Looks like a faulty graphics card I’m afraid, you might be able to find a replacement logic board on eBay as it’s such an old Mac, but it would be so old that it’s likely to fail as well.
Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 25 Jul 2017, at 17:37, Andrew Tett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have had this for 11 years now. Quite proud of it, it's still useful and I > don't have the money to upgrade at the moment, so for now I keep it going as > long as possible. > > But, it's throwing a few tantrums and I doubt if it will keep going much > longer. Already, the internal display is unreliable and I have connected an > external Dell screen which has actually increased the display are quite a > lot, for which I am grateful. Attached is a picture of what it started doing > this afternoon: > > The screen suddenly went very bad - like really bad television interference > and ghosting. Not easy to work with. Active windows were clean each time > they refresh but soon became unreadable. > > Shutting down and restarting it did not solve the problem but pressing > "Detect Displays" did. Great - but I have to do it each time I power the > machine up. What's happened? I will keep on giving it a hand with the fire > up each time I use it by pressing Detect Displays but I would be interested > to know what has caused this and if it can be simply remedied. > > Please see attached screen grab/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > <1 copy.png> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
