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So here I am last night, using my G4 Sawtooth (400mhz, 512mbram/16mb Rage 128 Pro), everything works great, and has been for the past, I don't know, 6 months? Then out of the blue, the system freezes, the dock icon for MSN was frozen as it bounced.
I tried cmd+opt+esc to force quit it, thinking MSN had frozen, then I noticed the cursor wasn't moving. So figuring that I can't revive this from its current state, I hold the power button down to shut it off.
I hit the power button again, I get the "bahhh" sound, the drives turn on, everything sounds as if it would, but nothing displays on my screen (BenQ 17" LCD). I tried a different vga monitor cable, same thing. Tried both vga cables on my 21" widescreen Flatron as well, same thing, no picture, but it sounds like it has the entire time I've owned it.
So I'm thinking the video card might be toast, but I'm not sure. I have no way to test it or anything. It has a 20gb system drive, 160gb storage, and a 120gb storage drive, and an LG DVD super drive as well.
I unplugged everything but the system drive, thinking it might be sucking too much power, but it does the same thing, no picture.
Should I buy a cheap, used video card to see if it's the culprit? Or is my machine toast? Should I swap the PSU (it does take a standard ATX psu by the way). Any thoughts? Suggestions? I'd really hate to see this machine go to waste.
I tried cmd+opt+esc to force quit it, thinking MSN had frozen, then I noticed the cursor wasn't moving. So figuring that I can't revive this from its current state, I hold the power button down to shut it off.
I hit the power button again, I get the "bahhh" sound, the drives turn on, everything sounds as if it would, but nothing displays on my screen (BenQ 17" LCD). I tried a different vga monitor cable, same thing. Tried both vga cables on my 21" widescreen Flatron as well, same thing, no picture, but it sounds like it has the entire time I've owned it.
So I'm thinking the video card might be toast, but I'm not sure. I have no way to test it or anything. It has a 20gb system drive, 160gb storage, and a 120gb storage drive, and an LG DVD super drive as well.
I unplugged everything but the system drive, thinking it might be sucking too much power, but it does the same thing, no picture.
Should I buy a cheap, used video card to see if it's the culprit? Or is my machine toast? Should I swap the PSU (it does take a standard ATX psu by the way). Any thoughts? Suggestions? I'd really hate to see this machine go to waste.