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Apple Computing Products:
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Is this a fried video card?
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<blockquote data-quote="markyf" data-source="post: 1286165" data-attributes="member: 212455"><p>Thanks for the reply. It was purchased in July 2007. I took possession around June 2008. So I've been using it for 3+ years with no performance issues. For awhile, it had an issue where it wouldn't fall asleep, but that solved itself about six months ago.</p><p></p><p>The only other thing I can think of that I've been doing differently is lately, I've been putting my whole cd collection into Itunes and also deleting a lot of old, and sometimes very big, video files.</p><p></p><p>But again, my suspicion is the video card. It starts up fine, makes the usual noises, the fan comes on, etc... Through this garbled screen I can make out the grey splash screen and the Apple spinning wheel, which loads ok. It's when the desktop comes on (hence the blue background -- my desktop is blue) that it seems to stop booting. I can make out the mouse through the screen but it doesn't move. </p><p></p><p>I will probably take into Computer Systems Centre here in Toronto tomorrow. They are an Apple service centre. From what I've read, they can pull out the video card and boot the computer through a second computer and see that it's working fine. I was just hoping that someone here would recognize the issue via the jpeg and say conclusively that yes, they've seen that before and it's the video card. I guess I'm just impatient!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="markyf, post: 1286165, member: 212455"] Thanks for the reply. It was purchased in July 2007. I took possession around June 2008. So I've been using it for 3+ years with no performance issues. For awhile, it had an issue where it wouldn't fall asleep, but that solved itself about six months ago. The only other thing I can think of that I've been doing differently is lately, I've been putting my whole cd collection into Itunes and also deleting a lot of old, and sometimes very big, video files. But again, my suspicion is the video card. It starts up fine, makes the usual noises, the fan comes on, etc... Through this garbled screen I can make out the grey splash screen and the Apple spinning wheel, which loads ok. It's when the desktop comes on (hence the blue background -- my desktop is blue) that it seems to stop booting. I can make out the mouse through the screen but it doesn't move. I will probably take into Computer Systems Centre here in Toronto tomorrow. They are an Apple service centre. From what I've read, they can pull out the video card and boot the computer through a second computer and see that it's working fine. I was just hoping that someone here would recognize the issue via the jpeg and say conclusively that yes, they've seen that before and it's the video card. I guess I'm just impatient! [/QUOTE]
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