Hi all,
About a month ago I bought a G5 1.6. It runs great and I was looking at upgrades. But then a collegue of mine gave me a broken G5 2.0. He stated that the Logic Board was broken and it could not be fixed. It has 1,5 gb of ram (ddr3200) and a Nvidea FX6800 Ultra. I hooked it up and I got the apple logo and chime and then a gray screen with popup stating that I needed to restart the mac.
So yesterday I switched the graphics card from the 2.0 to the 1.6, but then my 1.6 mac does not start anymore. I get the gray screen, stating that I have to restart my mac. Tried it a couple of times, but no luck. So now I am suspecting that the videocard is faulty. I therefore tried the FX5200 that I had put in the 2.0 to see if it would start and guess what.... it did! However the colors are pretty screwed up: the green and yellow both look yellowish and the blue is a bit faded to gray. So I tried changing the display settings, but no luck (it does get a bit better, but not as beautiful as with the fx5200 in the 1.6 G5).
Could someone tell me if I am doing something wrong or that these issues are related to the logic board of the 2.0?
Since the FX6800 is not working on the 1.6 or 2.0 one, I believe that that card is faulty, so I guess I cannot upgrade the videocard. Or could there be another reason? It does have a signal to the screen, but when I put it in either one G5's I get the gray screen......
Thanks in advance.
Patrick
About a month ago I bought a G5 1.6. It runs great and I was looking at upgrades. But then a collegue of mine gave me a broken G5 2.0. He stated that the Logic Board was broken and it could not be fixed. It has 1,5 gb of ram (ddr3200) and a Nvidea FX6800 Ultra. I hooked it up and I got the apple logo and chime and then a gray screen with popup stating that I needed to restart the mac.
So yesterday I switched the graphics card from the 2.0 to the 1.6, but then my 1.6 mac does not start anymore. I get the gray screen, stating that I have to restart my mac. Tried it a couple of times, but no luck. So now I am suspecting that the videocard is faulty. I therefore tried the FX5200 that I had put in the 2.0 to see if it would start and guess what.... it did! However the colors are pretty screwed up: the green and yellow both look yellowish and the blue is a bit faded to gray. So I tried changing the display settings, but no luck (it does get a bit better, but not as beautiful as with the fx5200 in the 1.6 G5).
Could someone tell me if I am doing something wrong or that these issues are related to the logic board of the 2.0?
Since the FX6800 is not working on the 1.6 or 2.0 one, I believe that that card is faulty, so I guess I cannot upgrade the videocard. Or could there be another reason? It does have a signal to the screen, but when I put it in either one G5's I get the gray screen......
Thanks in advance.
Patrick
