Dead video? Ultra30 Creator3D

I recently purchased a used ultra 30 creator 3d. Seemed to work fine and i got a bunch of stuff installed, but today when i went to turn on the machine the video is dead. the machine comes up just fine, and I can telnet into the machine from my bsd box. I can run the ffbconfig utilities on ffb0 and it seems to accept the settings, however there is no signal coming from the machine. The monitor works fine on other systems, and i have tried two different 13w3 to vga adapters. Mind you i didn't change anything, this was all working fine yesterday. Is there anyway I can get more info from the video card? it doesn't come up at all, even when the openboot stuff is loading, which is what makes me think it is a hardware problem. I put it into single user mode and did a reset-all, but that didn't help either. anyone? anyone? beuler? beuler? thanks

On the page regarding this issue, it says "Apple will continue to evaluate the repair data and will provide further repair extensions as needed." (bold font my edition).
(from http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377)
Does anyone know if they are extending the period - or if this sentence means that older computers will also be fixed?

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Screen Distoring, Possible Dead Video Card, PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7

I've had my Dual 2.7 G5 since early 2005. It has been a great computer for me over the years. Noisy as ****, but great. A month ago my screen started to distort every now and then (see pics below). The computer would freeze when the screen distorted. Then when I would reboot, the distortion and artifacting would occur even at the grey boot up screen and lock up. With enough reboots it would finally get back to the desktop and be fine for a few days. This no longer works anymore. I haven't successfully booted the computer in over 2 weeks. After the distorted grey boot screen it will go black and all you see is the artifacts, never getting to the desktop. Is this a dead video card? I'm running the stock AGP Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT.
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If this is a dead video card, do you have any suggestions for the best AGP replacement. I'm looking for something powerful. All I'm finding are very pricey 256mb cards. I'm willing to pay for a powerful card. Thanks very much. I don't want to give up on this G5!

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
Agreed, the card is toast.
Look on eBay for used OEM cards, as that is your best bet.
The same card is a good choice, with only the Mac edition Radeon X800XT or X850XT being more powerful.
There is yet another alternative, that in a flashed Geforce 7800 GS, which is THE most powerful AGP card available for Macs.
For the money, a flashed 7800 GS is the best bet.
http://www.barefeats.com/mutant3a.html
Recommended sellers:
Geforce 7800 GS
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Dead Video Ipod

Help..
My video ipod is only a month old.. and it just died.. its not on hold ,the battery was fine.. it wasn't dropped. I tried recharging with the wall unit and USB port.. the chargers work fine since I tried them both with my nano and mini.. this thing is just dead.. any ideas on this... ?? It was sitting on my desk at home.. working fine.. then nothing...no resetting nothing.. dead dead dead

I had experience. I thought I lost my iPod.. I looked everywhere. and gave up for about a month. Then I found it, it was inside a hidden compartment in my bag.
but. it wouldn't start. it was dead. I started for the heck of it recharge it. it didn't seem to respond, then... faintly the apple logo appeared ... and apple logo became more clear....then I pressed the play button... for long time.. volla.. it came back to life...
ghj

Dead Video?

When I attempt to boot I get the normal chime and feel the HDD running, but the screen has this burning look. A large area is black that's surrounded by green and magenta and it grows slowly to the bottom left corner and eventually turns completely black, no Apple logo, nothing. When I connect the machine to an external display that display doesn't even know to turn on when I boot.
Bad video (ATI Rage 128)? I know that there's no stand alone video card so what would it be connected to? Logic board?
What ever part it may be may not be worth replacing, but just curious what to look for if I decide to go that route.
Thanks for any help,
Tony

