Graphs turn solid black

I have a G5 iMac, and I just had my logic board replaced under a recall. Now when I try to view 3d charts in numbers, they turn solid black. I can resize them and they'll look fine while I'm dragging the box around, but when I drop it it turns black again. When I save the file, the icon shows the black graph as well. What gives? Should I take my mac back into the Apple store?

Well, it turns out it seems to be OK after a reboot. I'll keep it for a little while to see if it happens again, especially since 10.5.2 will have Leopard video driver updates coming out shortly afterwards.

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Yeah they didn't unfortunately. These issues started up within the first 5 minutes of upgrading to Yosemite, across two of our computers.
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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
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