Graphics Card Faulty?

Im in photoshop. and i make a gradient. i.e dark grey to black. It displays it as solid lines. Its not Photoshop because if i take a screenshot of it and send it to some one its fine. or is it the display. THanks LUke
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If you only have one cable between the display and the CPU, and only one connection at the CPU, that's the ADC. It carries power, DVI video and USB to the display.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/cdb_videoprts.html
If the cable splits before it gets to the CPU, then you have a DVI-compatible display.
All but one of the "Acrylic" displays are ADC. The very first "Cinema" display - 22" - was DVI (with a separate power supply), but looks a lot like the ADC Cinema Displays (20" & 23").

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Is Nvidia FX-570 also a faulty graphics card?

After ordered T61P-AV8 with Nvidia FX-570 graphics card, I was told that all "G84/86 gpu are bad". Since Dell has already provided the BIOS upgrades. Of course BIOS upgrade is some kind of "half-a**" pitch, but it at least proves the faults in mentioned gpus.
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NVIDIA has not commented very clearly on which the bad batches were to the public and probably never will, so it's only the company bigheads who know what's really going on.
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Faulty monitor vs faulty graphics card?

This is what my monitor looks like when on this screen saver. Not actually that red as I'm typing now though this screen saver really shows it up.
Please check the link
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1396742
Thanks

Don't use Flurry!
Boot in Safe Mode and reboot.
What graphic card do you use? for that matter, what model mac pro too.
I think some basics like booting from an older version of OS X to see if recent changes.
How is the heat on your system? what does Hardware Monitor say for memory banks?
help us if you want us to help you though with details and not just the obvious symptom.
Might reseat video card, check cables, check aux power assuming it uses one.
And then reset the SMC. Only press the power button for 10 seconds too when it is unplugged in addition to what Apple directs for SMC Reset.

My graphic card failed but passes the recall test - surely Apple would replace it? How wrong can you be!

Even though I had read about the product recall on some iMacs, mine had never had an issue, but to be safe, the plan was to take it to an Apple store to have them test and replace it.
A week ago, on occasion, the screen suddenly started going completely gray, everything else seemed to be working fine, and any apps running would continue to do so. Without being able to see the screen, the only options was to power it down, run any diagnostic test and start normally. It passed pro tools tests, with no warnings so I thought it could have been a software issue. After many restarts without anything else plugged in, the iMac appeared to function for maybe a day or so, but gray screen whenever it wanted to.
So I called Apple, they told me to get it into a service centre, and they would do further tests. Whilst on the phone to the engineer, my iMac with the gray screen suddenly refused to power back up. The engineers tell me that the graphic card fails any benchmarking tests with corruption and the same gray screen issue, so it looks promising yes? No. The specific tests that the machine must fail for the recall - passed.
Having spent almost an hour on the phone to a Apple senior advisor today, he tells me that it is not covered by the recall !!
The machine is one of the matching serial numbered machines in the recall, it has suddenly developed a graphic card issue that leaves the machine unusable, it suddenly started having this problem within weeks of the recall being announced - It has the faulty card in it, it has the fault - yet it does not qualify?
Can someone please tell me what I could have done to get this card replaced without the estimated £250 charge to get my machine running again.
I am a die hard Apple enthusiast, I have converted everyone I have been in contact with to purchase from them for their legendary customer services and yet feel perplexed as to what I should do next.
My first reaction is to raise a big fuss about the situation at an Apple store, but I can't blame them too much if my machine does not match the recall criteria - but come on, it can't be a coincident that this card has failed now, can it?
What do I do next. I don't want to take my machine over to proper Apple store and raise a fuss, that would be counter productive. But really Apple
Anyone have a suggestion - would you buy another iMac that could have the same problem and get the same response?
To any Apple engineers out there who can look at a case number my ref number is 500592345, apparently there is a lot of info in there, but nothing that will help me!

