Is this a video card or other problem?

Hi,
I have a G3 B&W rev2, 450 MHz, 704 RAM, DVD-ROM system.
I have two hard disks. One the original 6 GB that runs 9.2.2,
the other is a 100 GB second internal hard drive that contains
4 partitions. One with no OS installed, one with a backup of
the 9.2.2 system, one with 10.4.0 and one with 10.4.11.
I am having startup problems with the 10.4.11 partition.
When I start up from this partition, I got the normal start up screen and
the little dial - but then instead of going to the blue screen I got 4 black rectangles
across the top of the screen. I could start up from the 10.4.0 partition, the DVD-ROM,
or my 9.2.2 disk. Disk Utility, run from the DVD-ROM or from the 10.4.0 partition, found no problems with the 10.4.11 disk or disk permissions.
Someone mentioned they thought it was a video card problem, but if it were,
would that only affect one startup disk??
I reinstalled the 10.4.11 update and the problem went away for
a month or so, but now I am having similar start-up issues again. I start up, get the
gray apple and the dial, then I get a big black rectangle in the center of the
screen like the one that shows up when the kernal crashes - but with no
text. Again, I can start from the DVD-ROM, the 10.4.0 partition and the drive
with 9.2.2. Disk Utility doesn't find any problems with the disk.
Any ideas on what is going on? I am planning to reinstall the 10.4.11 update
again.
Thanks,
bdennehey

It's not the video card, or you would have problems with the other OS's on the Mac.
It's hard to say what is causing the problem. Do you use the OS 10.4.11 partition more than the others ? If so, the other OS 10.4 partition may experience the same problem if used more.
Have you added RAM lately ? Added any other hardware ?

Similar Messages

Video card, or other problem.

when using the 3D tools in Illustrator, it totally chokes in processing on all but the most basic shapes/paths. it starts, but never finishes. I think the problem may be my video card doesn't have enough capacity. can someone suggest an upgrade? I have a 2x quad 2.26 with 8GB RAM.

Refresh our memory, you don't list what video card you have.
The 2.26 was a "what are they thinking" to me. A 3.2GHz 4 or 6-core.
Want to upgrade graphic card check the Store. Four choices from $150 up (Nvidia Quadro 4000 is $1195 Apple but on Amazon same PNY Mac Pro version is $790).
Apple Graphics Cards

Is this a video card problem?

Hi, all.
I was waking up my MacPro(Late 2006, Quad 2.66) from screen saver and the screen froze.
and it didn't work at all so I forced shutdown and as I restarted,
The screen shows stripe-like patterns and stop proceedig aster the first apple logo disappeared.
I also tried to start in Safe mode, but it happens in the same way.
No key commands works for shut down or restart.
Anyone knows what causes this problem?
Help/comments would be appricated.
You all have a good day! ^^

what OS version are you running?
what video card, seeing you think it might be a factor?
and yes it might. you might want to boot from a backup drive and repair and/or restore the system.

Two video cards at once problem

i just got an eGeForce 9600 GTX card and i put it on my MSI P6N SLI Platinum nvidia motherboard.
There are two PCI 16 Express slots. The card works fine alone but...
What i was hoping to do, was to run my old GeForce 7600 GT at the same time and run
two little monitors off it and then run my hi def tv and bigger monitor off the 9600.
My computer isn't recognizing the 7600...it's in there securely...i've pulled it out put it
back in etc...it was working totally fine before today so the problem isn't with the card...
While reading my book for my motherboard it says that i can't run two video
cards unless they are SLI linked. I don't want SLI...one 9600 is fine for video games. I want
four monitors...Has anyone heard of this? Is there any way around this?
anything I can try in the bios or anything like that? has there been a bios workaround for this
or anything? i've been googling around and found nothing. i've never heard of motherboards
that exclusively do this...what's the point?
..if they have two PCI 16 slots why not let them both work??
I'm running vista 64 bit...
any help soooo appreciated
thanks

