Display or Graphics Card Problem

Hey all,
Recently I've notice little spots apprearing discolored on the display. And by little I mean 1 pixel, but there are many of them. They usually appear on the grey frame of windows, as well when I'm watching a dvd they appear on the movie screen. If I move a window around, larger groupings of these spots will appear. I am thinking it might be a problem with the GPU, I first noticed when my fan was spinning at a rather high speed, I'm thinking the GPU might have overheated. But I just started my powerbook after leaving it off for the night, and it's still happening. Any thoughts ?

One of our users is experiencing the same problem.
The problem has started today for no apparent reason.
Ran AppleJack, installed the latest update (10.4.4) didn't solve the problem.
He's using a dual G5 2 GHz with Apple's LCD display.
Any suggestion would be appreciated!

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but disappear too fast before a screen dump...
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Yes, only my boss informed me that they have to be display ports, he didn't tell me why.
I'm unable to buy from ebay or craiglist either & my local vendor doesn't have any in stock.

Quite a mouthful I know! but I need these specific graphic cards, ideally with next day delivery:
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Try a Target disk:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413
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Hello Boo1993,
It appears that you're having an issue with the display/graphics of your notebook and getting something similar to the screenshot posted. I will try to assist you with this.
As you mention that this occurs before even loading into Windows. I would like you to start by testing with an external screen. This is to try and get a working display to troubleshoot from.
If you cannot, then give these documents a read over.
Display Quality Issues
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If these are not able to help, or you cannot do any troubleshooting I would suggest contacting support for repair/replacement options.
HP Technical Support, North America 1-800-474-6836. For all other regions click here.
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I'm supporting a Dell Precision Workstation Laptop M6600 Ship Date: 31 August 2011. The workstation has been experiencing re-occuring graphic card failures. The system's original configuration was
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 - 64-bit Enterprise Edition
LCD
VCV1F1   Liquid Crystal Display, 17.3FHD, Light Emitting Diode, Low Voltage Differential Signaling, AG, Z, Length/Long, 2
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Video BIOS = 013.012.000.014040357
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The laptop has developed the same problem again. Soon as I switched it on over the weekend, the screen split into two and then it froze and then there were stripes on the screen. I shut it down and switched it on again, hoping this will work but the screen just remained black.
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This thread explores a possible combination of LCD Panel Manufacturer and Graphics Card Manufacturer/ Model
- http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/p/19437928/20058048.aspx#20058048

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Update Disaster. Graphics card problems.

(yes, MORE problems!)
Ok I dont really think its a disaster but it sure fells like it.
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Sysmquickmenu quit unexpectadly.
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AND: sh:line 1 command not found. Operation not permitted.
Also my itunes says its version 7.1.1 but the new features are not visable.
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The screen color is very dark, i notice when i exit a Hi-Def game the color returns to normal. So when i start up i enter the game and then exit, to see properly.
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No display switched graphics card

So at work I've used two different towers--a 2007 Mac Pro, and lately a 2009 Mac Pro tower. I made the switch because the 07, while generally decently fast, was having some harddrive errors and making me a bit nervous about how long it would last.
The ideal swap was to move my user to the 2009 tower, which has better specs in most everything BUT graphics card--and then swap the graphics cards. The 2007 had a ATI Radeon x1920 xt and the 2009 came with a Nvidia GeForce GT120.
My coworker and I swapped the graphics cards and put the Radeon in the 2009 and the Nvidia in the 2007 and booted both machines--but neither had a display. The machines booted up, just... black, no display connection at all. We switched back to make sure we hadn't broken anything--worked just fine.
The 2009 machine already had drivers for both brands--Nvidia and ATI. I tried researching online but the general consensus among the Apple crowd is that the machine should already have the drivers, and at least display should be a given?
Seems like this is a simple problem! I must be missing a really basic step, simply because I've not done it before, don't know the process, and can't find a specific tutorial online.
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The card you mentioned (Radeon X1920) is not offically supported on any model Mac Pro:
Mac Pro (all models): Graphics card compatibility between models
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