Apple engineers do not participate here. The only replies you will normally get are from people who are, like me, just fellow users, and there's nothing any of us can do to intervene in this matter.
If Apple says that your system is not covered by the recall, there's not much you can do. You can try taking your system to an Apple Store and politely - do not "make a fuss"; polite but gently insistent is much more likely to get you useful results - ask for assistance. Or you can call Apple tech support, ask to speak with customer relations, and explain the situation to them and request coverage under the recall program.
If all that fails, though, then you're probably at a dead end and will need to pay for the service if you want it done.
Regards.

T61 with Advanced Dock and PCI-e graphics card?

Purchased T61 laptop with NVidia Quadro NVS 140M graphics (Type: 7662-CTO).
Purchased ThinkPad Advanced Dock for use with PCI-e graphics card for multi-monitors. (Type: 2553)
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Purchased PCI-e graphics card: NVidia Quadro NVS 440 1x
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Next assumed bad card. Tried different card. ATI FireMV 2400 1x. Card fits in dock perfectly. Laptop still fails to boot with card in dock.
Called Lenovo. Asked for a list of cards that will work in the dock. Tech support did not know. I asked if anyone at Lenovo has ever seen a T61 laptop work with the Advanced Dock and a PCI-e graphics card. Tech said no. Issue has been escalated to engineering. I still do not have an answer as to which PCI-e cards, if any, will work in the Advanced Dock.
Help please.
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nVidia Quadro NVS 140M graphics Advanced Dock (2503)

subterFUSE wrote:
Excellent!
...snip...
I will look into these Matrox cards. Hopefully this will be the solution.
Message Edited by subterFUSE on 12-05-2007 02:55 PM
I spent some time surfing through product release letters and data sheets for the grafic cards offered by Lenovo, no where, as far as I could see, does it say that they are compatible with the advanced dock. What is also interesting, they say for PCs they are only tested for 2 screens, but you found the document MIGR-67464 where they show how to configure 4. [confused smiley]
It looks as though you and RBS have found possible solutions for 4 screens, congrats to all
However, I don't want to be the "party pooper" here, but why doesn't your T61 boot in the dock with graphics card? This is still puzzling me, and to be honest I haven't as yet been able to come up with a reason or probable cause as to why
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Hello, this is my first post and if anyone can offer any help with my problem I would greatly appreciate it. Sorry for the long description, but I want to get all of the facts out.
Its a bit convoluted, but here goes...
I was having a problem with one of my G5 computers and I thought at first that the problem was the graphics card. So I bought an ATI Radeon 9600XT card on eBay. Before that card arrived, I determined that the problem with the computer was a faulty firewire card, I replaced that and this computer now runs fine.
After the Radeon card was delivered, I put it in another G5 (1.6 processor) being that it was an upgrade from the nVidia GeForce FX 5200 that was already in the computer. After about a week, this computer crashed and crashed repeatedly. So I switched the card back to the original nVidia GeForce FX 5200, but it still kept crashing.
I then initialized the drive and reinstalled 10.4. This did not solve the problem, the computer keeps crashing with the screen that says "this computer needs to restart..." same as before. I then swapped this nVidia GeForce FX 5200 card with another identical nVidia card that I have from a 3rd G5. This not only did not stop the crashes, but caused this third G5 to crash.
When I start the G5 1.6 up in safe boot, the computer does not crash and will run stable.
I really would appreciate any advice.

