Melted video card?

External Since: Jun 26, 2003 Posts: 6

My Power Mac G4 would not boot yesterday. The first symptom was
scrambled video upon boot to the login screen. Clearing PRAM didn't
help.

Upon opening the case, I found the nVidia video card was very visibly
warped -- like it had overheated, deformed, and then cooled
maintaining that shape.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Can a video card actually
get hot enough to do this?

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Michael

External Since: Oct 02, 2003 Posts: 97

In article <1q6nfv8kbarlk0cki2kjqfm54kvrqoh2fp.RemoveThis@4ax.com>,
Michael McCulloch <michaelm.RemoveThis@nospam.invalid.net> wrote:

> My Power Mac G4 would not boot yesterday. The first symptom was
> scrambled video upon boot to the login screen. Clearing PRAM didn't
> help.
>
> Upon opening the case, I found the nVidia video card was very visibly
> warped -- like it had overheated, deformed, and then cooled
> maintaining that shape.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this before? Can a video card actually
> get hot enough to do this?

Are you using a Mirrored Drive Doors G4? There have been reports of
overheating PCI cards in those machines, especially since they sit
directly over the processor. Not that bad though.

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Chicago, IL
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