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My System Took a Dump! Thoughts?
Hi all,
I'm running a Mix3 system, OS 10.3.9, PT 6.4.1cs4, on a dual 1Ghz processor G4 with 1.5 gig of ram. Tonight I was working through a mix session when, with the system at idle (no playback, editing, processing, anything), both of my displays went to a solid pattern of tiny grey squares and the entire system froze--C24 went offline, the displays remained frozen, and no key commands had any effect. I had to turn off the system by holding the power button to shut it down. I unplugged the CPU and let it sit for a few minutes, but when I tried turning it on again, the CPU powered up and made the apple sound, but the displays never woke up. At first I thought it could be a video card issue, but I didn't think a vid card failure could lock a whole system up and freeze it, etc... I opened the CPU case and turned the system on--my core and farm cards have a yellow LED lit at the end of the card closest to the back of the case. Not sure if that's a good thing, but everything seems to be seated properly and dust-free. Anyone have any ideas or experience in a situation like this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks J Update: I removed the vid card and switched it out with another I had on hand. Problem solved. Guess a bad vid card CAN make a whole system geek out. |
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Re: My System Took a Dump! Thoughts?
Hi,
A tip on video cards: Using the old 32meg Nvidia AGP cards (which can drive 2 big monitors) or one similar to it, will yield best performance on these MIX systems, as the PCI bandwidth will be much less than a newer fast AGP video card. I made this mistake a few years back when I put a nice 256 meg ATI AGP in there, and the PCI meter (in combination with my chassis) went through the roof. YMMV, Best Walt
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