Ok I ran AHT on both machines and everything passed on both. The G5 #1 (1.6) restarted and ran ok (in and out of sleep mode) overnight. When I shut down, the screen went dark and all seemed well, but the computer never actually "shut off".
Anyway I thought that if I could pull the panic logs from each machine that it may be helpful for someone to diagnose just exactly what is going on. So here are the panic logs for each G5.
G5 #1 (1.6)
Wed Jan 26 00:01:12 2011
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000A30B0025 PC=0x000000000003FFD4
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x5C3BB780)
PC=0x0003FFD4; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0xA30B0025; DSISR=0x00200000; LR=0x0003FFBC; R1=0x4428BA10; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00000003 0x0002BDCC 0x002FC474 0x002FC61C 0x00303E28 0x00303F9C
0x002DA43C 0x002DA3B4 0x002E9ACC 0x002EB94C 0x0008C248 0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC
0xA1B1C1D3
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFE240
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x5C3BB780)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x6E264280)
PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x02158070; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xBFFFE240; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000954F8 0x00095A10 0x00026898 0x000A8204 0x000ABB80
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x5C3BB780)
PC=0x0003FFD4; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0xA30B0025; DSISR=0x00200000; LR=0x0003FFBC; R1=0x4428BA10; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00000003 0x0002BDCC 0x002FC474 0x002FC61C 0x00303E28 0x00303F9C
0x002DA43C 0x002DA3B4 0x002E9ACC 0x002EB94C 0x0008C248 0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC
0xA1B1C1D3
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFE240
Exception state (sv=0x6E264280)
PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x02158070; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xBFFFE240; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
G5 #2 (Dual 1.8)
Wed Feb 2 15:18:00 2011
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000A3010025 PC=0x000000000003FFD4
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x5D0D6280)
PC=0x0003FFD4; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0xA3010025; DSISR=0x00200000; LR=0x0003FFBC; R1=0x4521BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00000000 0x0002BDCC 0x002B1B68 0x002BABD8 0x002BAFA4 0x002C25BC
0x002C268C 0x002EA2C0 0x0008ADB8 0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC 0x2F2F2F2F
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF007FC50
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x5D0D6280)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x5D6F1500)
PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x009F5564; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xF007FC50; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000954F8 0x00095A10 0x00026898 0x000A8204 0x000ABB80
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x5D0D6280)
PC=0x0003FFD4; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0xA3010025; DSISR=0x00200000; LR=0x0003FFBC; R1=0x4521BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00000000 0x0002BDCC 0x002B1B68 0x002BABD8 0x002BAFA4 0x002C25BC
0x002C268C 0x002EA2C0 0x0008ADB8 0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC 0x2F2F2F2F
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF007FC50
Exception state (sv=0x5D6F1500)
PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x009F5564; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xF007FC50; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
Again, I appreciate any advice...hope this will be of help in diagnosing the problem..

Is there a Replacement Program for 2009 iMacs with MXM Graphics Cards?

I have an iMac 24" Early 2009 with the Nvidia GeForce GT 120 256MB MXM graphics card that is freezing and crashing over-and-over, especially when I'm away and it's not connected to my 2nd display! Odd. I've done the usual (cleaned the iMac inside, run fsck, SMC reset, PRAM reset, repair permissions from boot USB, disconnected all peripherals, changed mice and keyboards, changed the HD, reinstalled the OS, run Onyx and so on) and finally decided that it's a faulty graphics card that only a replacement will fix. When I'm home it's more stable when connected via a Displayport DVI adapter to DVI cable to a 24" Dell display. When standalone (like when traveling with my iMac for long stints out of town) it's unusable. It won't run for longer than 30 minutes, often not even 10 minutes, then I get screen artifacts and freezes and then have to fsck to repair the drive before running it again. Only running it in Safe Mode will allow it to run reliably.
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New Graphics Card won't get past HP splash screen.

A customer bought in an Hp Pavilion P6755a, well out of warrenty with a failing graphics card. The customer does a lot of gaming so we sugested they repalce the3 graphics card, and get something a bit more powerfull at the sametime. We settled on an Gigabyte GTX 750TI, as it has resonable power at a low price, but more importanly it doesnt require extra power.
Popped in the new card, but the computer won't get past the HP splash screen, can't enter the BOIS either.
Trouble shooting I have already tried
*Installed a differnt card (GTX 230) which worked fine
*Tried the GTX750Ti in another computer to check it wasn't faulty (The other computer was even older than this one by several years)
*Tried a more powerfull PSU (it worked fine in a another computer with only a 300W PSU)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello @RileyNZL,
I understand that when you install the GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics card in your HP Pavilion p6755a Desktop PC it will not boot up. The reason for this is because your motherboard only supports PCI Express 1.0 and the graphics card is a PCI Express 3.0. Theoretically, the card should work, but there is a break in the support chain at around PCI Express version 2.1 where PCI Express 1.0 is no longer compatible. I suspect that your other computer does not have PCI Express 1.0.
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T500 Graphic Card and Fingerprint

