop is out of warranty, can I still ask to replace the motherboard replaced for free, or I need to pay?
2, Actually I didn't encounter such problem as I seldom "doing graphics intensive processing" (the heaviest job with my graphic card is to play Rise of Nation and Need for Speed 11), do I still need to consider to replace the motherboard or the graphic card to avoid the risk?
Please please advise! Thank you!
Message Edited by Jony on 07-02-2009 11:21 PM

kuba wrote:
I just realized, that I'm also experiencing this issue.
When I run CUDA application (GPU Load is up to 99% according to GPU-Z) after a while I get error mentioned here http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-69684.
It really annoyed me, because I need my computer to smoothly handle CUDA computing (I thought it would)
I've got T61 7664 with Quadro NVS 140M. I've got 3 year limited warranty and this is second year I'm using my T61.
What should I do? Ship it to service center? Will my laptop be repaired free of charge?
you could call lenovo service and see what they suggest.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

Unreadable graphics card

i recently installed a new graphics card, a dual-x r9 270x Radeon graphics card. When I turned on the screen there was a black screen saying there was an error with one of the cooling fans.I disregarded the message and installed the software for the card and wanted to see if the card worked. I started playing a game and within an hour the game started acting funny and I noticed the tower was putting out a lot of heat. I turned off the computer as quickly as possible and let it cool down. When I opened the tower I found out that one of the connectors from the power supply to the card was not connected all the way so I fixed it. When I turned on the computer I got two beeps and a third long one and found out it meant an unreadable graphics card... I've tried cleaning it, removing it and making sure the connections are plugged in. I can't seem to get it to work.
Can someone tell me if my graphics card is no good anymore or if I can maybe fix it

Hi,
"unreadable graphics card".??????? Never heard of much as message.
Why would you try cleaning a brand new graphics card?
I remember reading a post on another forum similar to this post and the poster elected to replace the PC and the graphics card.
HP DV9700, t9300, Nvidia 8600, 4GB, Crucial C300 128GB SSD
HP Photosmart Premium C309G, HP Photosmart 6520
HP Touchpad, HP Chromebook 11
Custom i7-4770k,Z-87, 8GB, Vertex 3 SSD, Samsung EVO SSD, Corsair HX650,GTX 760
Custom i7-4790k,Z-97, 16GB, Vertex 3 SSD, Plextor M.2 SSD, Samsung EVO SSD, Corsair HX650, GTX 660TI
Windows 7/8 UEFI/Legacy mode, MBR/GPT

Graphics card crashing

I have a 2007 Mac Pro. A couple years ago my graphics card failed and I replaced it with the Apple graphics card upgrade. In the last couple of months I have experienced a problem where I will randomly lose the signal to the displays all of the sudden. The only way to fix it is to hard reset. This happens more qickly and frequently when running a second monitor.

You said you could only fix it with a power-button off and a re-boot.
Much less traumatic, and sometimes successful, is to put your Mac to sleep, even for a few seconds, and then wake it.
You can do this "blind" regardless of your settings using Control-Eject. This brings up this old Dialog box (whether you can actually see it on not). The letter S puts your Mac to sleep. The next key you type wakes it again. Try it now, before you have a probelm.

Could simply replacing a fan on a graphics card cause OS issues?

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