Tony,
It does sound like a serious problem with the logic board, probably the VideoRAM and/or ATI graphics card. The internal display has a data cable, inverter cable, and inverter that connect to the logic board; even if the display's LCD or fluorescent bulb or any of the aforementioned items was bad, the video output to the external monitor would not be affected. Since both the internal and external display go "wonkers" at the same time, this would suggest the logic board.
One item that can affect video output to any source is a poorly seated microprocessor card, although your symptoms are not exactly the same. If you wanted to cover all bases, reseat the card:
Remove main battery, power adapter, and optical drive; lift off but do not disconnect the keyboard; lift off the heat shield; remove the top memory module. Now press down very hard on the right side of the microprocessor card next to the HD and closest to the palm rest. Without reassembly, connect just the power adapter and start up and test. If no success, press down even harder, then test again.
I don't know if bad RAM can also cause an issue like this. If removing the top memory module makes no difference, you could lift out the microprocessor card, replace the bottom RAM module with the one from the top slot (and leave the top slot empty), then test.
Here is Apple's guide to replacing memory in the top and bottom slots:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50028
Here is iFixit's guide:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/PowerBook-G3-Pismo/6/

Dead video on Sun W2100

I got a used Sun W2100 workstation when I power it on the fans start up and then quiets down and seem to boot normally. I have a type 6 Sun usb keyboard and the computer seems to recognize the kb; but the problem is the video I get a completely blank screen.
It has a AGP 8x graphics card and I connected a Dell flat panel screen (1440 x 900 / 75 Hz) using a DB13W3-to-HD15 adapter (non Sun brand). I think the adapter is okay since I've used it to connect the flat panel to a sunray 2 terminal (but a sun adapter is on the way). According to specs: for 17" I need: 17-inch Sun flat screen CRT - * 0.24 mm dot pitch * Up to 1280 x 1024 at 75 Hz. I read posts in this forum of display mismatch and am wondering if I may be having same problem of mismatched display.
-- ted

steffen,
I just got back the computer my friend never worked on a Sun before but he got the opteron 280's installed and it seems to be working fine. I haven't had time to do much testing but when I do mpstat and prstat it recognizes all 4 cores and they seem active. Also, my friend told me that with the 280's it seems to boot up much faster and the boot up message indicates that it found opteron 280's. He flashed the w2100z with the latest bios before the install.
Ted

Dead video in firefox 37

a friend's browser got upgraded to v. 37 yesterday, since then youtube videos do not work.
we just see a blank screen, no video, no audio.
any ideas on how to fix it?

I have the same issue, but i found a solution.
If you go into about:config ( type about:config ) into the adress field.
and then search for media.mediasource.enabled which should be set to true in V37.
Set it to false instead, this made my youtube html5 player work again.

IBook G3 dead video

The iBook G3 900Mhz that I have was a victim of the iBook logic board issue, the syptoms at the time being scrambled video and intermittent lines on the screen. About a year ago (perhaps a little more, I'll have to check the dates) it was sent in for repair by Apple, out of warranty, under their Expanded Logic Board Replacement Program (http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/).
When it came back, the video problem was gone, however I was not overly impressed with the work done on the ibook, as the shell was now warped, apparently re-assembled incorrectly. I then had to bring it into a local repair shop which managed to re-assembled the casing properly.
Now, the other week the iBook's video just stopped working. Turn it on, it chimes away, and appears to go through the standard boot procedure, however no video. I hooked it up to my Powerbook via Firewire, set the iBook to target disk mode and booted the Powerbook off of the iBook's hard drive, and it boots fine, everything seems to run fine, just no video on the iBook's screen.
So, I got my hands on an external display, and hooked that up to the iBook, and still no video. Then I followed Apple's support page, which suggested resetting the PMU and zapping the PRAM. I did that, and still no video. However, it was shortly after those last two steps that I noticed an odd smell coming from the iBook. As soon as I realized that it was a burning/melting smell, I quickly yanked the power cable and removed the battery. As I removed the battery (which incidentilly had not been removed ever since it last came back from service) a loose screw fell out, I assume from somewhere in the battery compartment, although I could not locate any empty screw holes.
So, now, the question is, has anyone else had any similar experiences, and what are the odds of Apple ponying up to repair this now twice defective iBook?
Thanks,
Tim
iMac Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8) PB G4 500, PB G4 400, iBook G3 900
Update: The original purchase date was June 2003, which is outside of their 3 year window for the faulty logic board replacement program, however it has already been sent in once, so I'm not sure how long they would guaratnee their work for.

