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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Vertical Black Bar on Start Up - MacPro 2.66 Intel Zeon Quad - 6GB RAM
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1149105" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Problems like that with the screen, almost always: </p><p></p><p>If the issue shows up in a screen shot, it's the video card.</p><p>If the issue doesn't show up in a screen shot, it's the display.</p><p></p><p>Never had a MacPro, but can't be any harder than buying a new video card, pulling the old one, popping in the new one along with the drivers. The cards are just more expensive than their windows counterparts, but not too bad. The new ATI 5770 w/1GB is $250 at OWC. You might be able to find the GT 120 or the HD 4870 that shipped with your machine a little cheaper.</p><p></p><p>You can pop your original OS X disc in the machine and run the <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509" target="_blank"> Apple Hardware test</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1149105, member: 24160"] Problems like that with the screen, almost always: If the issue shows up in a screen shot, it's the video card. If the issue doesn't show up in a screen shot, it's the display. Never had a MacPro, but can't be any harder than buying a new video card, pulling the old one, popping in the new one along with the drivers. The cards are just more expensive than their windows counterparts, but not too bad. The new ATI 5770 w/1GB is $250 at OWC. You might be able to find the GT 120 or the HD 4870 that shipped with your machine a little cheaper. You can pop your original OS X disc in the machine and run the [URL="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509"] Apple Hardware test[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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