Now, the strange thing is: after a few initial issues one of the macs is doing fine. The second one, on the contrary, is a nightmare. Finalcut gives a green screen of death and hangs up suddenly while performing simple operations (like dropping a clip on the timeline).
I'm thinking of trying to replace the two video cards with an older single dual display card, and giving up the fancy lcd monitors (that i bought at vast cost), at least until apple issues an upgrade that adresses the two video card problem. <
If the machines are mechanically equal, it's obviously not the cards. Although you can only be absolutely certain if you swap the cards between machines and see if the green screen issue follows one or both cards.
However, that new LCD display and card combination doesn't have much time in the pipeline so there could be other issues and you're doing the beta testing for all of us. Blaming the reseller is pointless; no one can keep track of all of these issues. We only find out about them only because of reported failures.
You should research the "green screen" here on the forum. I do not recall if there are display or graphics cards issues associated with it. That seems unlikely. IIRC, it appears to be a QT issue.
bogiesan

6600LE *****! Apple please provide an alternative to this POS video card.

Obvisously Apple doesn't care about G5 dual-core owners. Can't buy an upgrade video card. Spent $3000.00+ on a system with a graphics card designed for budget PC's. Someone at Apple should fire the engineers that suggested this card in the system. I would of bought the 7800 GT had it been available at time of purchase. What a crock of crap leaving us hanging with no upgrade options. Aperature runs like *** with this card. Apple get off your lazy ***** and do something about this crap. Show us you care.

Obvisously Apple doesn't care about G5 dual-core owners. Can't buy an upgrade video card. Spent $3000.00+ on a system with a graphics card designed for budget PC's. Someone at Apple should fire the engineers that suggested this card in the system. I would of bought the 7800 GT had it been available at time of purchase. What a crock of crap leaving us hanging with no upgrade options. Aperature runs like *** with this card. Apple get off your lazy ***** and do something about this crap. Show us you care.

TS1424 Getting error -1202 when trying to connect to My Wish List. Says there was an error in the ITunes store and to try again later. Any work arounds for this? I have no other problems accessing anything else.

Getting error -1202 when trying to connect to 'My Wish List" in ITurnes. Says there was an error in the ITunes store and to try again later. Have no other problems connecting or purchasing......

This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.
Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
ls -@Oaen L*/Coo* | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered.
The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.

30" cinema dead: power brick, graphics card, or other problem?

so, everything was going fine, then I hear a power surge beep through my Ups, and my apple 30" display goes black. checked all connections, plugged in a spare monitor. checked and changed power connections, and all other advice from initial troubleshooting. computer seems ok, it shows both the apple cinema display and other monitor are active in the system preferences. but the power brick is cold, and no power is getting to the cinema display.
What are my next steps to see if my power brick has failed or some other problem has arrived?
Thanks in advance.

Determined that one of my internal harddrives p**ped out at the same time. This may indicate a power surge ran through the machine. Apple hardware test hasn't been able to complete testing, it locks up after a few minutes.
I know these monitors and in the under $500 range nowadays, but it has been such an awesome monitor, I would hate to see it die.
How to determine what is wrong with the monitor?

Is this a video card problem on my Equium M40x-230?

I've come to turn on my laptop one morning and I get this nice screen:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4330/image0026d.jpg
Something hardware related is up, im sure of it. Funnily enough I can still use the laptop with a external screen plugged in.
Any suggestions?

> I can still use the laptop with a external screen plugged in.
Then it sounds like an internal display failure.
But do you have this issue only on Windows or on BIOS too?
I think you should go to the nearest authorized service provider. The technicians can order a new internal display and exchange it for.
On the Toshiba website you can search for the nearest:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Find an authorized service provider

Video card or driver problems with an N200, please help!

