Hey Guys,
To deal with the issue caused by overheating GPU's on the ATI Radeon 1600 cards I have been functioning with my 2006 17" imac ati 1600 for the last year by going back to 10.4.11 and removing the ati drivers and using fan control. This has limped it along as an email and safari machine but nothing more.
as a separate issue i am having my lcd screen replaced by apple because of the lcd failures ( i managed to get that out of them because i had called and complained previously) they replaced some of these screen under a certain program last year (2010).
while its open i am going to have the tech re-apply the thermal paste on the gpu and i am contemplating having him drill some extra vent holes like i have seen in some of the other fixes pages.( not sure about this)
my question is this- if non of these things get me fully functioning with my ati drivers back(as original) i was considering using this imac as a file server only. if i disable the drivers and set the display to sleep after 1 minute (while never sleeping the hard drives or computer) will it still have issues? i mean are the issues with overheating the gpu tied to the display? therefore having the cpu work while the display sleeps would remedy the spinning balls of death?
or am i not understanding the way the heating happens?
any info would be great guys.
thanks
To deal with the issue caused by overheating GPU's on the ATI Radeon 1600 cards I have been functioning with my 2006 17" imac ati 1600 for the last year by going back to 10.4.11 and removing the ati drivers and using fan control. This has limped it along as an email and safari machine but nothing more.
as a separate issue i am having my lcd screen replaced by apple because of the lcd failures ( i managed to get that out of them because i had called and complained previously) they replaced some of these screen under a certain program last year (2010).
while its open i am going to have the tech re-apply the thermal paste on the gpu and i am contemplating having him drill some extra vent holes like i have seen in some of the other fixes pages.( not sure about this)
my question is this- if non of these things get me fully functioning with my ati drivers back(as original) i was considering using this imac as a file server only. if i disable the drivers and set the display to sleep after 1 minute (while never sleeping the hard drives or computer) will it still have issues? i mean are the issues with overheating the gpu tied to the display? therefore having the cpu work while the display sleeps would remedy the spinning balls of death?
or am i not understanding the way the heating happens?
any info would be great guys.
thanks