[Macpartners] PowerMac G5 video card

[John Kane]

Allan,k

Sorry, I don't have a video card for any thing that new.  But, I had 
the same problem with a year old mac about 10 years ago.  It turned 
out that the batt. was dead.  Did you check the batt?  Hope this 
helps.

John




At 1:03 PM -0500 2/27/08, Allan Doyle wrote:
>Before I haul my system over to N42 (admittedly a short trip for me), 
>I wonder whether anyone has a spare graphics card I can beg or borrow.
>
>I'm looking for an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB DDR SDRAM 
>for a PowerMac G5, 1.8 GHz:
>    http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/Power_Mac_G5.html
>
>I have a newer G5 system which has an incompatible card, so I think 
>the range of cards that will work is fairly narrow.
>
>I'm fairly certain that the video card is the culprit. The system 
>makes all the right booting noises, and I managed to get one more gasp 
>of video when I took the card out and plugged it back in. I'm guessing 
>there's possibly a bad solder joint or something.
>
>If anyone has a card I can try out and then return back to you, that 
>would be useful. If anyone has one they just want to outright get rid 
>of, that would be even better (assuming that's the problem).
>
>Thanks,
>
>	Allan
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>Allan Doyle
>Director of Technology
>MIT Museum
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