I have a lenovo 3000 N200, it is really cool, runs even games quite well, including newer ones.
But, is it normal to for the display driver program to freeze out in Warcraft 3? It always does that, when accessing the list of maps in the game and after 3-5 mins during an actual game. It sets the resolution down to 640X480 (from 1280X800) and in 16 color. I have to reset it in order to make it work. Also it does the same in Spore - though after having the driver written for Spore installed, ( which I downloaded from lenovo's site ) I haven't encountered that problem so far. Also Second Life shuts down - thankfully it does not freeze the drivers. I understand that the model I have is not meant for gaming but if it can run Warhammer 40k: Soulstorm at meduim graphic settings (on widescreen) without a lagg I can't understand why it wouldn't be able to handle warcraft 3 - that even an ATi m200 express can handle. I mean an X3100 from Intel must be far more powerful. (Said ATi card laggs with older games like Unreal Tournament)
I have the latest driver - official - and a Win Xp pro Sp2. I always keep my system up to date - save for opsys but so far driver did not need sp3 - and virus clean.
Please help me?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Well, Unreal Tournament 2004 runs flawlessly on max graphics - though simple Unreal Tournament laggs like hell with all possible settings - also, as I said Dawn Of War and it's expansions run well on med graphics. The Suffering Ties That Bind runs also good on highest settings - though there is a bit of degradation compared to my tabletop pc's performance. Disciples 2 ran - of course - well, there were some texture problems with it but Heroes 5 ran quite well even on higher settings (as I mentioned it sometimes blunted down the textures but not always and it ran without a lagg). Alien Versus Predator 2 ran on max graphics, and there was no trouble, save for the aliens' special vision (that white thing that looks as if inverted colors) didn't work - aka was only a black screen - and that the crosshair of the smartgun was only a blank red/green block on the middle of the screen.Oh, and Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour works on highest settings without a lagg, along with Quake 3, and Jedi knight : Academy. It even runs Perfect World on high settings and only laggs in bigger towns - but that also might be because of the tremendous bandwidth usage that occurs. Even Red Alert 3 was able to run, but I would only advise that for RA fanatics, on low settings it was playable. Also, C & C: Tiberium Wars runs better than RA 3 , if you like that it is quite playable and worth a try. As you can see I have put it to it's limits to see what it can endure. Unreal Tournament 3 ran, though was gruesomely degraded and then it gave me the blue screen of death; so I quickly uninstalled that. Other than the forementioned program I had no real problems with the card, but the existing problems are a pain in the ... well we all know how bothering it can be when one is unable to play his/her favourite game (that should really run flawlessly).
Doesn't vista eat up too much of the system resources? A friend of mine was complaining about his n200 that vista is too slow on it and it eats up too much processor/memory.
Also, still no new on videocard front... Asked around if anyone knows, but I am guessing that maybe even Blizzard - referring to my Warcraft problem - shows more compassion to their forums and users than Lenovo, so I'll ask around there too.

MBP bought this October, Video Card issue?

Hello.
I just bought my Macbook Pro about a month or two ago. No complaints so far, except the well-known issue of the keyboard getting very hot when playing games. Usually I put a laptop fan underneath it, so it doesn't get too horrible. Lately, when I start the game World of Warcraft, the screen will sort of freeze up on a distorted image of the beginning screen of the game. You can see the video of me recording the issue right here:
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6616016/17178705
Sometimes it is actually a picture of my character in game distorted with lines through it, and then goes to the normal screen. I also have recently been victim of some lag in game. I am not sure if it is entirely because I have put my video settings in game up a tad, or has to do with this freezing issue like in the video.
Should I take it to Apple... call Apple, what?
Thanks for any help in advance!

Also forgot to post my specs for in game... trying to provide all information I can to help.
Resolution:
24-bit Color, 24-bit Depth. 2x Multisampling.
Vertical Sync: OFF
Triple Buffering: OFF
Hardware Cursor: ON
Reduce Input Lag: OFF
Effects:
Video Quality: Custom
View Distance: 70%.
Environmental Detail: Maximum.
Texture Resolution: Maximum.
Terrain Blending: Maximum.
Ground Clutter Density: Medium
Texture Filtering: Minimum
Particle Density: Maximum.
Ground Clutter Radius: Medium.
Weather Intensity: Maximum.
Shadow Quality: Minimum.
Player Textures: Maximum
Shaders:
Specular Lighting: ON
Full-Screen Glow Effect: OFF
Death Effect: ON/OFF (User Preference)
Projected Textures: ON
Also -- another piece of the puzzle I forgot to add. When the game is up, World of Warcraft, I go between windowed mode and full screen. To do this I hit command M -- this is new, but it will flash the screen PURE WHITE before switching between the windowed mode and full screen. And vice versa the other way.