Hi, Tim. Welcome to Apple Discussions.
The bad news is that Apple only warrants their repairs for 90 days.
The (maybe) good news is that they sometimes have been making an exception to the three-year rule on the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program. The FAQ page lists one of the symptoms as "Computer starts up to blank screen," so that may be what you're looking at again.
Since it is past the three-year time limit, try calling Apple and ask for Customer Relations (NOT Customer Service--they can't help you) and ask them to please make an exception to the three-year limit in your case, especially since your iBook was apparently serviced poorly the first time. Keep the tone polite and disappointed. That seems to get you further than indignant anger, although I know it's a bit difficult not to be indignantly angry. Your tone here leads me to believe that you have the correct approach.
Some people have told me that it shouldn't matter what your tone is, but Apple's Customer Relations people are humans, too, and, as such, they seem to usually respond in a human way. Mama always told me, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar," and that is nearly always true.
If the answer from Apple is absolutely, positively, "NO!" DT & T Computer Services in Fremont, California offers the cheapest repair I've found. They have a six-month warranty on the repair.
You may want to consider trying the shim fix suggested by John Sawyer elsewhere here in the Displays Forum:
[Y]ou can often fix this yourself by removing the iBook's bottom housing, and placing a shim of any sort, about 1mm to 1.5mm thick, onto the raised square on the bottom shield. I use a Scotch mounting square--you can get them in hardware stores and many grocery stores. When you reinstall the bottom case, it will press against this shim, which will press against the graphics chip, and may allow the chip to come into better contact with the logic board.
John Sawyer
CJS Macintosh Repair
Instructions for removing the lower case:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/50.5.0.html
Once you get it fixed, try never to pick it up by the left front corner alone. Rumor has it that can contribute to logic board failure when the case flexes, causing the graphics chip to come loose from the logic board. If you're picking it up in your left hand (as I often do mine), pick it up in the center under the trackpad.
Good luck. Let us know how things go.

MOVED: Explain what just happened - Dead Video resurrected

This topic has been moved to AMD64 nVidia boards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=121936.0

Hello!
I know I shouldn't but I like to guess:
- The graphics card fell out enough to...
- You were completely loaded when you put the memory sticks in.
- Don't know if there is a power cable for this card, but that might be a little "jerky".
- What you thought was a problem with the g. card, wasn't really, though every test you made suggested that.

2011 Macbook Pro Overheating *VIDEO*

Well, I must say that I am really disappointed with the current 2011 Macbook pro lineup. This was my first Mac, I must say that I was really excited to finally own one. As I started using it, I noticed how hot the laptop was getting and how loud the fans were. While I was typing a simple E-mail, my palms were getting really hot and was a very uncomfortable feeling. I've been around friends who have own previous models and all have been very quiet and also fairly cool.
I started to get curious so I started reading the temps and it was a staggering 90c degrees! This was just while web browsing, having iTunes loaded and just doing normal day to day stuff. I immediately went online and did a Google search for "2011 Macbook Pro Overheating". I come to find out that it is a common problem. What was most disappointing to me was the fact that Apple is fully aware of this problem and has disabled Turbo Boost on the 13.3" Core i7 while running Bootcamp. So technically speaking, your better off buying the Core i5 model as it will run faster.
I decided to return the laptop, I feel it's deceiving to buy a product that really doesn't perform at it's full potential (It's like buying a Ferrari and only be able to go 60MPH). My batter life was also terrible, I was lucky if I got 3.5 hours under normal web browsing. I think this had a lot to do with the fact that the fan kept spinning at full speed every 2 minutes.
I hope this post doesn't come off as a flame, but rather constructive criticism on Apple's design to improve their products. I truly believe that Apple needs to redesign their Macbook Pro lineup to accept modern processors that run a lot hotter compared to when the Macbook Pro was first introduced. The fact that it has no ventilation in the bottom like every computer out there poses a huge problem with newer processors. I understand the aesthetics portion of the design, but I would much rather have a few small vent holes to keep the processor running cool and maintain a longer life for the hardware.
Lastly, before anyone say's that I got a "defective" one I want to say that this was my 2nd 2011 Macbook Pro as the first one was returned due to the same problems. Here is my video of my experience - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_azMBStJnY

