Before I drag all this stuff to a Mac Repair place before my Apple Care runs out on Dec. 10th, I thought to ask here to see if there are any suggestions.
It's a 3 year old Mac Pro Quad core 3 GHz Intel Xeon running OSX 10.6.5. (This problem has persisted and also happened with the previous OSX). ATY, Readeon1900 graphics card VRAM-512 Mb. Two 30" Mac Cinema 32bit Color run as continuous screen space. Main Mac start up drive is 250 gig, second drive is 500 gig and is kept relatively clear for a scratch disk, 3rd drive is 500 gig, 4th drive is 1 terabyte.
Basically, if I shut down the computer (not sleep mode), and fire it up later, the screens won't fire up at all. Oddly, if I do a restart, they do fire up no problem.
I've run all the maintenance programs including using the start-up disc, completely cleaned the insides, etc. etc. No joy.
Since I've run the dual monitors for the entire 3 years, I'm thinking the graphics card is petering out.
Thoughts?
-Marc
It's a 3 year old Mac Pro Quad core 3 GHz Intel Xeon running OSX 10.6.5. (This problem has persisted and also happened with the previous OSX). ATY, Readeon1900 graphics card VRAM-512 Mb. Two 30" Mac Cinema 32bit Color run as continuous screen space. Main Mac start up drive is 250 gig, second drive is 500 gig and is kept relatively clear for a scratch disk, 3rd drive is 500 gig, 4th drive is 1 terabyte.
Basically, if I shut down the computer (not sleep mode), and fire it up later, the screens won't fire up at all. Oddly, if I do a restart, they do fire up no problem.
I've run all the maintenance programs including using the start-up disc, completely cleaned the insides, etc. etc. No joy.
Since I've run the dual monitors for the entire 3 years, I'm thinking the graphics card is petering out.
Thoughts?
-Marc