[rescue] Weird Silicon Graphics o2 graphics issues

[Kurt Huhn]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:31:22 +1000
Benjamin Gardiner wrote:

> what seems to happen is the "whole" image isn't displayed but the
> first section of the image, then it repeats, with the dog image its
> pretty much half, but it can be a third.  With image view, to get it
> to display this behavior I have to resize the image.
> 
> the best explanation would be this screen capture here:
> <http://www.carnagevisors.net/images/image1.jpeg>
> 

That doesn't look good.  It points to an addressing problem in memory or
perhaps a problem with the graphics chipset.  From what you describe,
this only happens when you're doing texture - and that's not a happy
thing when dealing with O2s.

Since you say it lived through replacing RAM and a reinstall of the OS,
it's most certainly a hardware problem - and since the graphics chipset
of an O2 is on the systemboard, the only recourse is to replace the
systemboard.

I could be wrong, but my gut doesn't steer me wrong too often.

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