[MellowSmokeMan]

Hello friends,

I am running OS 10.3.3 on a Quicksilver dual 1gig G4. The computer is my "music only" machine, and hasn't been wired to the web in over a year. I was running a project in Logic 6, and my firewire drive was buzzing a little loud, and not thinking, I switched it off before ejecting the disc. This is the only out of the ordinary thing I did before this problem happened.

The computer continued to work fine on Logic, the only program I was running, until I got up the next day and woke up from display sleep. I keep my computers running 24/7 in the studio.

So here's what happened. Logic was still up there, but had crashed, and there was a bunch of strange pixelizations on both screens. Kind of like pixel smudges in staright lines. I have two 17" apple displays. Both were affected but both had different stuff going on. When I restart I get the "multi-lingual" restart box every time. I restarted with the Panther disc and ran disc utility with no results. I have a feeling there is something whacky going on with the video card.

Below are a few screennshots. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[removed oversize images and replaced with links cuz you're new here. but follow the rules in the future. --tooki]
http://members.aol.com/mellowsmokeman/screen1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/mellowsmokeman/screen2.jpg
http://members.aol.com/mellowsmokeman/screen3.jpg

Thank you,

-MSM

[bowwowman]

thats a kernel panic, and is indicitive of hardware problems. And it does look like the video card is wacky, or possibly the monitors themselves. Best thing to test it is to connect another monitor & see if the problems still exist, and/or connect your monitors to another computer, to rule them out....and check the cables too

Turning off the FW drive w/o ejecting could have fubarred it, so try starting up without the drive connected....perhaps thats where things started going downhill......

[MellowSmokeMan]

Sorry to admin about the pictures.

Speaking of these screenshots. Have any of you actually seen something that looks just like this?

[MellowSmokeMan]

What do you guys think about the possibility of fried RAM or VRAM?

[zizban]

I am having a similliar problem--only my quicksilver freezes when I try to play a 3d game of any kind.

[mhuie]

Originally Posted by zizban

I am having a similliar problem--only my quicksilver freezes when I try to play a 3d game of any kind.

I don't think its a video problem. On my new G5, I have gotten similar effects (twice) to the first screen shot, sans KP. This happened when it went to sleep. I've swapped out the video card, and I got it once again. I don't think its a hardware issue.

[tooki]

First of all, you can securely rule out the displays. They are not at fault.

My first guess would be graphics card drivers. Perhaps a fresh install of Mac OS X (updated with the latest updates) is in order.

tooki

[Todd Madson]

That's what I was thinking: shutting the drive off before ejecting the disc very likely caused
corruption on the disc itself, damaging the contents of the disc.

If rebooting continues that perhaps shutting everything down, making sure your video card
and drive power and data cables are snugly affixed and try again.

Could very well be hardware I hate to say it. Being the owner of a studio myself I hate to
see stuff like this.

Good luck.