I am having a similar problem. Bought MacBook Pro 17" 16 months ago and after about 9 months, routinely, daily, but no particular time I got a black screen suddenly.
(This is running Windows 7 all the time.)
So daily it has been doing this except for a 3 week visit to Europe ... weird. Yet while in Europe no change in usage. Software or hardware. Except that in US I have it plugged often into a bigger monitor. And sometimes have lid closed but not for the past month while being back.
Return to US and within 2 weeks, suddenly black screen of death anytime during the day, keyboard in use or not.
Called Apple finally yesterday ... they need to know if it happens under Apple IOS. No idea. So for 1 1/2 days ran Apple and did nothing! No black screen.
But what I have noticed is that when it does go black the bodyis HOT!!! Especially between the screen hinge and F keys to the left.
Today I did two more things ... installed gotomypc to see if when it goes black if the laptop is functional, just dead video. I will try to remote in when it goes "dead".
Also I put a load of coins on the laptop where it gets hot to absorb the heat and do they ever!
One thing ... the first time I ever saw this black screen symptom it RECOVERD after 3-4 seconds and gave off an error message like
“Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” error.
So based on researching this, it sounds like the video card needs replacing OR a driver update OR a bath in cold water?

Hardware or software issue causing purple lines & no boot...

I was watching a movie on my Mac Pro (2006) and suddenly the video stopped and purple lines went all over parts of the screen. I couldn't do anything, not even a force quit, I was forced to turn off the power.
Upon restart, the Apple logo is showing the same purple lines, though the grey background was unaffected. After the loading, the logo disappears and then I get a cursor and a beachball and nothing else. Mouse input works, but otherwise the computer does nothing.
I was able to do a safe boot and it works, but the purple lines still remain.
Anyone else have this issue? Does it sound like hardware or software?
I'm probably gonna transfer files and just reinstall snow leopard. I'm hoping it's not a dead video card or something. If that's the case, then it's just become a craigslist special... maybe $250?lol
Any input/help is much appreciated.
WHat

Actually, I have a Late 2011 Macbook Pro Quad Core Sandy Bridge that's mostly been sitting in my safe since I bought it in 2011 (insurance replacement form a Core 2 Duo era Macbook Pro that was stolen).
That thing has always run circles around the Mac Pro. It may run at a slower clock speed, but everything about the Sandy Bridge Core i7 is superior to the now severely obsolete Woodcrest Xeons
It's definitely served me well, it was my first Intel Mac, I moved from a Powerbook G4 1.5ghz to this, and it was amazingly fast, even running Adobe CS2 in Rosetta. But lately, for me it's been getting slower and slower. Any websites with flash are slow as molasses. I can't even make it through an episode of a show on the History or A&E websites without the last segment being a slideshow.
I've recently switched to the Chrome browser, it's helped in usability, but it's still not ideal.
I'll wait for a good deal on a 7300GT on eBay to get it back up and running. Still, I really like iCloud and all the integration that comes with the latest Mac OS releases, so it really is time for me to start using my modern Macs more. I was already heading in this direction. It's been a good system, but it's time has passed. I'm already moving my iTunes HD to my Macbook Pro, next I gotta get the files off of the Mac Pro onto an external.
Maybe I'll just keep it around as a Rosetta system since that's the one area where my Macbook Pro falls short. I still use PPC apps once in awhile.lol

Mac Pro 2008 with 8800 GT, hard freezes with screen savers/OpenGL. You too?

