[Macpartners] PowerMac G5 video card

[Allan Doyle]

On Feb 29, 2008, at 11:06 AM, John Kane wrote:

> Allan,k
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> 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.

Good idea. I keep forgetting that Macs have that little battery. I  
took the machine to IS&T yesterday so we'll see what they come up with.

	Allan

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> John
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> 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.
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>> 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
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>> I have a newer G5 system which has an incompatible card, so I think  
>> the range of cards that will work is fairly narrow.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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Allan Doyle
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