A follow-up to the Mac Pro video artifacts problem…
Yesterday I posted about the weird video artifacts I was seeing on my display.
On a hunch, I opened the case of my Mac Pro yesterday afternoon. Sure enough, dust was everywhere inside the case, especially on the video card. I gave a few blasts of compressed air to the video card (and surroundings) to clear the dust out. I powered up my Mac. The video artifacts that had plagued my system before were no longer there.
Flash forward 12 hours later, and my machine is still behaving. It would seem that the video problems have gone away. An article on Macworld seemed to confirm the experience.
Moral of the story: I need to clean the inside of the Mac more often.
-Krishna
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Antoine
March 12, 2009 at 4:35 pmHA! Told you so!
Glad to see you are fine and won’t have to replace it :)
Manuel
March 12, 2009 at 5:18 pmphotos before/after?
krishna
March 12, 2009 at 5:42 pmWish I did, Manuel.( I dusted the card off while it was still attached to the motherboard. )
Rick
March 16, 2009 at 1:56 amKeep the machine at least a foot from the floor, and dust will be much less of a problem. I recommend welded-wire shelving, like Metro-shelving, with the computers on the 2nd or 3rd shelf, 2 to 3 feet off the floor. I’ve opened friends’ computers that were on carpeted floors and found them actually packed full of dust…