I have been experiencing random intermittent hard crashes of my "early 2008" model 8-core Mac Pro. Now I have finally found an easy reproducible test case (see below), and hope others will try it and post the results. This is a video-driver related crash that I have now duplicated with two different video cards.
The symptom is that my screen randomly freezes. The mouse moves, but there's no way to use the Mac[1]. Holding the Power button to force the Mac to shutdown is the only way out.
Usually, this occurs when I get to my office in the morning, or after the gym. That's because the screen saver is running. I found that the screensaver, other OpenGL/3D type applications, are what triggers this bug.
The bug seems to be with the graphics driver. Immediately before the freeze, messages like this are printed in the system log:
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception!
status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: 0000000c
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: 00200000 0000502d 00000470 00000000
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: 00000482 000002ac 00000003 00000003
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 01be0003
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception!
status = 0xffff info32 = 0x3 = Fifo: Unknown Method Error
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: 0000000b
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception!
status = 0xffff info32 = 0x3 = Fifo: Unknown Method Error
Other errors like these also appear (the actual log output volume is too large for this forum):
Mar 26 21:15:15 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0x6 = Fifo: Parse Error
Mar 26 18:34:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
Anyway, finally I found on another thread about a similar issue[2], a recommendation to run Folding@Home program to trigger the freeze. They were talking about another Mac model, but sure enough, it triggers my problem every time. I downloaded the client[3], installed it, and then launched the app which gets put in the Applications folder. It doesn't even finish bouncing once in the dock before the Mac Pro freezes.
This is not a bug specific to Folding@Home; juding from the log messages and the effect, this is exactly the same crash that is intermittently triggered by the default Mac OS X screensavers (I use Arabesque, but I think any OpenGL screen saver does it). It's just that running Folding@Home is an easier way to trigger the bug than leaving your screensaver running for hours.
So, that is pretty unfortunate, right? I mean, not only can my new Mac Pro not sleep without losing all unsaved data (yes, I have the reboot-instead-of-wake problem[4], too, but that is another issue...) but it also crashes at random whenever the screen saver runs for a while, or somebody uses OpenGL programs. I have set my machine to never use the screen saver, but still.
So, first and foremost, my question for other 2008 Mac Pro owners with the 8800 video card is: does your Mac puke all over itself when you launch Folding@Home?
I just found it a little bit hard to believe that every Mac owner of the most expensive new Mac and the higher end video card will have these crashes. It could be, but it seemed far-fetched. So I tried some troubleshooting:
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1.) I considered that I had a bad video card, so I got another GeForce 8800 GT and installed that. Still crashed.
2.) I disconnected my second monitor, and tried it with only one monitor. Still crashed.
3.) I booted from the pristine boot disk my Mac shipped with (10.5.1). Still crashed.
4.) I reduced the resolution on my 30" Cinema display to 800x600. Still crashed.
5.) Just to stave off the usual chorus of "try zapping your PRAM" posts, I zapped the PRAM. Of course, this did nothing (I don't think this has really fixed a problem since the 1990s...). Anyway, it still crashed.
6.) In doing all these tests, I disconnected all USB/FireWire peripherals.
7.) My Mac is totally up-to-date with Software Update as of Thu, Mar 27, 2008. Mac OS X 10.5.2.
I don't want to return this Mac to Apple; it is wicked fast and that really helps me with my work. But, the frequent crashing really is a productivity-killer.
So: does every 2008 Mac Pro owner with an 8800 GT have this problem?
(Note: there are lots of similar problems with other Macs and the new Mac OS X 10.5... I hope to specifically address this particular model and crash in this thread.)
If not, I will go to the next extreme step: pulling out some of my RAM. I have 12GB of RAM, and it all seems to work fine, no parity errors or anything. But I know sometimes problems don't happen unless there's "too much" RAM, "too high" resolution, and so on. But I would like to hear from others before I go banging on my precious DIMMs and riser cards.
Thanks for any information!
The next step will be to determine if this is just another unfortunate defect that affects ALL 2088 Mac Pros (in which case I would want to keep my fast Mac and wait for fixed drivers), or if perhaps just a subset of them have defective video cards that cause the driver to crash in this way (in which case I would want a replacement).
---------- NOTES: ----------
[1]: I can connect via SSH on the command line to the Mac. However, the GUI environment seems borked; opening apps or trying to gracefully quit them via AppleScript either does not work or really hard freezes everything, such that SSH no longer works either.
[2]: A similar (but perhaps different) issue affecting notebooks is discussed here, and there are some people with Mac Pros, too: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6786960
[3]: The Folding @ Home client, which can be used to trigger this bug, can be gotten here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
[4]: The severe defect affecting many (most?) 2008 Mac Pro machines' ability to sleep without losing data is discussed in this other thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1353551