Problems with FCP and Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT video card

Not sure if this should be in the MacBook Pro forum or this one...
I am having trouble with the GeForce 8600M GT video card while editing in final cut pro (and after effects). I have talked with numerous people at applecare, but they say that they are unaware of issues regarding the video card.
The problem: It's almost like the card is unable to keep up with professional video applications. Whenever there is movement in the video I'm editing, I get lines across the screen. Not sure to how better to explain it than to say it looks like the video card is having a tough time refreshing. (I can take the same video to a much older power book, and it plays perfectly, so its not the source file.)
At first I thought it was an FCP issue, but I just started using after effects, and I'm having the same problem in there. If I edit in after effects, when I play it back (in after effects), I get the lines. I can then export the project to a quicktime file. The quicktime file plays perfectly (no lines) when not involved with a professional application. Then if I import the same quicktime file into FCP and play it back in FCP, the lines happen again.
Is anyone esle having this problem? Any thoughts? Any solutions?
Thanks!
Michael
Message was edited by: mjaffe00
Message was edited by: mjaffe00

I had searched the macbook pro forum, but not this one. It seems that the "screen tearing" issue has been talked about a lot, so I apologize for the repetitive nature of the post. I will say that I am fairly shocked that given how many people have clearly called applecare, no one there seems to have a clue that there is a problem with this video card. I have talked with at least 4 different people in the FCP specialty group, and not one had any clue what I was talking about... 3 of the 4 were fairly insistent that it was a video source issue on my side.
Message was edited by: mjaffe00

Problems with my video card maybe AMD 6750M

I am having a problem I dont know how to solve it.
My video card is having problems everytime I switch it to AMD Radeon my computer freeze. or glitch. This happend to me last week.
Chipset Model:          AMD Radeon HD 6750M
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:          x8
VRAM (Total):          1024 MB
Vendor:          ATI (0x1002)
Device ID:          0x6741
Revision ID:          0x0000
ROM Revision:          113-C0170L-573
gMux Version:          1.9.24
EFI Driver Version:          01.00.573
I have an MacBook Pro 17" Early 2011
I cant design in photoshop or edit a video, I can only Use the Built In GC.
Can I disable the other one? or fix it?
Thanks

I think it's a driver issue. See this: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W701-crash-problems/td-p/265780

K8T Neo-V, problems w/ savage agp video card (Stealth III S540)

Hi all
I have a K8T Neo-V mobo, 512 MB Kingston memory and a Stealth III S540 agp video card. The problem is that when I play any kind of video in my linux box it freezes completely the system, same thing with Windows Xp SP2. When i start Soldier of Fortune it hangs up the system. The agp card is quiet old, i know, could be this a problem with some BIOS setup like 'aperture size' and speed, and so on? Don't know about what this options means ???, maybe that's the source of the problem, who can give me some piece of advice about this, please. I'm considering getting a newer and faster agp card, but not in the near future.
Thank you

I am suprised a card that old even works as I thought those were for the original AGP setup that had different voltages.
I would really recommend grabing a newer card up and if you are just looking for a simple display maybe you can still find an old Ti4200 or such.

How can I switch between 2 installed video cards?

