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Mac Pro or dead?
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ActionableMango
macrumors G3
thekev
macrumors 604
Fire 4 video card! ARRRRR!
All joking aside, this is much better than a dead mac pro, and you could take the opportunity to upgrade to an OpenCL compatible card if you wish. Artifacts like this are extremely typical of video card death. You'll be back up and running within $200 or so. If you want to upgrade instead, someone will still buy your machine even if you say it needs a new gpu.
All joking aside, this is much better than a dead mac pro, and you could take the opportunity to upgrade to an OpenCL compatible card if you wish. Artifacts like this are extremely typical of video card death. You'll be back up and running within $200 or so. If you want to upgrade instead, someone will still buy your machine even if you say it needs a new gpu.
mobilehaathi
macrumors G3
thekev
macrumors 604
Baked!
Well I baked the card (for the second time) and it works... hooray!
See this video if you want to attempt the oven reflow trick:
http://youtu.be/T7um_hZYom4
I wonder how many times I'll get away with the ol' oven trick...
Well I baked the card (for the second time) and it works... hooray!
See this video if you want to attempt the oven reflow trick:
http://youtu.be/T7um_hZYom4
I wonder how many times I'll get away with the ol' oven trick...
mobilehaathi
macrumors G3
Looks a lot like what happened to an iMac I used to own. Mine was more like parallel black-and-white staircases, if you can picture it.
I called AppleCare, who advised me to reinstall OS X. I did so, and it hasn't happened since - either to me, or to the guy I sold it to.
I called AppleCare, who advised me to reinstall OS X. I did so, and it hasn't happened since - either to me, or to the guy I sold it to.