Hello guys, thank you for the replies.
I do have more data at this point.
ujeezy: Those posts on MacNN and others like them did give some clues.
Jon BWFC: I think you are (partly) right that it's (partly) an issue with the driver. But I have confirmed with a fair degree of certainty in my case that it is a hardware issue too, likely with the video card and not the Mac Pro itself.
cmcom: I think it sounds like you problem is different than the one we're talking about (although who knows, the driver could be causing that too). The freeze we are seeing locks up the whole Mac, and no application crash report is produced.
I had another GeForce 8800 card, so I went through some exhaustive troubleshooting. I tested each card, installed in each of the 16x slots, booting from either my normal 10.5.2 boot disk or a clone of the pristine virgin system disk that shipped with the Mac, and tried to see if the Mac would crash.
Unfortunately this was harder than it seems, because:
a.) both my GeForce 8800 cards appear to be defective, but in different ways (see [1] and [2] below)
b.) In my testing, I thought I was seeing the crash sometimes, but later I discovered that there are different ways to make the Mac crash like this. That is, there are bugs in Mac OS X 10.5.x (probably in the NVIDIA driver) that cause similar crashes, and these bugs occur on all Mac Pro units and even other Mac models, without any hardware defects. Unfortunately, the Folding@home exercises one such bug.[3]
So the upshot is, all those times I was using Folding@home to test this issue were bogus, because Folding@home crashes any Mac Pro with the NVIDIA card, and crashes MacBook Pro machines with NVIDIA chips as well.
Argh! So I had to retest. It took a couple of days but I found another reliable way to crash my Mac Pro, more quickly than just leaving the screensaver on for a day or two: run this OpenGL virtual fish tank simulator[4] for 2-3 minutes. Unlike the Folding@home test, this did not crash any of my other Macs, and after exhaustive testing I found that it ONLY crashed the Mac Pro with one of the GeForce 880 cards installed, and not the other one. This was regardless of what slot it was installed in or what boot disk was used.
Whew! So, I concluded that indeed, there is a hardware defect in one of my GeForce 8800 cards which causes the machine to lock up. [2]
What made this problem much harder to deal with was the fact that Mac OS X (specifically the graphics driver parts of the OS, perhaps NVIDIA-specific) crashes with these same symptoms in other cases too. Like when you run Folding@home, or in some of these cases people are talking about with their MacBook Pro machines.
So, when there is a bona-fide hardware defect, it is really hard to isolate. (It took me like four days.)
The thing is, the defective NVIDIA card that crashes the Mac[2] was a REPLACEMENT card for the 8800 card that shipped with my Mac. I called Apple about the video artifacts I was seeing and they replaced the card.
I am now running the original card (and suffering the ugly video artifacts, but no crashes). At my own expense, I ordered an ATI card (the RADEON HD 2600 XT) and I will install that.
I hope someday to have my Mac work without graphics glitches or crashes. For now, operating (mostly) without crashes will have to do.
The original problem with this Mac continues, though: the video doesn't work correctly; it starts displaying visual artifacts after 1-72 hours of use[1]. That could either be because:
a.) a hardware defect in that video card
b.) a software problem with the driver/OS
c.) a hardware defect in the Mac itself
I strongly suspect A, but hopefully my buying a different card and testing with that will help further isolate what is wrong.
I am marking this thread "solved" because the specific issue I originally posted about has been resolved: the GeForce 8800 card causing the crashes is defective, and using another card fixes that issue.
[1]: The original GeForce 8800 card that shipped with my Mac Pro exhibited annoying-but-not-deadly video artifacts, which can be seen here: http://masonmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/bogusvideoartifacts.jpg
[2]: Apple replaced the video card, and that is when my deadly video-corruption-plus-frozen-Mac crash problem began. A screenshot example of that problem can be seen here: http://masonmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/crashedmac_pro_akashitball.jpg
[3]: The red herring in this case was the Mac OS X bug (seemingly specific to NVIDIA-equipped Macs including Mac Pro and MacBook Pro) that causes a very similar full system crash. This bug can easily be triggered by running the Folding@home version "6.10beta2" demo application. That is a serious bug, and since my employer is a Mac software company I reported this bug to Apple via the official channel. It is Apple bug number 5830772.
[4]: The OpenGL fish tank simulator I found, which would trigger the system crash caused by my defective 8800 video card (but would not crash any other Mac, or crash my Mac Pro with the other 8800 video card installed) can be found at: http://uri.cat/software/Fish/

