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Anyone have this problem with a 285

irishgrizzly

irishgrizzly

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5 seconds of old TV style interference. Has happened twice since I've been using it over the last 3 weeks. It only happens on the Mac OS side and only on one of my monitors. I'm going to reseat the leads in a bit to see if that stops it.
 
I had a look at my cables and found something strange. Attached to my main monitor I've got a apple DVI adapter. What confuses is that it's a DVI to DVI. I must have got this with the original 8800. Any idea why this would have been needed? Perhaps it's not needed anymore...
 
irishgrizzly said:
I had a look at my cables and found something strange. Attached to my main monitor I've got a apple DVI adapter. What confuses is that it's a DVI to DVI. I must have got this with the original 8800. Any idea why this would have been needed? Perhaps it's not needed anymore...
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The DVI to DVI cable is included because some connectors does not fit properly to a video card at the back of a Mac Pro. They are too wide.
 
The snow thing happens with all cards on all 2009 MPs. It happens with my 4870 and it happens with other peoples GT120s. I think it's a driver or firmware issue deep in the system.
 
Abidubi said:
The snow thing happens with all cards on all 2009 MPs. It happens with my 4870 and it happens with other peoples GT120s. I think it's a driver or firmware issue deep in the system.
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I've got a '08. So it's a driver issue that will be addressed with an update? If so I'm relieved it's not a faulty card.
 
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