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Twin monitor wierdness: are they dying????
FCP on mac twin G5 tower, twin Apple Cinema displays are acting funky. Vertical “columns”, regularly spaced, made up of very fine blue vertical lines are arrayed across both monitors. I see this while they are in screensaver mode. When in FCP, two tiny horizontal bands made up of short, fine white lines follow the cursor arrow and any icon or picon you mouse over gets this little banding across it top and bottom. Reboots and power cyclings and resetting video peferences for the monitors have not dispelled it. I’m thinking these are only two years old or so, but have been on daily since we got them. This just started today. Any ideas at all? I can perhaps take a picture and email it to somebody for a visual diagnosis…
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Have you tried re-seeding the video card? If you have an extra video card, try switching it out.
Good Luck,
John Czerwinski
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also try connecting the monitors to a different computer if the issue persists then it is defiantly the monitor, it if only happens connected to your computer then it is most likely the video card.
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Update: Our engineer finally got the time to open up the dual G5 tower and peek inside. The ATI graphics card has a hole burned thru it clear thru to the other side, a charred area in the circuit board about the size of a US dime, in the area of what looks like a long silver bus bar, on the side of the board opposite the cooling fan. What amazes me is, this board was still working for several days at essentially 90 percent capacity or better, something I myself would not be able to do with such a hole burned thru ME.
We’re trying to figure out if this was just a faulty board, lightning damage (system is on a UPS, but I don’t know about surge protection on it) or what. The rest of the system seems unaffected: we swapped cards with an identical FCP workstation and all is like new. Card is about 2 years old, think we’ll get warranty service on it? Anybody else have expereince seeing ATI cards imitating Drew Barrymore in a bad Steven King movie adaptation?
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WOW that is crazy.
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