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ksuther · Jul 28, 2004, 07:31 PM

I've been looking around to see if anyone has had this problem, but I haven't found any other cases of it.
Ever since 10.2.8 was released, including all the 10.3.x series, my graphics card doesn't seem to render things properly at all.

Take a look at these shots: http://ksuther.dyndns.org/tearing/

Every icon in my dock, icons in the menubar, and all over windows you can see little scars where something is obviously not drawing properly. This is with Quartz Extreme on, and when I disable it everything seems to work fine, so I'm assuming it's strictly a problem with the graphics card. Also when playing DVDs in DVD Player I get a mass of green lines zipping all around the image.

I'm running a Rev B. TiBook 667 with 512 RAM.

Anybody else have any experiences or problems similar to this? I'm thinking I should call up Apple and have it repaired before my AppleCare warranty runs out.

Any ideas/suggestions/experiences appreciated. Thanks.

sideus · Jul 28, 2004, 07:33 PM

That looks like a possible bad video card, but I'm not sure.

gperks · Jul 29, 2004, 10:28 AM

Call AppleCare. Looks like a faulty video card. Don't worry, AC are friendly and the turnaround is super-fast.

ksuther · Jul 29, 2004, 12:21 PM

Originally posted by gperks:
Call AppleCare. Looks like a faulty video card. Don't worry, AC are friendly and the turnaround is super-fast.

Yes, they are, super-fast for the 5th time

. I guess I'll call them up, I've been living with it for a very long while, thinking it was a software problem.

EnVoy · Jul 29, 2004, 12:58 PM

Not an answer, but what is that app/icon with the Dorado, Shiira?
Nice icon...

VEGAN · Jul 29, 2004, 01:32 PM

Originally posted by EnVoy:
Not an answer, but what is that app/icon with the Dorado, Shiira?
Nice icon...

It's a cool project by some Japanese guy(s) making a webbrowser. It's based on the same engine as Safari but some stuff is cooler. [Some doesn't yet work that well.] Over all it's fast and OK

Fonzie · Jul 29, 2004, 01:54 PM

Originally posted by EnVoy:
Not an answer, but what is that app/icon with the Dorado, Shiira?
Nice icon...

The site: http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/index-e.html

I recently dropped this app because it crashed whenever I closed the browser on the close-widget - Apple-w worked fine at times. So I'm back on Safari, with buttons that actually match my theme(iStyle). Plus, Shiira is an example of features overtaking the app.

EnVoy · Jul 29, 2004, 04:32 PM

Actually, I just was interested in the icon. Cool if there was a whole set like that...

tooki · Jul 29, 2004, 07:35 PM

FWIW, the visual glitches you took are not "tearing" -- tearing is a very specific type of glitch formed by an incongruence between the display's refresh rate and the display system's frame rate.

tooki

Devin Lane · Jul 29, 2004, 07:42 PM

Have you checked the connection from your display to your video card, and your video card to your AGP slot? I have had some weird things happen when the connection isn't screwed in ALL the way.

Person Man · Jul 30, 2004, 11:35 AM

Originally posted by Devin Lane:
Have you checked the connection from your display to your video card, and your video card to your AGP slot? I have had some weird things happen when the connection isn't screwed in ALL the way.

He can't do that. He has a PowerBook.

ksuther · Jul 30, 2004, 05:50 PM

Originally posted by tooki:
FWIW, the visual glitches you took are not "tearing" -- tearing is a very specific type of glitch formed by an incongruence between the display's refresh rate and the display system's frame rate.

tooki

Apologies. Ripping, uglyness, annoying, perhaps?

I called up AppleCare, and they had me take out RAM, reset the PMU lots, and then reformat before letting me send it back. So bye bye TiBook for a few days