I have an HP Pavilion dv7-6135dx Entertainment Notebook PC, Windows 7 64-bit. It has two video cards, one is a Mobile Intel(R) HD Graphics card attached to the motherboard, the other is an AMD Radeon HD 6490M video card meant for gaming. The problem is that the computer and all the games and software I install on it only pickup on the Intel HD card, not the Radeon. I have the Catalyst Control Center for the Radeon card and it shows up in the device manager meaning the computer recognizes the card, but I can't download any drivers for the Radeon card from the Internet and nothing else seems to recognize it. This Radeon card series, 6400M, has OpenGL 4.1 and 3D graphics, the amd.com site specifically states this, but games with 3D or which require OpenGL, such as Bethesda's Brink, won't play. The errors say my graphics card does not support 3D or, in Brink's case, it doesn't have OpenGL 3.1 or higher. I'm assuming something is blocking the Radeon Card from working or I need to set the computer to use the Radeon card 24/7. Any help what so ever would be very much appreciated.

Yes I just used HP to install the drivers. It worked unlike the AMD website, but it still doesn't seem to be working. It has all the updates now, but games stil don't seem to recognize the Radeon card, just the Intel HD video card.

Crashes, sound loss, and other problems

Hello,
I have been having some serious problems over the past several months. In the past it was fairly manageable, but recently things have been getting worse.
I have a 12-inch PowerBook G4, I bought it at the McGill bookstore in October 2004. The first problem was the apparently random crashes that Mac OS X (v.10.4.8) would experience from time to time. It was fairly infrequent at first so it didn't bother me too much (and I thought it was just some sort of glitch). But it persisted and came to be expected.
What would happen is that my screen would darken and center box would appear telling me, "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button." (it would display this message in English, French, German, and Japanese for my convenience). After I restart the computer I get the message, "The computer was restarted after Mac OS X quit unexpectedly". At first it seemed to be linked to time; after a while it would just crash, sometimes after an hour or so, sometimes after as little as five minutes. (I fear as I write this that I will have to start over). More recently I've come to associate the crashes with movement of the computer; perhaps the battery (which is pretty much dead after so much use) is affecting the performance, I don't know.
The next problem, which coincided with the crashes, was my clock being reset. I assumed this was directly associated with the spontaneous shutdown of the computer, yet though the crashes continued, the clock was not always reset (just about a third of the time). This was a pretty frustrating inconvenience given the frequency of the crashes at the beginning.
The major problem that prompted me to take action was the lose of sound. One day, about a month ago now, my sound suddenly stopped working. At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but then I noticed the sound was still working with some things and just not others. For example, the sound increase/decrease indicator (the 'pop' sound when turning up or down the sound) stopped working, yet the startup sound still worked. I've found that Realplayer, MPlayer X 2, and Windows Media Player work fine but iTunes, VLC, and Quicktime don't. Most of the applications simply don't make sound but when I try to video in VLC I get the following error: "auhal: we cannot find our HAL component" or "auhal: audio-device var does not exist. device probe failed."
Other minor errors I have come across include inability to detect the Airport card (remedied upon restarting the computer) and occasional seizing up of the keyboard (the letter keys, exclusively, were unresponsive for sometime before working again suddenly without need of restart).
I've run diagnostic tools such as Disk Utility and the 'fsck' command in single-user mode, but nothing has been detected. It consistently comes up saying that everything is alright.
I have backed-up all important files and programs (with the exception of my Firefox bookmarks, do you know how I can save those?) and am prepared to do whatever it takes to bring my computer back to working order. I need my computer for schoolwork and assignments so if I can fix it myself in anyway... I would prefer to avoid lengthly repairs if possible.
Please let me know what my options are, and/or possible things I can do to repair these problems. This whole affair is, unsurprisingly, driving me crazy.
One last thing, upon launching Microsoft Word, I get the following pop-up:
Application Launch Failure
The application "Word" could not be launched because of a shared library error: "3<Microsoft Word><Microsoft Word><MicrosoftLSLibZ>"
I do not know whether this is linked to my other problems or not. This too, is something that has recently come up and is significantly affecting my work (I have had to switch to writing my essays on TextEdit).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Eric Oosenbrug
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

try shutting down, remove the battery, carefully pull out AirPort card and reinstall it.
maybe run hardware test included with CD kit

Is this a video card or other problem?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for