Hard disk not detected by bios

Hi, I have a CQ50-107NR and when press the power button the hard drive light indicator is flashing, but the bios or windows does not detect the hard disk, I have tried several hard disk that work in my other computers, I have been reparing pcs for more than 15 years and am very stumped by this problem. In my experience if the hard drive indicator is blinking that indicates that the laptop has detected it. But for this one not to detect it is confussing. I am repaing the laptop for someone, had to fix a problem with it over heating. If anyone has any ideas on this or had a similar problem please let me know.

It is not that uncommon on that series of laptops with AMD processor and nVidia GeForce graphics. The laptop is a close cousin of the dv6000 series which had a lot of issues back in the 2008 time frame. The chips on the motherboard will not keep a complete connection due to manufacturing flaws and it shows up as disappearing peripherals or dead video. Wireless cards, hard drives, optical drives all can stop working. The only fix is a motherboard repair or replacement.

Can I boot a pulled hard drive from a Mac Pro on an external dock?

I have a 2008ish Mac Pro that has a dead video card and a few other problems. Luckily, the hard drive is still functioning. Is it possible to pull the drive and boot it using an external dock in order to image the drive so I can use it on another computer?

Yes.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means an external drive. Source means the docked drive.

You Don't Have Permission To Access The Requested Resource

Well I'm a guy that watches anime,a lot of it.I was basically watching an anime and finished the first season and I got to the 3rd episode of the second season but I can't watch it.What I get is the "play" icon over the video but when I press it I get the error I wrote above(if it's of any help this is the link http://www.animeflavor.com/node/18020 ). The error just appeared randomly and now I can't watch any other video on that site. Any ideas on what might have caused this?
EDIT: Well I forgot to write this at the beginning,it might be usefull.The video player used on the site us AUEngine and here's a screenshot to show you what it looks like
Message was edited by: NeverFaiding

I went to the site on my PC and it is Flash, which iOS devices do not support.
To check to see if it was Fash because of the PC browser saying it was a PC, I went there on the my iPad, Same, it is was Flash.
You can try contact the site but I could not find out how to contact them. I would try filling out a dead video report
http://www.animeflavor.com/node/4327

Safari "you don't have permission to access the resource"

I'm developing a website in html5 and I'm using <audio> tag and a mp3 remote http://xxx/xxx.mp3 into a "src" attribute.
<audio id="audio" autoplay controls src="http://xxx/xxx.mp3"></audio>
When I open this website in Safari on my Macbook, it works but when i'm openning on my iphone, it doesn't work.
The player is loading and show me the alert: "You don't have permission to access the resource".
It works emulating iphone on Safari Developer Menu on my Macbook too.
What am I doing wrong?
Can you help me?

I went to the site on my PC and it is Flash, which iOS devices do not support.
To check to see if it was Fash because of the PC browser saying it was a PC, I went there on the my iPad, Same, it is was Flash.
You can try contact the site but I could not find out how to contact them. I would try filling out a dead video report
http://www.animeflavor.com/node/4327

Dead video? Ultra30 Creator3D

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