MP 6,1 Did my traschcan just die?

[fiatlux]

My son was working on a doc on my old MP6,1 when it crashed with a purple screen. Trying to reboot it, it hangs with the progress bar one third of the way through. Display is also partly corrupted.

I tried entering the recovery mode or resetting the NVRAM but I always end up with the same behaviour (hanging on boot screen).

Did it just turn into a pretty paperweight?

 

[Spock]

Looks like a graphics card error to me.. Have you tried resetting SMC and all that good stuff?

 

[fiatlux]

Yep, no result at all. Even the diagnostic (D at startup) did not work. Luckily the target mode would work, I managed to salvage my son’s doc which he needed to submit to university tonight.

 

[Flint Ironstag]

Leave it unplugged overnight. Might get lucky.

 

[richmlow]

My son was working on a doc on my old MP6,1 when it crashed with a purple screen. Trying to reboot it, it hangs with the progress bar one third of the way through. Display is also partly corrupted.

I tried entering the recovery mode or resetting the NVRAM but I always end up with the same behaviour (hanging on boot screen).

Did it just turn into a pretty paperweight?

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As someone else mentioned....it looks like graphics card problem. If so, it might be prohibitively too expensive to replace it.

Maybe, it's time for a new Mac!?

Good luck with the entire situation.


richmlow

 

[macguru9999]

Yes, its dead. and unless the graphics cards have come down alot its not worth fixing

 

[krakman]

you can try taking the cover off and giving it a good clean, they can trap a lot of dust inside. I had a problem with a stick of RAM not working in a Mac Pro 5.1 and it turned out a bit of dust was shorting out the pins.

As Macguru said, spare parts for the 6.1 are very expensive and troubleshooting is not that easy.

 

[Graham Caracas]

Thanks dad.

 

[DouglasCarroll]

Wow, sorry this happened.

Bummer