Mac Pro (Old but Still Powerful) – no Video Signal: Graphics Card Replacement Sheffield

30th January 2016 By Sheffield Computer Services

We had an old beast of a machine in the workshop for repair today – a Mac Pro “Quad Core” 3.0GHz Intel Xeon 5160. The diagnosis at the Apple shop was a faulty graphics card but they wouldn’t work on it because it was ‘Obsolete’ being made n 2008.

Despite being somewhat old we discussed the option of upgrading the graphics card but decided to go for a straight swap because the workstation graphics weren’t being utilised much anyway. We sourced a replacement ATI Radeon x1900 XT 512MB from our suppliers and got it working again. We also checked over the OS doing all the necessary maintenance after 8 years of work.

Apple Mac Pro 2008
Case opened up
Graphics card removed (it’s a tricky removal)
Offending graphics card to be replaced.

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