Righteous Bubba: Death of a Graphics Card?

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Death of a Graphics Card?

I'm getting irritating artifacts on my screen:

Anyone seen this before? I've got a dual G5 Mac with an ATI X800 XT card and I figger that's dying.

5 comments:

Mendacious D said...: Overheating, maybe. The onboard fans get sticky after a few years and may need cleaning.

Also, my CAPTCHA text is 'healig' for this comment. Portentious!; 11/04/2008 08:23:00 a.m.
Righteous Bubba said...: Yeah, I've removed the card and blown the dust out. No real improvements yet.; 11/04/2008 08:44:00 a.m.
zombie rotten mcdonald said...: did you vote yet? maybe you've got a vote clogging up your tubes...; 11/04/2008 09:17:00 a.m.
Righteous Bubba said...: Vote?; 11/04/2008 09:45:00 a.m.
zombie rotten mcdonald said...: or is that tomorrow?; 11/04/2008 11:55:00 a.m.

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