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Problem 1: I read, that all T500 have 2 Graphic cards. Well, if I run PC-Doctor it shows me "Graphic cards: 2" but at Graphic cards it just shows me the Intel X4500HD. If I try to switch at the battery icon in the bar on the right corner, there is no way to switch any graphic card. Is it possible, that there is just one Graphic card inside, the Intel x4500HD? Is it then possible to install another card to play Fallout 3 for example? How could this be done and which one would be suggested? What costs are estimated?
Problem 2:
There is no way to get the fingerprint reader working. If I want to start the software, it prohibits me from entering, saying there is some problem. If I start it with admin, it doesn't work either. Everytime I start the system, after a while the window pops up, that Autostart blocked the fingerprintsoftware from activating.
How could I manage this problem?
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Still no windows 7 in my letterbox and still the money ripped off.
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ThinkStation S10 problem with Nvidia GTS450 Graphics Card

Hi,
I have recently purchased this Thinkstation and decided that I wanted to change the graphics card as I will mostly be using it for media (ie DVD and Bluray on my LCD TV).
I purchased a Nvidia GT 440 originally but could not get anything to display through it and recieved 3 beeps (1 long and 2 short). I confirmed with the company I bought it from that it should be compatible, and had it tested by them to check the card was not faulty.
So I sent that back for a refund and bought a Nvidia GTS 450 thinking that as it takes separate power rather than through the motherboard maybe if it was an issue with power it might work but again got the 3 beeps and no display.
Both cards I tried also at the same time as the Quadro FX370 but still got no display even though the fans were turning.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Solved!
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First and foremost, the GTS450 is not a supported card. GeForce cards are not supported in Workstation class systems. This isn't just a Lenovo statement, but also the same response you'll get from Nvidia as well.
That being said, you're likely running into a ROM space issue in BIOS. With a known working card, try going into setup and disabling features such as PXE boot and the 2nd ethernet (assuming you're not using either of these). I know on the 20 series (non- Eseries) we made some BIOS optimizations that would sometimes allow cards like this to at least make it through POST successfully if you free up space by disabling unused features. Not sure if this same optimization made it into the S10/D10 series BIOS or not, but it's worth a shot.

Qosmio X300-01U Graphic card problem

Hi
I had for some time problem with my computer constantly closing without reason. (for me at that time at least) And i learned later that it was due to the graphic card "failsafe" who turn the computer off to prevent overheat. As my computer was all clean and used on a normal hard surface i find it strange at start but i dealt with it.
Now i got a bigger problem, since a month my graphic card is just bugging without reason (Black screen and buggy sound without the possibility of doing anything except force a restart) on different games when i'm doing specific action in them. (Like opening the cellphone in GTA 4 or saving my game in Borderlands) I tried to solve this problem by doing a lot of things like updating bios and drivers, doing defrag, HDD scan, registry scan, using different drivers (those from Nvidia web site) I even tried to restore my computer to factory settings but the problem still.
The only possible option left for me is an hardware problem coming from the video card. As my one year warranty is over since nearly 3 months i want to know if it is possible to find a new graphic card for my laptop (just that part) and maybe even to know if it is compatible with other cards like a 9800M instead of my 9700M. (I'm located in Canada)
Or if ever you have a miracle solution i will be glad to ear it too.
If ever you want more information on my computer situation, just ask for it i will answer as best as i can.

Hi buddy,
I dont know if another graphic card would be compatible with your notebook. I think you should ask this an authorized service provider to get more informations about this upgrade.
By the way: Are you sure that the graphic card is causing this problem? If you can notice this problem with factory settings, its a hardware problem Thats fact in my opinion. But to exchange the faulty part the notebook should be checked from an authorized service provider.
Thats all what I can say but I think an ASP can help you more in this case as the user forum here. ;)

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