Re: Bad Video Card?

On Feb 4, 1:49 pm, Valter Prahlad wrote: > Il giorno 4-02-2012 10:54, pdimage ha scritto: > > > Both the X800 and the X850 will convert to mac but I gather they are > > very troublesome and the dvi port never works as far as I know. > > As far as I can remember, the problem with a flashed PC X80

Re: G5 issues

Dan, your critiques of my lack of procedure are spot-on and I apologise. It is likely the primary cause for my current state of disarray, having had 3 machines that I relied on professionally, but did NOT know how to properly maintain, fall apart in various ways over the last 18 months,

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:30 PM, JohnV wrote: The video-card swap was a no-go. Don;t know why, but the machine would not boot past Blue Screens. Put original card back and it's fine. You need to Safe Boot to reset the caches. To Safe Boot you hold the Shift key at startup. -- You received thi

Re: G5 issues

At 1:54 PM -0500 2/5/2012, JohnV wrote: When a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives into a 1.8GHz G5 (2G mem) Did you clear and rebuild the kernel and system caches after you moved the drives? and am really surprised at what seems to be its lack of performance... just do

Re: G5 issues

On 2012/02/05 12:58, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: I don't know? On LEM-Swap there are three power supplies available right now for only $30 each, buy one NOW before they're gone!!!: Wow, it's magic. If I a

Re: G5 issues

The video-card swap was a no-go. Don;t know why, but the machine would not boot past Blue Screens. Put original card back and it's fine. On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: Other question is can I swap the power supplies, even short term, to see if that is the real propblem with

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:53 PM, JohnV wrote: the 1.8 has 4 RAM slots the 2.0 has 8 slots Are the RAM sticks different size, and swappable? They should both be compatible with PC3200, so as long as they're matched pairs, no problems. Other question is can I swap the power supplies, even short

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:25 PM, JohnV wrote: SORRY... IS AS FOLLOWS The FX5200 is a minimal 64MB video card, while the Radeon is at least 128MB, perhaps 256MB, and a little faster also. Swap in the Radeon video card. and since they both use PC

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:25 PM, JohnV wrote: SORRY... IS AS FOLLOWS The FX5200 is a minimal 64MB video card, while the Radeon is at least 128MB, perhaps 256MB, and a little faster also. Swap in the Radeon video card. and since they both use PC3200 RAM you can also swap in some more RAM from

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: You need to max out both the RAM and the video card on the new one. Hopefully you can move the RAM & video card from the dead 2.0 over to the 1.8 without issues. If the 1.8 is a single, you may be able to upgrade to a dual CPU, but that migh

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 12:54 PM, JohnV wrote: When a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives into a 1.8GHz G5 (2G mem) and am really surprised at what seems to be its lack of performance... just doing youtube stuff, even without enlarging the playback, it stutters every 3sec o

G5 issues

When a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives into a 1.8GHz G5 (2G mem) and am really surprised at what seems to be its lack of performance... just doing youtube stuff, even without enlarging the playback, it stutters every 3sec or so on playback. Making it larger makes i