Well I went and got a new graphics card as planned, however I have just determined the problem is not the graphics card, but it the CPU since the protection is kicking in and everything else is powering up correctly. So it looks like I bought a new graphics card for no reason. I really can’t be asked with fixing this problem all I really need is a Mac Mini and loads of storage, it will free up space on the floor and make it cooler if I go to a more compact PC. At the moment my Powerbook is back in the driving seat, which also is showing its age, and I occasionally get some slow down. I don’t even want to think about how I shrink and re-encode video on a Mac right now.
Now that Mati is working at Sky TV, I think I’m going to drop cable and go to satelite or better still get a DVB-S card for the HTPC so I can record TV. Both of my Windows PCs are out of action, the linux fileserver is fine, as it the ThinkPad. Perhaps I will ebay the lot of them and get a new Power Mac when they come out.
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